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AUGUST 5, 2020

The great digital shift, along with the pandemic, has brought all manner of activities into the virtual realm — most notably, of course, commerce itself. In the current environment, of course, the pandemic decimated foot traffic across any number of verticals — restaurants and retailers come to mind, of course.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Census Bureau reported that retail eCommerce sales for the second quarter, on an unadjusted basis, stood at $200.7 That jump comes at total retail sales were $1.3 percent of the total tally, and the overall decrease (in aggregated sales) comes as, of course, the lingering impacts of lockdown and staggered re-openings continued.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. That’s driven the retailer to require merchandise, risk-driven signatures that can be dynamically altered, said Thompson. The Scope Of The Problem.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. The tech savvy consumer, he told PYMNTS, expects choice and autonomy in a retail setting. Some Exceptions to Automation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s happened to almost all consumers: They’re idly perusing their credit card statements when they come across completely confusing, seemingly random charges from businesses they don’t recognize in locations they’ve never visited. Consumers panic and call their issuers to question these charges.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Herrick expects that ReplyBuy and Airship will create a holistic ecosystem, allowing retailers to use its engagement technology to acquire customers and then use conversational commerce to retain them and grow their value. Or would she prefer to visit the store (mask required, of course) for a custom fitting? To her home?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

After a long, intensive crash course in payments, international money transfers, SWIFT , AML/KYC and a host of other financial service areas, it was clear to Nanu that the international payments market was in dire need of newer, better ideas. Serving Consumers And Business. The Customer As Issuer.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Quick: Who’s the biggest retailer in the U.S.? In terms of sheer size and locations, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is the biggest retailer in the country, with 31,000 locations covering pretty much every town. Of course, it’s revenue, not size, that has been USPS’ problem. Not Walmart (5,500 stores).

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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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MARCH 12, 2020

Today a customer may walk into a retail location in the midst of a pandemic. In fact, experiential retail does not sleep during a pandemic or any other external event. First, retailers need the right mindset,” he said. “In Only then can retailers use technology properly, to yield time well spent.”. How to do that?

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JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob Pfeifer, something of a curious side phenomenon unfolding at the same time: Online brands – famous and famously successful online brands – are branching out into physical retail.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

But there’s an entirely different retail universe where human “help” feels like an imposition. Shopping at one’s own pace, unaccosted by sales associates, is a core allure of unattended retail (UR). The big action in UR at the moment is, of course, Amazon Go – but it’s looking like that’s the tip of the iceberg.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In a press release , the Cupertino, California iPhone maker said that with the addition of the national retailers, 74 of the leading 100 merchants in the U.S. and 65 percent of retail locations around the U.S. Other major retailers that now support Apple Pay include Costco and CVS Pharmacy. Apple announced Tuesday (Jan.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The move, of course, is inspired by what Amazon is doing in its Amazon Go grocery stores. The project also could grow to include app or loyalty card identification of shoppers to further the frictionless commerce and payments ideal. The grocery industry is making a go of it. European Role.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The context is important, because of course the services offered to the consumer vary by use case,” Schulte noted. Retailers had to make that changeover quickly, as online players became an increasingly obvious threat to their future. What the consumer, the bank and the retailer are looking at today is the same,” Engel said. “We

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JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

and has attracted more than 3,000 retailers to its partnerships. Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level. Klarna has melded New York Fashion Week glitz with experiential retailing this year. The changes in fashion retail are being driven by three dynamics.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. are now looking to follow suit.”. Security Cameras.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

He said that “back then, the price was driven by mainly retail investors.”. Ternio, of course, has linked with Visa as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner. consumers interested in applying for its new Coinbase Card. But now, at least some asset managers have been embracing bitcoin as a hedge against currencies and gold.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

As detailed by NPR, though at least some verticals, such as grocery stores, accept card transactions (and thus see at some volume of contactless payments), a significant number of smaller businesses rely on cash to keep revenues coming in. Roughly 55 percent said that cash, of course, is a widely accepted means of payment.

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JULY 15, 2020

And for some retailers, it can seem as if every day is Black Friday — not just for larger, well-established players, but also for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Among the schemes du jour during the pandemic: phishing attacks , of course. And, of course, the malevolent lie in wait. They may test cards, or not.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To say the least, the retail industry finds itself in the middle of a tricky holiday season. Over the course of the last five years, gift ordering cut-offs have been pushing deeper into the season, all the way to Dec. So, we anticipate more SMBs utilizing mobile gift card and loyalty apps as contact-free payments become the norm.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. More growth, of course.

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JULY 7, 2020

Of course, voting is a bit of popularity contest, and as retail investors (and some institutional ones) crowd into a stock, they can quickly bid its price up — as is happening these days with payments processor Square. Wall Street has famously been called “both voting machine and weighing machine.”.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. The startup was Visa , of course. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

In a year marked by unpredictable events, high unemployment, business closures and, of course, a global pandemic, the U.S. Fagan noted that payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard have been recording steep dips in credit card activity, where the shift has favored debit payments. A year like no other draws to a weary close.

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MAY 2, 2019

Simply put, buyers stretch out payments and suppliers play the waiting game – at least as well as it can be played with checks and cards. In terms of the mechanics of the integration, Fundbox’s offering is being embedded in Brandwise’s online platform, which helps suppliers and sales agencies sell to retailers.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2018

Then of course there are various other events sweeping the financial services space, from new tax laws in the U.S., EXCLUSIVE — It’s not even a month into 2018 and already so much has changed. The cryptocurrency bitcoin, which shocked everyone by surpassing $17K, further shocked everyone by dropping below $10K. to the rise of […].

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Retail spending may be helping to spur freight volumes, and to push already lofty pricing higher. That’s because consumer demand is picking up, but retail inventories are relatively low. Those include enhanced billing and pricing, with options for credit cards. million in funding.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Of course, companies hedge their bets a bit when it comes to guidance, offering a broad range for many data points. That may portend a bit of bumpiness for retailers like Target. But as The Wall Street Journal noted, the shift across the retail landscape has had a bit of mixed effect. But what comes next? Just check your inbox.

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