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JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most recent experiments for direct-to-consumer eCommerce is taking place on Instagram , and, if successful, could forge a path for brands that want to sell directly to online consumers. This format created urgency and exclusivity for would-be shoppers — a key tactic for brands and retailers alike to increase conversion.”.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Alibaba and Tencent , which are locked in a battle to win over consumers, have invested more than $10 billion in retailers since the beginning of 2017. As a result, retailers are taking sides, CNBC reported. By working with Alibaba and Tencent, merchants can access payment systems and logistics services — as well as Big Data.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). And let these bad memories of holidays past guide you in the coming weeks to ensure that your retail and payments machine is running in top condition.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

For merchants, a resolution worth considering as the new year begins is to make smart financial decisions and strive to offer customers a seamless online shopping experience. Working to improve how online customers interact with digital buy buttons is a single step that could simultaneously address these two goals.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Online or in the real world, while shopping for goods or ordering food , consumers’ favorite experiences seem to be the ones they can self-direct. Increasingly, it seems retailers need not only ask what they can do for their consumers, as those consumers want to be doing it on their own.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

In the webinar, entitled “ 5 Ways Fraudsters Fake IDs — And How Your Face Can Stop Them ,” Trilli not only offered an up-to-date primer on the latest criminal techniques to steal online data and identities, but gave practical and hopeful advice on how to prevent much of that fraud, even as the people behind it keep raising their game.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

At the basic level of retail industry chatter online, much of the focus is on the battle between brick-and-mortar versus eCommerce. Retailers at the local city level are seeing an impact under the digital transformation of the industry and should not be left out of the conversation.

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MAY 11, 2018

That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Marriott began working with Fliggy in August 2017. Last year, the U.S.-based

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. in 2017 had a 52.75 These companies are also not allowed to advertise on digital platforms, such as social media or search engines, Rogers said.

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JULY 26, 2017

Talking about retail and not mention Amazon these days is a difficult thing to do. The eCommerce company has grown significantly in the past few decades, and we’ve started to see the physical impacts of its innovative force on other retailers. And these are just the numbers Amazon itself chooses to put out into the retail sphere.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Social media posts show that some former employees, who left the company months ago, have also received notification letters. Nordstrom had about 72,500 full- and part-time employees in 2017, and that number grew to 76,000 in December due to the holiday season. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

While online commerce has allowed eRetailers to source consumer data and to deliver targeted, personalized advertisements, physical retail has often lacked these capabilities. Los Angeles-based tech company Bridg is closing the loop for brick-and-mortar restaurants, and soon for retailers, by providing them with key consumer insights.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Consumers in Kenya are increasingly turning to eCommerce retailers to purchase their Valentine’s Day gifts. In its Love Index, Mastercard found a 183 percent increase in the number of online transactions between Feb. 11 and 14 from 2015 to 2017, the company said in a press release. Much of that spend took place online.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t announce a lot of details other than the name and that it will be available in the fall with online and offline viewing,” according to one on-scene round-up of the Apple event. “It As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail. Online Gaming.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The company began as a Silicon Valley eCommerce retailer, and has opened 14 stores so far, CNBC reported. Beyond Allbirds, online retailers such as Casper, Everlane and Warby Parker have started to “encroach on the real estate left behind as established retailers,” the outlet noted.

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MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. Another issue is attached to this recent news: Searches – specifically, product searches, which help drive online commerce. YouTube Concerns.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Apart from offering desirable merchandise, Macy’s is increasingly connecting with young Chinese shoppers through online shows.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The direct-to-consumer movement will be the replacement for the retail issues and commerce issues that are going on because of the platforms,” said Armstrong, who founded a DTC company with the aim of changing how people shop online. On Friday (Nov. Armstrong is the former CEO of AOL and used to run Google ads.

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JULY 3, 2019

The retail giant bought Bonobos and ModCloth in 2017 and plus-size brand Eloquii in 2018 in a bid to compete with Amazon. Walmart projects $1 billion in losses for its online eCommerce division, on revenue of between $21 billion and $22 billion. Walmart won’t sell Bonobos, but ModCloth will probably go this year.

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JUNE 24, 2020

On Tuesday (June 23) Instagram announced it was opening social shopping to more businesses including its own influencer community. On Wednesday it followed that with the biggest cosmetics retailer, Sephora. Instead, most plan to increase their investment in online channels like web, apps, social, and third-party marketplaces.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

By all accounts, including industry bible Wine Enthusiast, the wine of the year for 2019 was the Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha 2017. And the wine retailer of the year? The 2019 wine retailer of the year was online – specifically, it was a good year for Wine.com. wine sales are sold online currently.

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MAY 22, 2017

Capturing the ever-changing mindset of millennials can seem like a continual headache for retailers. From sales shifting to more online shopping to more integrated in-store demands, the retail world has been refining its approach to attract and maintain tech savvy shoppers.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2017

Avin Arumugam, senior vice president of the Internet of Things at Visa, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2017, which takes place March 6-7 in San Jose. Arumugam was at JPMorgan Chase for four years prior to his starting at Visa in May 2016. Recent video footage also Read More.

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MAY 22, 2019

billion, a 5 percent increase from 2017’s Q1 result, and ahead of estimates for $17.52 Online sales, however, were the start of the earnings show with a 42 percent surge, driven by the introduction of curbside grocery pickup at Target locations. Online sales now represent 7.1 percent of the retailer’s total sales, up from 5.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I couldn’t think of a more relevant metaphor for the tectonic shifts that have influenced the direction of the payments, commerce and retail ecosystems over the last several years. There are eight such shifts now happening quietly and forcefully beneath the surface of what we define as payments, commerce and retail today.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. Fintech funding has grown tougher for startups, but banks’ balance sheets are looking stronger– what does it mean for innovation?

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., percent CAGR since 2017, according to one recent estimate.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

I couldn’t think of a more relevant metaphor for the tectonic shifts that have influenced the direction of the payments, commerce and retail ecosystems over the last several years. There are eight such shifts now happening quietly and forcefully beneath the surface of what we define as payments, commerce and retail today.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

From August 2017 to April 2018, Eyal and his company allegedly conducted a fraudulent unregistered securities offering by selling Shopin Tokens in an ICO. . Shopin planned to use the funds to compile profiles on shoppers that would be maintained on the blockchain and track purchase histories across online retailers.

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JULY 2, 2018

We think those brands – those with an authentic history and story to tell – are going to be the winners in this changing retail environment.”. In launching their first pop-up shop in Times Square during the holiday season in 2017, Conn noted, they got a very front-row view of the new nature of the transient retail promise.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The Financial Times , citing the trade body UK Finance, reported bad guys were able to steal £1.2bn last year, up from £967m in 2017. UK Finance also found that theft of financial and personal information via social engineering was a big contributor to the fraud losses. Financial scams perpetrated against U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

According the National Retail Federation (NRF), Halloween this year will see record-breaking shopping numbers. More people will be celebrating, which will mean bigger spend on Halloween costumes, candy and pumpkins in 2017 than in previous years. The NRF is forecasting the whole shebang will cost approximately $9.1 billion, up 8.3

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

What is the state of banking innovation today? Each year, we poll the industry to find out. Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […].

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MARCH 6, 2017

The ABA has a new report out on how banks are using social media, and much of the report focuses on using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like to boost customer service, make connections in the community and recruit staff. It often Tweets columns tied to breaking news and statistics. Learn more here.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

It also hosts several free online radio stations broadcasting 24 hours a day in more than 160 countries. Jeff Marsilio, the NBA’s senior vice president of new media distribution, said the tracks will also be on the organization's website, on its app and featured on social media game highlights.

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