PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Merchants from grocers to quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and gas stations rolled out new ways for consumers to transact from mobile ordering to scan-and-go checkout in 2018. Amazon, however, isn’t the only retailer that deployed similar technology this year. It plans to bring the technology to about a quarter of its U.S.-based,

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GonzoBankers, 2018 has been a troublesome year. about the best and worst in banking for 2018 and get fired up to start again in ’19. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the 2018 GonzoBanker Awards ! Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To that end, ownership of the key enabler of contactless payments – that would be smartphones, of course – is up, reaching 90 percent in 2019 versus 84 percent in 2018. In paying for their retail purchases online and in store, in terms of the overall respondent pool, 9.6 percent of the bridge millennials and 42.2 featured 4.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A good education on this online retail trend — an education backed by original data — comes from Azita Habibi, business development lead at Braintree , a payments services firm owned by PayPal. online shoppers leave behind $1.79 digital technology is helping to ease those hassles and delays (the main issue, in fact).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. Domestic and international leisure travelers spent $762 billion in 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

But don’t get too carried away — during the 2018 holiday season, most U.S. Drawing on figures from eMarketer , a new report said that “only one in eight Americans will do their holiday shopping online this year. Digital is certainly the bee’s knees, the rad kid of commerce, the hippest person in the place. 26 to hit $7.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In doing so, we bring the power of community to buying and selling online. Pairing technology with the inherent human desire to socialize, our marketplace creates passion and personal connections among users.”. million in 2018 and $48.7 But things turned around later in the pandemic as shoppers moved online. 30 quarter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Financial technology providers are partnering up to offer expanded mPOS capabilities to merchants, which are looking for tools to avoid long checkout lines. charitable giving market come from online donations , and the canned tuna industry is adapting to the tastes of millennials and younger consumers amid a decline in consumption.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The conveniences of fast food are getting even more convenient now that McDonald’s is gearing up to roll out the ability to order and pay for a Big Mac online. According to a report by The Next Web , McDonald’s is gearing up to launch the new app that will support online orders next year. Take Domino’s, for one example.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Here at PYMNTS our resident expert in thinking outside of the lines as laid out by conventional wisdom is Karen Webster — and summer 2018 has been a particularly good time for drawing long and unexpected lines way outside the box, and into a rapidly changing future. AKA thinking outside of the box.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Amid a double-digit increase in digital sales and a focus on omnichannel efforts, Kohl’s Corporation beat analysts’ top-line revenue and earnings estimates for the fourth-quarter of 2018. Rewards and Millennials. The department store retailer reported revenues of $6.8 billion and earnings per share of $2.24 billion and $2.18

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Telehealth technology. Remote learning technology. Online courses & content.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These “ghost kitchens” are delivery-only, with owners spending less on property and directing funds into technological investments, lower menu prices and other concerns. based QSRs draw millennials consumers, with half of this age group reporting that they place more deliveries now than they did two years ago.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Fintech is often associated with digital tools targeted at tech-savvy millennials. Capital One, for example, has partnered with Older Adults Technology Services and the National Council on Aging to create a series of free online courses to educate seniors about digital banking: Ready, Set, Bank. . Source: Capital One.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

No matter what, though, the present and future of real Christmas trees — even if bought in a weekend frenzy — owes much to digital technology, eCommerce and the consumer preferences of younger buyers. It’s always been easy to buy an artificial tree online,” Hundley said. Now it’s easy to buy a real tree online.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. And the retailer ponied up a reported $200 million for pieces of Seattle-based startup CareZone ’s technology, which personalizes prescription drug management for individuals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. Half of global online transactions are expected to take place in Asia this year. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4

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Accenture

MAY 7, 2019

This got me thinking—in the Instagram and Facebook era of instant online gratification, just how important is the ability to create a relationship with a bank at the swish of your mobile? As of December 2018, Revolut had 200,000 Irish customers , an increase of fourfold in just over a year. The Know-Your-Customer (KYC) conundrum.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

That company recently made its own play to have more of a digital and mobile role in the restaurant world, buying Preoday , a firm that focuses online ordering technology, increasingly important — even table stakes — to every operation from global fast-food chains to local fish-and-chip lunch counters. Deeper Trends.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Aside from Kalanick , other investors included online supermarket Ocado’s chief executive Tim Steiner; Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen; and Indian ad-tech billionaire Div Turakhia. . The startup uses 3D printing technology to build its hotels in Mexico, where Ripley says 100 rooms per month can be built. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

Most estimates for 2018 are around $900 million. The term eSports can refer to a wide range of games in the competitive space, but in general the most popular ones are in the first-person shooter or multi-player online battle arena genres. Consumers are buying Tilly’s products online, as digital growth was up 22 percent in 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

One-third of Gen Z members and more than one-quarter of millennials will make secondhand purchases in 2019 due to environmental concerns and cheaper prices, for example. The online thrifting market combines both of these factors, making it especially popular among both demographic groups. AI and the importance of personalization.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And that’s unlikely to change in 2019 or beyond, given the growing purchasing power of bridge millennials. So-called online-only retailers — including Amazon — operate some 630 physical retail locations in the U.S., percent of shoppers who bought something via smartphone first discovered that item online. Cashierless Checkout.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The findings — reflected in the list below — take into account the newest payment technologies while also paying attention to legacy methods that for various reasons continue to command consumer and business loyalties. 11, otherwise known as Singles’ Day , a big online shopping event in that country. 3: Via Automatic Payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Financefeeds reported that the HKMA, in its latest update to implementation of the Open Application Programming Interface (API) Framework for the banking sector, which dates back to July 2018, is readying for the second phase, known as Customer acquisition. Corporate Banking, Done Digitally. ” In India, Too. As noted last week.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Consumers have been using internet technology for everything from nonessential health services to ordering from restaurants in the last few years, especially shopping more frequently online for retail products and groceries. Introduction. businesses in a vulnerable financial situation. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A growing group of consumers — particularly millennials and other young shoppers — are embracing connected grocery offerings. Online and mobile food sales are projected to have a 13 percent annual growth rate in 2018, with digital supermarket sales projected to reach $100 billion by 2025. Instacart Growth.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

In doing so, we bring the power of community to buying and selling online. Pairing technology with the inherent human desire to socialize, our marketplace creates passion and personal connections among users.”. million in 2018 and $48.7 31 were millennial or Gen Z consumers. After losing $14.5 million in the Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

As covered by PYMNTS , Neiman Marcus has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile, an online company that sells pre-owned designer handbags and other similar products. The move follows a failed relationship, one that ended in 2016, with The RealReal, an online luxury reseller that is mulling an initial public offering for this year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A 2018 report in Forbes cited research from the Journal of Business Venturing, which found that equity crowdfunding is often a last resort for SMBs when traditional and internal funding options run dry. There is a growing class of individuals, who tend to be millennials , who have a subtle but general aversion to legacy finance,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

The IRS has accepted digitally filed tax documents and issued digital refunds for years, and it received approximately 29 million electronic returns via direct deposit between February 2018 and February 2019. organizations in 2018, though, so their benefits no longer outweigh the other drawbacks. Check fraud affected 70 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

And while Tesla has been a connected vehicle leader, other players in the industry such as Ford, Daimler and Volvo are launching offerings equipped with technology. From automakers to retailers and online platforms, companies around the world are tapping into connected commerce technology in automobiles and mobile devices.

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