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APRIL 4, 2018

Just because a retailer was created for the internet doesn’t mean it has to stay on the internet. Digitally-native retailers, such as thredUP , are turning to brick-and-mortar stores to reach consumers, too. thredUP, though, works a little differently from traditional retailers. by the end of 2018, CNBC reported.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Iconic American retailers that have been around more than 100 years are creating new concepts for the new era of retail. Through that offering, which will be offered at the Kansas and Louisiana stores, the retailer will send shoppers emails when their items are ready. In Other Brick-And-Mortar Retail.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. It is currently the third-largest company competing in the country’s retail space. “We

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Supreme Court’s order, according to reports , essentially opens the door to other such lawsuits — and could serve to increase the pressure on eCommerce operators to make their online and mobile stores accessible to consumers with disabilities. Domino’s stands out for its retail innovations. Domino’s Innovations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As more retailers try to get more shoppers into their stores – not everything is about eCommerce, after all – new technologies are playing a big role. Many retailers use beacons now, but they’re almost always hidden,” that report said. percent since 2018. It’s a great time to be transforming retail,” Levene said.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Imagine one big party of more than 1,000 larger bank acquirers, smaller bank potential sellers, salivating investment bankers, and pen-in-hand attorneys full of big grins and big plans for 2018. As Kirk Wycoff, Managing Partner from Patriot Financial Partners pointed out: 50% of a mid-size commercial bank’s deposits are retail.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

L’Occitane originated in the French region of Provence — though today it is headquartered in Luxembourg and Switzerland — and currently operates locations in 90 countries with 3,285 retail outlets. billion euros in net sales ($148 billion) and 142 million euros ($161 billion) in operating profit last fiscal year.

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JUNE 17, 2020

upheld a 2018 ruling by a lower court, the Court of Appeal, that payments firms Visa and Mastercard had restricted competition for retailers by levying fees on transactions, known as multilateral interchange fees (MIF). The high court’s dismissal of Visa and Mastercard’s appeal paves the way for the retailers to seek compensation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Sweden’s oldest retail bank will face a hefty $386 million fine for a scandal that erupted last year over the bank’s poor handling of money laundering issues in the Baltic region, according to Reuters Thursday (March 19). Swedbank’s CEO and much of the board were fired as a result.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There was lots to watch in the world of payments and commerce last week, with red flags flown in physical retail, international commerce and crypto. Physical Retail Stumbles Into 2020 . The year got off to something of a rocky start for physical retailers, as the recent spike in store closures carried on and even picked up strength.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Xiaomi globally made less than 1 percent profit margin from hardware or device sales in 2018, and we have stated that will never make more than 5 percent profit margin on hardware. The company relies on three financial benchmarks — devices, retail and services — and it hasn’t monetized any of its services just yet.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As it stands, the company operates two distribution centers in the Sao Paulo area and will bring facilities to other regions to offer faster delivery in a country that is bigger than the continental U.S. Early outlay guidance for 2020 comes after investments of 2 billion reais in Brazil in 2018 and 3 billion reais in 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Namdhari’s Fresh operates more than 30 stores in Bengaluru, in the southern part of India. Flipkart launched its grocery unit in 2018, teaming with Supermart in Bengaluru. In February, new eCommerce rules went into effect that prohibited foreign eCommerce companies from owning a large stake in local online retailers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

. $172 billion: The value of peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers consumers made via their bank accounts in 2018. 10 : The number of countries in the region in which Grab operates. 67 percent: The share of Australian citizens expected to use real-time payments by 2023.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Albertsons will convert its existing pharmacies to Rite Aid stores, while current Rite Aid locations will operate as standalone pharmacies. Together, the company will operate around 4,350 pharmacy counters and 320 clinics across 38 states and Washington, and will be worth around $83 billion. The net result? That comes as 16.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Amazon had record sales on Cyber Monday orders, but had to contend with regional winter storms. Amazon launched one-day delivery in April, prompting FedEx to cancel its agreement with the online retailer. However, deliveries were still on time, with Amazon calling the ShipMatrix data “inaccurate.”. ShipMatrix said that 93.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Lower ATM operating revenue in the U.K. ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 ATM operating revenue, meanwhile, declined 15 percent year over year to $329.8 North American ATM operating revenue increased 3 percent, but was offset by lower revenue in the U.K. Late Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, though.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe Atlas (business incorporation tool) and Stripe Sigma (business analytics and reporting) can help simplify business operations. Stripe often states that less than 8% of total commerce occurs online, suggesting roughly $26T in global, omnichannel retail sales. Source: Stripe.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

That comes from Michael Berner, the consumer business manager of the Russian operations, who is also a Citi Russia board member. As noted by the newswire, western banks through the past five years have faced increasing pressure in the region, in part due to sanctions levied in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities. Europe was the first region to adopt EMV technology, and sees a transaction rate of more than 99 percent. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however. Fraudsters can use fake IDs and stolen cards to place orders and quickly make off with items before retailers catch on. Understanding The Merchant Sector. The card industry’s 3D Secure 2.0

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MAY 12, 2020

Cao has served as senior vice president in charge of store operations and customer service since 2018. Before joining Luckin, he had more than 23 years of experience at McDonald’s China and served in various positions, including vice president and North regional manager.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

New research shows that Google gained ground on Amazon ’s global smart speaker share for the second quarter of 2018. The research shows that Amazon’s shipments fell to 41 percent in Q2 2018 from 44 percent in Q1, and from 76 percent in Q2 of last year.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. Consider the fact that Amazon started its program in 2018 to work with smaller firms to get packages where they needed to go.

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

Digital banking startups — or challenger banks — have gained traction over the past few years by bringing retail banking services mobile. Banks in Fintech: what’s ahead in 2018. What we’re watching in 2018. Join us for data-driven look at how major banks are approaching fintech investments and taking on insurgents.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. The “whose customer is it” question is now at the core of a number of the platform dynamics at play today and experiences that shoppers and retailers have with those platforms. Trackers And Reports . In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Starbucks has opened its first store in Jamaica, making it the international coffee retailer’s 76th global market. According to news from Chain Store Age , this latest brick-and-mortar location also represents Starbucks’ 17th market in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Owned and operated by Ant Financial Services Group, Alipay is the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform. The announcement came just in time for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, currently underway and being held in PyeongChang, South Korea. China is expected to process $3.29 trillion by 2020.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. why profitability won’t come easy.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

Many of SoftBank’s portfolio companies operate across a variety of different industries. Retail & consumer. SoftBank has invested in 35 companies in the retail & consumer sector in 2021 so far, making it the most popular sector among its 2021 investments. We’ve categorized companies according to top focus areas.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Go-Jek funding news underscores the heavyweight backing of strategic investors, where for example, Mitsubishi has an eye on collaboration potential between far-flung businesses that span operations already in Indonesia, such as logistics and convenience stores. billion seen in 2017. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The app will be available on the App Store for iPhones in Q2 of 2020, and additional accessibility and regional availability will come in the future. Power 2018 U.S. And Snapchat operator Snap is doubling down on AR usage as they implement many features that allow users to experiment and play with the new technology.

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Accenture

JUNE 20, 2019

And nearly 80 percent of bank operations leaders say their organization’s existence could be threatened without flexible technology for rapid innovation. Consider this: CFOs of a regional health system and a global retailer use the same tool, even though their cash management needs could not be more different.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

In the ICC’s Global Survey 2018 report, researchers found supply chain finance at the top of banks’ priorities, with 42 percent of respondents prioritizing growth in supply chain finance in the year ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

By paying for the authorization to deliver to the mailbox, the thinking is that the postal service top line will get a boost and the ink at the operating line will get blacker. At the same time, the company has operating margins in the high-single digits, which show that FedEx can deploy at least some strategic levers here.

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