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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. In 2018 alone, the company generated $100 million in revenue. Such trends, she continued, make it even more important for companies operating in the healthcare space to scale — and that’s another benefit of the DBI acquisition.

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MAY 1, 2020

these programs appear to have remained the same in most markets. The EU’s PSD2 and GDPR regulations were passed in 2018 and designed with a primary focus on interoperability between open banking systems around the world. FIs have long been the dominant players in the financial market. The Interoperability Dream .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

While there has been some innovation in wage payment mechanisms as more employers shift away from the paper check toward direct deposit and payroll cards, little has changed about the timing of those payments. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold. I incorporated the business the next month, in April 2018.”. A New Normal For Payroll.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

300: Minimum number of brands enabled by personalization platform operator Dynamic Yield. markets in which Starbucks delivers. 0.8%: Share by which alcohol consumption declined in 2018. Data: 23,000: Number of McDonald’s restaurants offering delivery. 65%: Share of KFC orders made via drive-thru lanes. 16: Number of U.S.

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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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APRIL 4, 2019

For the fourth quarter of 2018 , Chipotle increased its foot traffic and benefited from higher product prices, and posted year-over-year same-store sales growth of 6.1 For the full year of 2018, digital accounted for 10.9 This was all accomplished without increasing our overall marketing budget,” he said, without offering more detail.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2019

More potential roadblocks to connected vehicles emerge, and new PYMNTS research dug deep into trade credits and corporate credit innovation. Mastercard Revs Its Payments Innovation Engine. The busy morning activity in a coffee shop resembles the new Mastercard innovation push. Top Performers. Visa Talks AI’s Global Impact.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, the global retail electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology company, announced on Monday (July 30) that it has grown its worldwide self-checkout (SCO) market share by 46 percent, according to research and consulting company RBR.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

By being more transparent with in-store technology, brands can help dispel some of the negative connotations around ‘push marketing.’ Beacons are small, battery-operated wireless devices that transmit Bluetooth signals to nearby smartphones,” explains another recent report. “In The market is growing and will reach some $10.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. Consumers are buying Tilly’s products online, as digital growth was up 22 percent in 2018. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market. Larger Trends. More Money.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s. Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Customer Patience.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the company back then. With the acquisition, Visa hopes to boost its 'network of networks' strategy, reducing the time to market and costs for issuers and processors who need to access innovative operating solutions, the release says.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Innovators and industry leaders across the marketplace will discuss the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning and how they are being used to give security firms new insights from risk management to compliance. There will also be many great panel discussions at SIFMA 2018. IBM keynote. IBM panelists.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 25, 2022

The CFPB announced earlier this week that as part of a new approach to innovation in consumer finance, it is replacing its Office of Innovation and Operation Catalyst with a new office, the Office of Competition and Innovation, and eliminating its No Action Letter (NAL) and Compliance Assistance Sandbox (CAS) programs.

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MAY 13, 2019

In the unattended retail space, vending operators are also becoming more aware of the shifting behaviors of their shoppers and the need for swift and digital payment options. The estimated value of the global intelligent vending machine market by 2025 is $15 billion. And digital disruptors are putting a new spin on vending machines.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It was only (relatively) recently that B2B payments finally secured significant attention and investment from innovators. That’s one trend we’ll see a lot more of [in 2018].” ” There’s evidence to support his sentiment that B2B payments haven’t evolved as quickly as innovators may have liked.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they’re preparing for it. I’m the Principal for the Digital Marketing Solutions Business Unit here at Perficient. What will be different this holiday season and how to adjust your strategy accordingly.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

As Karen Webster pointed out, the first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business 558 years ago. It’s not easy work — and that is why there are far more “Uber of X’s” consigned to the scrap help of innovation history than there are successful Ubers in the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s. Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Customer Patience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s. Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Customer Patience.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. The company generated about $3.3 Retail Challenge.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Savvy healthcare innovators leverage the power of consumerization by first observing what works in domains outside of their own, and then adapting those successes to address their own challenges. What might you learn from studying emerging innovations used by virtual personal trainers, e-learning platforms, or even credit card companies?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Just last week, Deloitte found that in 2016 alone, nearly 27,000 new blockchain projects surfaced on the market. EY Ops Chain and SAP Leonardo will help companies quickly develop and deploy blockchain solutions that connect business operations across their systems, on a platform already widely used by companies worldwide.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Storonsky said Revolut wants to develop “many more innovative products” that will advance “innovation and competition” across the financial services sector. Revolut was granted a European Union banking license in Lithuania in December 2018 and has begun operations in central Europe. billion valuation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Halo Cars is still very small and operates in only a few cities. million in the fourth quarter of 2018. Lyft Co-founder and CEO Logan Green said that product innovation was a “key driver of our growth,” and that “innovation is what powers our ability to deliver the right product to the right customer at the right time.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

trillion in 2018. New technologies and API infrastructures are also leading to rapid innovations in the PaaS space, including quicker payments than ever before. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also driving payments innovations, with a study finding that it could add $1.2 How Customer Expectations Have Driven Payments Innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Along with digital transformation, innovation has been a buzzword for some time. These may seem like abstract concepts, but innovation has had concrete results in the financial industry. In partnership with i2c , PYMNTS produced the March 2019 Innovation Readiness Index to assess the state of innovation in the financial industry.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Starbucks saw strong growth in its loyalty program and mobile transactions over its second fiscal quarter of 2018, the company announced ahead of its earnings call. company-operated sales. company-operated transactions during the quarter. company-operated transactions during the quarter. The coffee chain added 1.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

B2B payments are an instrumental component of global trade and of setting the stage for currencies to operate as global instruments of cross-border trade. Three unnamed sources told Reuters that Chinese officials are opening up its large-value payment system to operate 21 hours a day, with the ability to process payments overnight.

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Insights on Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Given IBM’s experiences helping clients accelerate their digital transformation journey with Cloud and AI, we’re particularly excited that “Enabling the digital economy” is the Sibos 2018 conference theme. Jim Brill, IBM Financial Services Marketing. IBM at Sibos 2018. Stay tuned for more blogs on Sibos 2018!

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MARCH 25, 2020

Dan is a highly regarded leader and accomplished executive with operational expertise and over two decades of deep experience in the FinTech space. He is also an innovator who has spearheaded, built and operated two publicly-traded payments companies,” said Jacobs. 31, 2019 showed an increase in total operating revenues of $249.3

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JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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