PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

million last month to purchase the retail condo housing Murray’s flagship store, affiliated classrooms, as well as its catering and event operations. Murray’s former owner, Rob Kaufelt, will reportedly remain as a strategic adviser, and the team leading the New York City operation will largely remain unchanged. percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

An idea hatched at the Burning Man desert arts festival, the experience-focused hospitality group Habitas was founded in 2014 by Oliver Ripley, Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo. . It has already started two subsidiaries for real estate and manufacturing operations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The firm completed the first phase of its transformation in 2014, allowing it to use real-time analytics and IT tools to create dynamic pricing models and enable online and mobile app transactions. Streamlining operations and improving customer insights were key, but so was protecting against fraud, Koch said.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. More than any other generation, Millennials experience life, work and business through technology and they expect seamless interactions regardless of location.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

And digital wallet adoption is growing at a slow but steady rate, with 13 percent of consumers indicating they have used a digital wallet in the last 30 days, up from 11 percent in 2015 and 8 percent in 2014. Fifteen percent of consumers said they had used a digital wallet in the past year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Launched in 2014, Robinhood is a minimalist app that lets users set up an an online brokerage account, transfer funds from accounts at major banks (including Chase, Citi and Band of America) and check the prices of their stocks. Jack Randall, a spokesman for Robinhood, declined to comment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

That wasn’t perhaps the most surprising news, given how Amazon keeps taking control of more logistical and delivery operations — an effort that many observers expect will eventually include the eCommerce operator competing head-to-head with UPS and FedEx. Since its launch in 2014, Instacart has attracted more than $1.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

To save physical retail, anyone who wants to operate a physical store must convince consumers that it’s worth their time to—how’s this for an insight?—go What’s really steered people wrong is focusing on the average percentage of all retail sales that are online, and ignoring what’s happening in key verticals. population was online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

When Mastercard launched the Start Path accelerator program in 2014, the goal – according to VP and senior business leader, Amy Neale – was to make it easier for emerging companies to enter “our world” through a combination of operational support, commercial access and some strategic funding. The Start Path Admissions Process.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Nearly $120 million has been invested in approximately 300 startups based in Guadalajara since 2014. Mexico’s longstanding business culture resulted in the government investing $658 million to an estimated 620,000 entrepreneurs back in 2014. It’s projected that Mexico will represent the world’s fifth-largest economy by 2050.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

And, according to Pew Research, millennials are the group most concerned about running out of data (and the group most likely to use a mobile phone for payments). If we watch online, we skip ads — and given access to the right apps, we block them altogether … Most of us don’t like being sold to, especially by someone we don’t know.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. 30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

They also deliver more seamless experiences that consumers — and millennials in particular — have come to expect. trillion in 2018, an increase of 80 percent from 2014. . Additionally, 25 percent of all online bill payments to providers and payers will be conducted using real-time payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

But purchasing high-value diamonds online — whether they be traditional or lab-grown — is still a process that comes with risk and uncertainty. Andrew Puddifoot, GM of MiaDonna, shared with PYMNTS how the eCommerce bridal jewelry business is bringing value to the engagement ring shopping journey both online and in its physical showroom.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Millennials and members of Generation Z are particularly comfortable with voice-activated devices , with 25 percent of consumers aged 16 to 24 using smartphone-based voice assistants such as Siri or Cortana. Voice Assistants Spread Their (Buffalo) Wings. This system is currently being tested at 40 Domino’s locations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More and more, OTAs [online travel agencies] are moving into that group opportunity,” said Colin Smyth, head of travel at Flywire, in a PYMNTS interview. For OTAs and tour operators, taking payment up front is one thing. And the travel industry is still working to catch up with those changing consumer desires. Startups Rising.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More and more, OTAs [online travel agencies] are moving into that group opportunity,” said Colin Smyth, head of travel at Flywire, in a PYMNTS interview. For OTAs and tour operators, taking payment up front is one thing. And the travel industry is still working to catch up with those changing consumer desires. Startups Rising.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

Increasingly, as the holiday data shows, online and at Amazon. Millennials Are In For Some Hard Times. The data is grim — 2017 and beyond don’t bode well for the financial future of the millennial generation. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.’”. Contextual Commerce 2.0

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

It is, of course, obvious that the internet has changed how the world gets its information and conducts its commerce, but the specters of fraud and data breaches are keeping the latter from reaching its true potential online. For businesses, 2014 was “the wakeup call” and a “banner year for internet crime.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. And therein lies the rub. 25-31, 2020.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Department stores appealing to all parts of the consumer spectrum — Macy’s, Nordstrom, Hudson Bay (operator of Lord & Taylor and Saks) — are in a big slump, and chains that live in the malls they anchor are suffering right along with them. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Stresses in the retail sector have weighed on the operating earnings of department stores, discount stores and drug stores in particular,” Sharon Ou, a Moody’s senior credit officer, said in the report. Those oil and gas industry defaults, Moody’s noted, were explicable given the ongoing slump in crude prices since mid-2014.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Go to where millennials are and find out the trends that are popular among them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. : Investors may have treated the companies with divergent reactions, sending shares up (or down), but the movement online is clear. Similarly, Target showed 24 percent growth in its own online business. Macy’s said in its latest earnings report that digital sales growth was up double digits for the thirty-third straight quarter.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 1, 2015

At June 30, 2014, that branch had $23 million in total deposits, down $1 million from one year ago. Malls are experiencing difficulty in the United States, as millennials opt for smaller, urban environments to shop. And the rest of us are increasingly buying online. mBank’s light branch depicted above is located in a mall.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card. Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Of course, it’s not just the FinTech industry and tech-savvy millennials who are fueling digital change. Citing the 2014 North America Consumer Digital Banking Survey by Accenture, amazingly, 50 percent of people would use banking services from a Square app if they were offered one, and 41 percent would use banking services from PayPal.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2014, Starbucks stopped accepting Square’s mobile wallet, and shortly thereafter, Square pulled the plug entirely on that mobile wallet experiment. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants. And puts strong numbers to the bottom line.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

But there wasn’t a person on the planet, save us here at PYMNTS, who back in 2014 didn’t say Apple Pay was going to crush everyone, marginalize the card networks and kill PayPal. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Despite Buick’s continued commitment to innovation, the brand’s retro image remained a somewhat stifling force until 2014. One spot, for example, shows a grandmother getting picked up by her millennial grandson in his new car. From out-of-date to online. Becoming the “new” Buick. People really didn’t know what a Buick was.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. All others operate under special regulatory licenses and/or partner with financial institutions and some, like Revolut, are in the process of obtaining a charter. Millennials. why profitability won’t come easy.

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CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

They also know how successful a retailer can be if it builds a leading e-commerce presence and brings a country into online retail. Those users combined to spend $18.38B on online retail from Sept ‘16 – Sept ‘17. Research from Morgan Stanley projects the online retail market will explode from $15B in 2016 to $200B in 2026.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Hot Pepper Beauty, one of Japan’s top online booking services, worked with Google AdWords to attract customers and increase conversions while lowering costs. The first image below — taken from Google’s 2017 patent application titled “ Escalation to a human operator ” — shows the operator dashboard showing progress of existing tasks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2016

At the end of 2014, the average U.S. Likewise, the rate of online fraud attacks on retailers has doubled, up 137 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2016. . “Uber wouldn’t exist the way that it does today without the existence of the gig economy.” ” Fraud’s Upward Flight. ” —.

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