PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. Stores As Social Centers.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are constantly examining ways to make their customers’ accounts more secure, especially as more consumers go online to make purchases and transact during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It also found that just 16 percent of U.S. Deep Dive: The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Using SMS-Based Verification.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 16, 2018

Bank of America will invest about $75 million per quarter in technology from now through the rest of 2019, the bank reported in its earnings call today.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Bank of America seeks electronification of cash not only as way to better serve its banking customers but also as an excellent way to reduce costs: according to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, this digitization of cash can save the bank billions of dollars.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In an effort to bring customers an easier and more streamlined online car buying experience, Carvana, an online-only used car dealer, has teamed up with Bank of America, according to a release from the companies. “We Customers can go on Bank of America’s car shopping tool from a phone or computer and select a Carvana vehicle.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform Afterpay is teaming up with retailer Gap to offer flexible spending options as the holiday shopping season gears up. When consumers shop Gap brands online, they can choose Afterpay at checkout and pay for purchases in four interest-free installments. “We We are proud to partner with Gap Inc.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 18, 2018

billion acquisition of Swedish small business commerce platform iZettle will boost its presence in 12 markets across European and Latin America, particularly in the physical retail space. PayPal’s $2.2 The move highlights the increasingly overlapping businesses of PayPal and Square, of which iZettle is a competitor.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

PayPal ’s venture capital arm has invested $11 million in online returns service Happy Returns. Sobie and Co-Founder Mark Geller met at HauteLook, an early flash sale retailer that was bought by Nordstrom. The funding is the largest round to date for the company, bringing Happy Returns’ total raise to $25 million.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2017

Bank of America’s mobile customers are fast embracing P2P. “We We remain a leader in digital banking and continue to see strong digital growth,” said Paul Donofrio, Bank of America’s chief financial officer, during the company’s earnings call this morning.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

To provide a customized guest experience for its clients, Genesis Motor America unveiled its Genesis Concierge service. The personal shopper will participate in each touch point of a client’s experience, from the first welcome to arranging for final retail vehicle delivery.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2020

Call it the retail gap that eCommerce can only partly fill. But eCommerce can only go part way, not the whole distance, in offsetting a devastating hit to retail as we have known it. have temporarily shut their doors, and more than 90 “non-essential” nationwide retailers have temporarily gone dark. But only 25.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The pandemic’s harsh impacts on retail continue to show themselves as brands report plummeting quarterly earnings and eye additional store closings. Inditex revealed what could be a blueprint for a novel online-offline model , while Ulta Beauty appears to be mulling the same strategy. 1 to April 30 due to the pandemic. €1B

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bank of America today announced new features to the billpay functionality of its mobile app, including allowing users to search payment history from up to two years ago. In an email this morning to its customers prompting them to download the mobile app (which the bank does on a regular basis), BofA also revealed a set […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fashion retailer rue21 (r21 Holdings, Inc.) The retailer modified its asset-based credit facility to bolster availability to $155 million due 2025 headed up by Bank of America, N.A. The modification comes with a rise to the FILO Loan via a collaborative effort between Tiger Finance and Bank of America. million members.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis and the digital shift that it accelerated are making five lessons clear that tradition brick-and-mortar retailers must heed if they want to survive, according to Karen Webster. The key lesson traditional merchants must learn is that “retail’s competition is the marketplace, not other category competitors,” Webster wrote.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Bank of America is proud of its virtual assistant, Erica, which has 3.5 million users and 11 million transactions within three months of its launch, Michelle Moore, head of digital banking at BofA, said at the BAI Beacon conference in Orlando yesterday. But Erica still has a long way go. Customers are not comparing Erica to […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Mastercard has introduced new tools designed to help small businesses drive online commerce, the company announced Wednesday (June 8). The site includes retailers from boutiques to restaurants and identifies merchants that accept contactless payments. Latin America and the Caribbean. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

With so many retail stores closing, they need to be able to provide a way to sell D2C wherever those consumers are online.”. As more brands embrace eCommerce, he added, joining online platforms solves only some of the challenges of international, cross-border efforts — namely, setting up digital storefronts and reaching consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Retailers are doubling down on toys amid a gap in the market left by the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2019

Bank of America set an ambitious goal for digital sales last June: 50% over the next couple of years. The bank remains far behind that target. Last quarter, the bank recorded 27% of its consumer banking sales came from digital, according to its fourth quarter 2018 earnings, which were disclosed today.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

A new report has revealed that Amazon’s Prime Day — along with promotions by other retailers — led to a boost in July retail sales. Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s head of U.S. economics, told CNBC that she expects retail sales — excluding autos — to have risen by 0.6 We’re above consensus.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

If America ever needed a digital estate sale — or even a garage sale, for that matter — it’s right now. What they need is an online auction marketplace. Successful online selling, especially on a one-off basis, is tough. For Mercari, it is online auctions as a touchless app experience akin to mobile order-ahead.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

As retailers look for a way out of an unprecedented cash flow crunch, many are slashing prices online and offering free shipping. The move is good for consumers, but for the retailers involved discounting is a double-edged sword. It’s the age-old argument for retail. retailers is down 64 percent over 2019.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tens of thousands of Bank of America clients reported outages of online and mobile banking services today. Many clients posted to social platform X to alert […] The post Bank of America mobile app, digital interface down appeared first on Bank Automation News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As the digital revolution continues to transform the way shoppers pay for things amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mastercard announced a free online tool to help entrepreneurs future-proof their companies. A Mastercard survey revealed 76 percent of small businesses in North America said the pandemic prompted them to become more digital.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Adyen , a FinTech whose payments platform is used by merchants and retailers around the world, is teaming up with San Francisco-based installment payment company Affirm in a new partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday (Nov. This can be done either online or in-store using a QR code, the companies said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

Iain McNicoll , Payoneer’s vice president for SMBs in the Americas, told PYMNTS in September that small companies started eyeing the digital ecosystem over 10 years ago in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis. The stat that we’ve seen around a lot.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Online retailer eBay , following in the footsteps of Overstock.com, is contemplating allowing bitcoin as a payment method. In an interview with Yahoo Finance , Scott Cutler, SVP of eBay Americas, said the eCommerce retailer is “seriously considering” accepting bitcoin payments but noted the company is “not quite there yet.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. With more and more commerce going online, he said, it will also be increasingly important for sellers to process a higher number of returns and chargebacks and to quickly settle customer disputes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Afterpay has announced its in-store buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is being offered by major retailers at locations across the country. Shoppers can use Afterpay to buy items in select retail stores using their Afterpay card, a virtual, contactless card stored in their digital wallet,” the firm said in a Tuesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. And in an interview with PYMNTS, Jacob Shoihet , co-founder and CEO of the online financing platform Marco Financial , said the problem is particularly acute for exporters. “In

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Example: Ted Gallagher is vice president and partner at Environmental Hazards Control , a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based company that disinfects retail locations and other business facilities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Nike showed in its latest earnings report that the sportswear giant is “just doing it” when it comes to three of the COVID-19 era’s hottest retail trends – digital-first shopping, direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales and building a killer loyalty/rewards program. That included more than 100 percent digital sales growth in North America.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As we look to a new decade and as payments technology advances, eyes are turning toward point-of-sale (POS) insurance offerings for retail purchases. And as Mitch Doust, executive vice president of the Americas at Cover Genius , recently discussed with Karen Webster, the opportunities are pretty significant. Product Categories.

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