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DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. According to J.P.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Day in and day out, our colleagues are contributing their unique expertise to deliver end-to-end digital solutions for our clients – some of the world’s biggest brands. Through our Bright Paths program, we’re committed to bringing more diverse insights and skillsets into the conversation and driving true innovation forward.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Innovation Challenges. Payments innovation, for starters, is an alien concept for many travel service providers, especially in the U.S. Payments innovation, for starters, is an alien concept for many travel service providers, especially in the U.S. Innovation Willingness. Where is that spark for innovation coming from?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. The clothing retailer is hardly alone, as 85 percent of merchants say that they innovate to stay competitive, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , while 77 percent say they use it to drive sales.

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). Stronger Ties.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

That was, of course, predictable — people would get gift cards in lieu of a physical gift, and recipients redeemed those cards in the first few weeks after their receipt. However, Grant added, these days, that innovation needs a lot of scaling up. Necessity has a way of being the mother of innovation. The Prepaid Renaissance.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is offering a course to help entrepreneurs better understand blockchain technology and cryptocurrency companies, according to a report by CNBC. Dixon said the free course is being offered with “no strings attached,” and that no companies will need to give up any equity stake to take part.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The flipside to all of this activity, of course, is that an already imperfect consumer journey has the potential to become even more complex as a direct result of more options. In part, this is because so much innovation ( small “i”! ) It’s a Brand New World. Consistent Experiences Matter in Virtual Health, Too. all at once.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. He has served as Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer since 2016 and has headed the network’s new products and innovation team since 2018. Broader payment flows is putting it mildly, of course.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 85 percent believe they need to innovate to stay competitive. And among large retailers, 82 percent said innovation is necessary for continued success.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. And the series of videos — which have been called 2018’s answer to the “fireside chat” — have reportedly been big brand builders for both Ocasio-Cortez, and Instant Pot, whose sales notched a slight pre-holiday boost from the sudden influx of attention.

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JULY 17, 2019

In other words, digital innovation has been slow to arrive in the service world, a point demonstrated by recent PYMNTS research in collaboration with AEVI, and a new PYMNTS interview with Nicky Koopman, SVP of content and value-added services at AEVI. Of course, there are reasonable explanations for that. Calls vs. Emails.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Even worse, it’s having an impact on how quickly their innovations can get to market.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The group was in agreement that while the rise in brands embracing direct-to-consumer (D2C) channels has gained substantial momentum, there is still much to be learned about a practice that is still very much evolving. And of course, there’s candy. . ; Abhishek Ahluwalia , global eCommerce growth platforms leader for Mondel?z

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JANUARY 6, 2020

And, in beauty retail, online hair and body care brands such as Ouai are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores like Ulta Beauty. iPhone app-enabled marketplaces such as Trainiac are letting consumers work one-on-one with a personal trainer. All this, Today in Data.

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MAY 16, 2019

The trouble with direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands is that the name belies how hard it actually is to reach and recruit the consumer. This is particularly hard for unknown emerging brands — and it gets exponentially harder the more crowded the field gets with competitors.

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JUNE 22, 2019

That the markets are changing is observable in what feels like an unending parade of brands looking to jump on board with the trend. Well, with innovation of course. But of course, manicures are not everyone’s speed — and many folks are looking for wellness solutions closer to home. Of all kinds …. Monetizing Mindfulness.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution. But, I digress.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. La Ligne’s main area of focus, according to Howard, is building their brand cautiously – and with an eye toward being profitable and scalable. We’re listening.”.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. More Innovation. Some 15 percent of the U.S.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Across the entire digital world, payments are, of course, getting faster, with wages and disbursements getting to recipients quickly or even instantly as more businesses chase those opportunities. Spend management is also following that trend, though there is still much work to do, of course. Moving Away from Paper.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Marketplaces and brands now make it easy now to auto-refill everything from paper towels to pet food, skin crèmes to salty snacks, bottled water to baby wipes. consumers have tried a new brand in the last 60 days, and have made that purchase directly from the brand via an online channel. So do pet product brands.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Today, of course, is the day after Thanksgiving. You may have missed our coverage of a few of the retail innovators that are summed up below, arranged in no particular order, or perhaps you’ll want to revisit them anew. Hunt said, “You really want to experience a moment of time with the brand and their story.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That’s not unlike the journey many of our customers have taken – the senior decision-makers and C-level executives we partner with and advise have demonstrated a similar attitude and aptitude over the course of their careers. Perficient’s an ambitious and innovative place, and that captures Abe’s spirit pretty well also.

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JULY 7, 2020

The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course toward a future that is without precedent. 2019: Launch year of Empathy Wines, which was recently purchased by Constellation Brands. All this, Today in Data. Data: . 42%: Share of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards. It’s a fact that merchants, of course, do not love.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

When the story of the coronavirus is written, when it comes to financial services, the key chapters will focus on the pace at which innovation accelerated — and where a range of players came together to create ecosystems, rather than to simply compete in zero-sum, winner-take-all bids for consumers. Ready For The Digital Shift.

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MARCH 24, 2020

To integrate payments in the most efficient way, it, of course, helps to define what integrated payments actually mean, across a constantly shifting payments ecosystem. Data is key, of course, when it comes to payments. The Evolution Of Embedded Payments .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Substitute producer for buyer or supplier. Consumer for the end user.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Payments, of course, have always been important, but the new decade promises to be something else entirely. As you can imagine, digital disbursements stand as one of the main areas of innovation and disruption for the practice of payments going forward. But in fairness, it’s going to be a big one, at least from all the signs.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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MARCH 4, 2019

The goods for sale, despite the LEGO branding, aren’t building sets or toys, but a line of streetwear themed around LEGO in general – and, specifically, around the new LEGO movie. LEGO, of course, is best known for toys, but the company does a lot more. And the virtual LEGO DJ was particularly popular.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. Not only that, but “Verishop is launching with roughly 150 brands — and growing — already signed on.” The challenge, of course, is significant. The company generated about $3.3

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JUNE 21, 2019

Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. The company last year announced it would buy a 3 percent stake in Grubhub, and that it was teaming up with the company to provide delivery from two of its brands — Taco Bell and KFC. The rewards so far?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

But to remind all of us that payment innovations are only as good as the certainty those innovations deliver to their intended users. Ubiquity, of course, is payments nirvana. It’s why Visa and Mastercard are such powerful global brands. Or to buff up PayPal. Distress creates friction. Certainty as a Catalyst for Change.

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