PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

With so many retailers hustling to capture the digital shift, it’s easy to let the details suffer. A new category is starting to grow around this area of online reputation management, with Lexus one of the latest brand names to embrace it. “At Lexus, we have always held guest experience as our top priority.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the social media platform become a more attractive place for consumers to buy retail products, and to capture more sales via what is coming to be known as contextual commerce. Social Media Purchases. In other words, consumers are shopping contextually.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 20, 2017

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. Kumsal has been building a community of small sized enterprises and providing them with tools to help them manage, promote and grow their businesses via the cloud. First, there is the fastPay Wallet.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In September, Bank of China launched an innovation lab through a contract with IBM to fend off competition from these platforms, which function as hubs for e-commerce, banking and social media. According to Likhit Wagle, general manager […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers may be focused on the wrong metrics. Banking and retail put the most emphasis on return on investment (ROI). It’s not just about the product or service, but the entire customer journey from beginning to end, and it’s something companies should be explicitly managing.”. One explanation?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Retailers put together window displays and signs to create enticing storefronts, engage customers via social media and send printed ads through the mail. There’s a lot of complementary technologies that are being offered today that can be incorporated into the whole self-serve or unattended retail system,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

There has been increased demand for AI in the fashion industry, according to Infoholic, partially due to social media and the rise of influencers. That has led to the growing need for designers and retailers to personalize shopping experiences, and that’s the sweet spot for AI. Fast fashion retailer H&M uses A.I.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The move seems to be working, as many restaurants have lengthy waiting lists, and are popular on social media. The restaurant’s deputy general manager, Eva Liu, said the restaurant was so busy that she couldn’t even get a table for her friends on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Catering revenue, however, went up 9.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Voice-assisted retail has commanded most of the spotlight in recent months, a reasonable development given the sales of voice-enabled devices, especially during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Take one example from apparel retail (this one without any sweaters). Like so much else in digital retail, success comes down to data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The remote payments app allows merchants to charge customers by sending a payment link via SMS, Whatsapp, email or social media. The iZettle Food & Drink app will also enable merchants to manage orders in one place, from dining rooms to take-out.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Retailers in this space are also beginning to offer more payment methods and shopping channels, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on consumer behaviors is partly driving this shift. Providing diverse payment methods is therefore becoming as essential to retailers’ success as offering expansive product lines.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Through a long-term vision to take on the desire of users to window shop and amp up retail, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri seeks to “connect the dots thoughtfully” between sellers, shoppers and “influencers” on the app. Payment information entered on the platform can be saved and orders can be managed from the app.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

With a need for social distancing in the coronavirus era, businesses are seeking ways to restrict traffic through appointment-based systems for physical retail. GlobalData Managing Director and Retail Analyst Neil Saunders said in an NRF blog post that the situation provides an opportunity to experiment with new ways of selling.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. The problem is: While there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail, it’s also true that much about retail doesn’t work in healthcare. Reputation management. It’s the social media or TurboTax experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“So it’s no surprise that Instagram is making moves to replicate TikTok’s most popular features — especially in areas where TikTok hasn’t already amassed a strong foothold, like Brazil,” says social media fan site Later. “In In practice, that means turning customers into influencers via a social selling technology platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Instagram , the photo and video sharing social media platform operator, is rolling out a trial of a new shopping program in which users can shop and check out within the app. Payment information entered on Instagram can be saved and orders can be managed from the app. based mobile users.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s. Role of Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported. The company was founded in 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

But when it comes to the digital customer experience, retailers are playing catch-up. The issue is critical as retailers either move online or put more effort behind their eCommerce capabilities. This includes federating unstructured data and a self-service interface for use cases specific to Customer Experience Management (CXM).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Employees who may not have regular access to corporate email accounts were being notified by their managers at work. Social media posts show that some former employees, who left the company months ago, have also received notification letters. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Kenny Tsang , managing director at cross-border payments service provider PingPong , told Karen Webster that merchants must be ready — and must execute well. Tsang said that with holiday shopping pulled forward, the biggest issue many sellers will face is how to manage their inventory. Small And Nimble > Big And Slow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to a PYMNTS report , Tiger Global Management plans to buy at least one-fifth of the shares in the IPO. The company, based in Austin, Texas, has software that allows companies to manage eCommerce sales through markets like Amazon or on social media like Instagram. BigCommerce sold 9 million shares Tuesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the highly connected digital age, consumers are interacting with a multitude of social media sites as well as apps and connected devices. During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

While it is the only option for many retailers, eCommerce is running into its own limitations under the pressure of the COVID-19 crisis. The most concerning news about those limitations comes as retailers get a handle on how and why eCommerce orders have spiked since stores started closing at the end of February.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to a report in Fintech Futures , HSBC started the beta test with 15 retailers in Hong Kong. In the early part of 2017, HSBC announced the new payment app, geared toward millennials in Hong Kong who also wanted social media built in. bank plans to add more retailers to the beta test in the next few months.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The event is part of the social media company’s Season of Support to offer complimentary resources, education and instruction to assist companies throughout the globe, according to a company blog post. To support Black-owned businesses and their communities, Facebook has introduced its #BuyBlack Friday event in the United States.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2020

With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. That doesn’t count alienated customers who are ready to pull the trigger on social media with a bad review. Conservative estimates put online sales at $630 billion this year.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. Trust in online platforms and social-media companies as providers of payments services is low. So why not?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. Not only that, but the luxury online consignment retailer opened a brick-and-mortar store on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. Indeed, in its recent U.S. has notched $300 million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

As such, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has announced extensions for retailers that may require more time to comply. These extensions will only be granted to a select few retailers, however. Deep Dive: Retailers Brace For SCA’s Downsides. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Retailers And Data’s Role .

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 3, 2024

To do this, we teamed up with Jack Hubbard, Managing Partner of the Modern Banker , to bring you our collective favorites. Each book applies to any banker in a management position who faces a customer in the branch or field or any banker thinking about improving organizational performance. This book will be needed by bank CEOs in 2024.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Pinterest has rebranded its third-party partner program Marketing Partners into Pinterest Partners to facilitate a greater number of shopping experiences on its platform, according to a report by Retail Dive. The company has around 291 million active users, many of whom use the platform for shopping ideas when they go out to retail stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Social media company Facebook is going to buy a stake in Meesho, an Indian eCommerce startup that connects people re-selling a variety of items with potential buyers on other platforms, according to a report from Reuters. The retail giant’s main rival is Walmart-owned Flipkart. Facebook’s investment would help Meesho.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The pandemic, for its part, has closed a number of malls and physical retail locations. Consumers have turned to online shopping platforms and social media sites, and Verishop aims to capture a portion of the heightened digital business. “But we wanted to make sure that we get the boring parts right.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

For 70 years, [the catalog] has been one of our most unique and iconic products, which has inspired billions of people across the world,” said Konrad Grüss, managing director, Inter IKEA Systems BV. “[But] Of course, it’s not surprising that a retailer looking to focus on digital is exiting print. percent for internet display ads.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The trick is making self-direction easier, by enabling more context in commerce – and ensuring consumers can make equal choices between various channels with comparable levels of transparency, speed and security when they want to buy an item, manage their money or pay a bill.

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