PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Goldman Sachs booked a 4 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the third quarter of 2018, with that growth powered in part by increased lending through its Marcus by Goldman Sachs online consumer savings and lending platform. earnings per share booked for the third quarter of 2018. Q3 revenue for the investment bank hit $8.65

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MAY 11, 2020

Retailers are opening their doors again during the pandemic to customers who have appointments. Its staffers were reportedly fully booked and will stay that way up to the conclusion of May, according to a report in The New York Times. Call it the end of the walk-ins. At least for now.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. has now been approved to operate its derivatives platform, CoinDesk reported. In other news, a subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in the U.K.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

Can Wal-Mart’s Expensive New E-Commerce Operation Compete With Amazon? A recent acquisition spree including Jet.com gives the retail giant much-needed digital chops by Brad Stone and Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg Business Week Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Services are operated so differently,” Koopman said when asked to explain such differences. Onboarding can mean online booking systems,” she told Webster.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

retail picture is bleak in this time of COVID-19. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said on Thursday (March 26) that its monthly survey of retailers showed the weakest outlook since April 2009. The CBI says retail sales volumes will fall sharply to April, with retailers more pessimistic than at any time since April 2009.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 10, 2018

Digital human, as O’Haver explained, is the marriage of digital innovation with the physical retail banking experience. Coincidentally, it’s also the title of a Chris Skinner book.) O’Haver is not talking […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Travala.com CEO Juan Otero said in the announcement, “We couldn’t be more excited to join forces with TravelbyBit, which is backed by Binance and have constantly been achieving and pushing crypto adoption by providing blockchain-based online travel booking services.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79 Amazon Effort.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Meanwhile, the luxury retail ecosystem could change via another online operation that offers relatively easy access to designer goods. Data: 100 percent: The amount of mobile bookings that some travel operators say they will hit within the next few years, underscoring a shift away from desktop.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has announced that it will be selling books online, which could be picked up in one of its almost 1,000 stores. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The retailer also offers a Shop The Look service in the store that allows customers to scan a quick-response (QR) code to find out the size and available colors of the items displayed on a mannequin. In Other Brick-And-Mortar Retail. The retailer’s comparable sales slid by 5.4 billion fell in line with analyst estimates of $5.41

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets. Retail Challenge.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Amazon, the country’s largest eCommerce player, has seen retailers in Austria file a complaint with their country’s competition authority over the company’s roles as both a retailer and a marketplace. The report noted the main concern is that Amazon operates dual roles that could hurt competition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Even before the holiday shopping season began, Amazon already commanded a growing share of consumers’ retail spending, according to The Amazon Paycheck Index from PYMNTS. Over the last four years, retail sales have shifted to Amazon in key categories that were once the domain of the physical store. Voice Retail. Amazon Paycheck.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans. The retail sector is among the largest employers in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

RetailMeNot , the Texas-based company that operates coupon websites, announced “Rebound with RetailMeNot,” a four-day event featuring deals from a variety of popular stores. Census Bureau reported the nation’s retail sales increased 7.5 Retail sales rose by 1 percent in June compared to a year ago. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

Luxury retail isn’t such a cushy business these days. Nordstrom might be going private , the retail company announced in news Thursday (June 15). percent from the previous quarter, while retail net sales climbed only 0.5 Luxury retail isn’t seeing setbacks because of the economy or uncertain political environment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Hunter Hall , executive director of the Main Street Business Improvement Association (MSBIA), told Karen Webster recently that Main Street has to adapt if it hopes to continue as an active commercial base of restaurants and retailers. “Up The MSBIA is an advocacy group that represents Main Street businesses in Santa Monica, California.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

retail, the first products the company sold were diamonds, watches and jewelry — exactly where Tiffany started. Dueling Toy Books. It also seemed like the “big book,” the company’s beloved holiday season toy catalog, was also disappearing. Amazon is this year rolling out its big book of toys for 2020. So is Target.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

Amazon, of course, stands out as a marquee name in the move to make the retail experience wholly digital commerce. There may be a groundswell against cashless retail, but then again, there also is a movement to take cash out of the equation. And those stakeholders include ATM operators. The Case Against Cash.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

And to top it off, you have a major product extension on the books with millions in media behind it. What we don’t know is whether or not the retailers that will sell this — or any product for that matter — will be hit domestically by fear of being in public places. So far we know two things about this future case study.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With a successful Singles Day in the books for Alibaba, last week was a referendum on the spending power and preference for Chinese consumer. consumer’s spending power as Kohl’s, Walmart, Macy’s, Target and other brick-and-mortar-based retailers report their earnings. The Minneapolis-based retail giant reports Wednesday morning (Nov.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The Booking Experience. Cavins described the company’s booking experience as similar to the home sharing platform Airbnb : To find vehicles on the platform, users can type in their location and select their reservation dates. The company encourages owners to activate instant booking for their listings. “It

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 17, 2024

The takeaway is that banks interested in increasing their market-to-book ratio should consider allocating more resources and capital to deposit products and deposit marketing. Loans, by contrast, usually drive 75% of total asset productivity but only impact market-to-book changes by 8%. increase in M/B. The answer is – most likely.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

It often seems that technology makes retail innovation. Ive has earned a place in the history books, at least when it comes to the history of this particular era of retail. Dye and Hankey will report to Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. It can be easy to forget that people are behind those innovations.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I touch a variety of sub-industries, including retail banking, commercial banking, and payments. How do you think it will change the way financial services organizations operate? MM: Favorite book? With the world opening back up and investments coming back, I feel we’ve really geared ourselves to face new challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Earlier in the millennium, there was a book titled, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? — a chronicle of IBM’s transformation from troubled business to tech behemoth. In the retail world, one pachyderm has been learning to dance in all manner of ways, displaying the chops to tango, watusi and foxtrot as situations demand.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That was the concept for CloudBusiness , which operates business management tool Synder. Business model flexibility has proven to be essential to the survival of companies, and migrating sales operations online can be a savior for traditionally brick-and-mortar retailers. That doesn't mean it's impossible to do, however.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

She said companies such as Authorize.net , the small business offering of CyberSource, have set up resource pages that can help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) get online and streamline operations through, for example, digital invoicing. Existential Points Of Pivot. The restaurant and grocery sectors have also been transformed.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In 2018, the term can now be more legitimately used to define the portion of consumer spend and overall retail sales Amazon now captures given the expansion of its ecosystem. What’s driving that share of spend is the growing proportion Amazon has captured in the biggest chunk of it: retail. percent of retail spend is pretty puny.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

An initial explosion of online orders left Amazon overwhelmed, forcing the company to temporarily reprioritize its operation toward mostly delivering key household items. This is just speeding up the significant change the retail industry was already undergoing.”. The so-called ‘last mile’ of delivery has become front and center.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

And as reported in the Financial Times , banks that are relatively more dependent on lending activities to keep operations afloat are facing challenges that have not been seen since the financial crisis and recession of more than a decade ago. percent of their loan books to cover expected loan losses, as Accenture estimates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The 2020 holiday season was one for the history books, drastically different due to the pandemic limiting consumers’ in-person shopping experiences. The onus thus falls on retailers to protect their customers, which said customers agree with wholeheartedly. percent increase from the previous year. A survey found that 92 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The companies said in a statement that in addition to the investment, they will both “explore partnership opportunities in service operations, logistics and digital retailing.”. Cox Automotive’s global footprint, service and logistics capabilities, and retail technology platform make them a great partner for us.”.

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