PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

million times and led to a 60 percent increase in the brand’s followers on Snapchat. “We wanted to be really engaging and enable them to participate in our brand. The final video was seen 6.7 It’s a great storytelling platform,” Galipeau told Fortune.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. A recent study found that despite problems with megabank perception, 73% of those asked said a recognizable brand was important in choosing a financial institution. There were a couple of overarching themes throughout the event.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. It’s an inspiring story — and one that gets many an innovator out of bed to fight the good startup fight, even in the face of insurmountable odds. What a difference two years makes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

This is evident with China’s JD.com snapping up luxury brand marketplace Farfetch for a cool $397 million this summer. This is due to the fact that hot spot destinations are more apt to have better access to high-end brands. The surprise luxury consumers who’re popping up, according to Bain’s research, are millennials and Generation Z.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Mobile coupons are still popular, especially among millennials. For millennials, that number is 90 percent. For millennials, that number is 90 percent. EMarketer also found that nearly two-thirds of millennial internet users searched social networks for coupons in the third quarter of 2015.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Well, what do we say about 2015? And, give or take a stumble or two, we snuck through it and did a reasonable job on 2015 objectives, in our humble opinion. So, it seems we’re good with only one outstanding item—digest the 2015 GonzoBanker Awards! 2015 Executive Call-out. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

According to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS and PSCU collaboration, trust is the driving factor in that choice. Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. That result, Chambers noted, is just an average.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Deirdre Ives, CEO and managing director at Wirecard North America, noted that when it comes to innovation, issuers face challenges in meeting the needs and expectations of a diverse populace of users spanning borders and cultures. That’s especially true among younger users such as millennials.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

When the world first encountered the brand in 2011, Dollar Shave Club didn’t have much more than an innovative idea for selling razors and a viral video about the concept. On top of razors, toothpaste and cologne, the brand will now offer deodorant sticks and wipes. Same quality, but 90 percent less expensive. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

It’s an industry that has — and continues to — shift quickly from its brick-and-mortar roots to an often innovative eCommerce experience. Founded in 2015, it has gradually built up a large enough following that they’ve started to be called “the Warby Parker of Australia,” unironically. Wellness and Sustainability.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Since then, Peltz has continued to push P&G to re-evaluate its R&D strategy, bring in more external talent, and focus on innovation. Short-term challenges.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. In the U.S. trillion and $1.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But there was no clear branding on any of them unless you were in on the reference. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer. It’s millennials and post-millennials (or their parents, more likely) with expendable income and a credit history. And just what are Spectacles?

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Insights on Business

JUNE 23, 2017

But as innovative as they were, they didn’t seem to pose much of a threat to century-old institutions with billions in assets. Innovating in the digital front office to serve both audiences. Fortunately, banks have a long history of technological innovation. Banking with a trusted brand at the center.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

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NCR

MAY 9, 2017

But technology innovators and financial institutions have worked together for generations. Bankrate’s conversion of the Quizzle app (purchased from Quicken Loans in 2016) to Score & Report, white-labeled for use by community banks and credit unions, enables a branded and cost effective solution for quick adoption of new technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu. Brands subsidiary? 2015 also marked the opening of Taco Bell’s first storefront in China. How has this fared for the Yum!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

The goal: to start a conversation by taking a fresh look at how the ecosystem is changing, innovating and disrupting — all at the same time. Walmart’s revenues of nearly half a trillion dollars ($485 billion in 2015) and 2.2 Millennials Are In For Some Hard Times. million employees — half of whom are in the U.S. population.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

coupons, promotions and sales – oh my), it’s increasingly been shoppers themselves who have turned away from luxury-priced brands in favor of a dollar store mentality. The effects of this new shopper ethos are widespread, and while more and more retailers try to give consumers what they think they want (i.e.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

I’ve been writing about the impact Amazon would have on the consumer’s grocery shopping journey and disruption to the grocery segment since Amazon introduced Dash buttons in March of 2015. As a long-time Whole Foods customer, I know, like and trust the Whole Foods brand and the quality of the products they carry in-store.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

And before there was Chase, there was LevelUp, the branded mobile payments platform that used those same cube-shaped readers to enable QR code payments at the physical POS for consumers with the LevelUp app. Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. In February of 2018, Yum!

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NCR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In the rush to serve the tech-savvy millennial market and keep up with the latest developments in mobile and digital banking, some FIs might fall into the trap of overlooking traditional channels. million in 2015. Why the ATM is key to omnichannel. That figure is expected to increase to four million by 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2019

According to analyst estimates, a Star Wars movie year is worth $5-$7 billion in merchandising revenue for Disney—and that estimate was made with the 2015 release of the first of the Disney Star Wars films, The Force Awakens. And Disney has made good use of them.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

It’s one of many brands struggling to define and place itself in the mobile and digital era — and consistently finding itself not quite getting there. Such is the question underlying a recent piece in Bloomberg, wondering whether The Gap and its brand-wide focus on predictable staples might be its essential problem.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

And as men – particularly single millennial men with a fair amount of discretionary capital to put toward the project – are moving toward a more pro-grooming stance – the market is moving quickly to catch up. Once that customer is successfully targeted, Hales noted they are less likely than a female customer to socially push a brand.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now that both mom-and-pop hardware shops, as well as national brick-and-mortar chains have had more than a calendar year to react to the changes, a definite trend has emerged.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

billion, and brands are already getting onboard with the technology. Ralph Lauren installed 16 smart mirrors in the fitting rooms at its flagship location on Fifth Avenue in 2015. In an effort to attract millennials, Zara planned to integrate augmented reality into its store, it was reported in March.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. Five hundred million Chia Pets are sold each holiday season (at $19.95

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

To whet your appetite for two days of fintech innovation, we’re releasing the full and final lineup of presenting companies for FinovateFall 2015. additiv develops and implements digital innovations and business models for financial services providers. Hedgeable is the first private banking platform for millennials.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

An April 2015 pair-up with fashion icon Lilly Pulitzer was such a runaway success that the event — which was supposed to go on for a few weeks — was more or less entirely sold out within a few days (and for some high-demand items, sellouts were more easily measured in hours). Designer partnerships are not exactly new territory for Target.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. What they discovered was sobering: 56.5

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Table of Contents.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

All you millennials out there, ask your parents what they used to do as teenagers on Saturday afternoons. The web built on his innovations opened up a whole new world for consumers to search and discover things. Innovators quickly seized these new platforms and used them to transform the merchant and consumer experience.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Consider that: Half of Indonesia’s population is under the age of 30, with the number of millennials (aged 17-35) in Indonesia currently at 79.5M. Indonesia features the largest ($27B in 2018) and fastest-growing (49% CAGR 2015-2018) internet economy in Southeast Asia, according to a study by Google and Temasek.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Walmart’s revenues of nearly half a trillion dollars ($485 billion in 2015) and 2.2 Some analysts have ascribed a ~50 billion valuation on the service in 2015. Its Prime customer base of which there is said to be ~54 million, who are not only brand loyal, but big spenders – outspending non-Prime customers by a factor of two to one.

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