PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. The country’s Data Protection Law was announced in 2019 and officially came into effect in July 2020. For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends.

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JUNE 14, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Chavez talked about bringing more online efficiencies to pet ownership. The retail chain is rolling out an online pet pharmacy and opening additional veterinary clinics. Meanwhile, Amazon also has its Wag pet food brand, and Target has teamed with BarkBox to offer chew toys and treats online and in-store.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

PayPal finally anticipates monetizing Venmo in 2019, nearly six years after acquiring the P2P service. Venmo's revenue run-rate is over $200 million for 2019, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said in the earnings call Wednesday after market close.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Exagens Corp., Fintel Labs, iGTB, JUDI.AI, KapitalWise, OpenDoor Securities, and Operant.AI

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JULY 30, 2020

Louis colleagues celebrated the Stanley Cup win in 2019. Colleagues now engage in philathropic and social activites through technology like video calls, Microsoft Teams , and social media. This past year showed the resilience of Perficient’s business and colleagues. There was even a virtual retirement party!

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PYMNTS

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. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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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. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

According to research from solutions provider iKala , social commerce orders in the first half of 2020 more than doubled, while gross merchandise value (GMV) grew three-fold compared to 2019. Social commerce is growing rapidly, and every day social media companies are adding new capabilities to support this growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Banks and merchants are racing to meet the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) deadline as September 2019 approaches. Both are looking to maintain quick, efficient service to which end customers have become accustomed when it comes to online purchases and transactions. Deep Dive: Retailers Brace For SCA’s Downsides.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Instagram , the Facebook -owned photo-sharing social media platform, has officially launched a new voice messaging feature on Instagram Direct. This is the latest feature launched by the social media site. 80 percent of India’s online fashion market is controlled by Flipkart-Myntra and Amazon India.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We believe demonstrating full provenance of our diamonds on the most popular social media platform will help us to further strengthen our sales base in China,” he added. The growth is slowing, to be sure — to roughly 8 percent as of the latest stats through the first several months of 2019 — but it is still significant.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Banks do not always have the budgets or resources to craft cutting-edge online and mobile experiences, although they can no longer afford to put off digital transformations. The number of online banking customers is growing worldwide, and FIs’ consumers are coming to expect seamless digital experiences as a result.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2020

Other scams include Medicare/Medicaid fraud using online advertisements for durable medical equipment, or routine products and services that they would normally receive from their physicians but are afraid to go in for an office visit due to the health risk. Ignore online offers for vaccinations. Artificial Intelligence. BSA Software.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

Last year, in fact, some 80 million people bought mobile game tickets – and it is fairly certain that number will continue to increase in 2019 and into 2020. That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

For a business built on a nomadic and innovative business model, the two-year-old firm has reacted quickly and expertly to an unforeseen crisis by pushing into eCommerce. From there, we look at where the people who are interested in us are coming from, based on social media and traditional media.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

noted on its social media accounts that it would be shuttering many of its branches and changing its hours of operation, and American bank JPMorgan Chase announced plans to close about 20 percent of its locations. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing protocols may increase that growth, however. British FI Nationwide U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

According to Flow CEO Rob Keve, advances in social media and the way things are marketed throughout platforms have made it easier for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to reach customers. Solving that problem is among the main tasks of cross-border retail innovation and disruption in this brand new decade.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2019

From smart bags to social media, spring break is becoming a surprisingly digital and high-tech travel period in the U.S. Tinder had also begun an online publication, Swipe Life , and is running various advertising campaigns related to this initiative. So what are the high tech lessons we can learn from spring break 2019?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Nike reported a loss of $790 million during the period ended May 31, compared with net income of $989 million for the same quarter in 2019. Since February, the Nike Commerce App was downloaded more than 8 million times, triple the 2019 level. And the causes of the spike were measured on social media. billion from $10.18

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

“Part of the shift comes from cord-cutting, as fewer young people tune in for live broadcasts of games on major networks and opt instead to stream games online,” the report said. Not only that, but “the transitory nature of social media and its effect on the collective U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Well-received though it was initially, its popularity as a social media channel started to dim as platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat began dominating the market, and ever-fickle consumers found “there were sexier things to do” than rack up Foursquare mayorships. And we actually thought people would think it was a dumb idea.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

The latest Payments And The Platform Economy Playbook examines how marketplaces are using technologies like AI to innovate the customer experience. What else can it do, though, especially for online marketplaces? It’s really connecting the [product] inspiration from social with the retailer’s collection.”. AI For Visual Search.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Millennials and younger generations are digitally minded and want to interact with brands that can answer their personal requests through online and mobile channels. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security. Market Growth and Opportunity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

These podcasts focus on innovation, best practices, learning from past failures and the like. Here’s a sure bet for 2019: not only will you hear much more about the spread of “contextual commerce,” but you will see more of it and may even experience a good deal of it yourself. QSRs as Innovation Hotbeds.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8 billion), Chinese banks comprised the top four banks on the consultancy’s […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Old forms of cybersecurity are not sufficient to keep pace with fraudsters’ increasingly innovative attacks. Facebook reported a 51 percent jump in costs and expenses for the full year of 2019, as the company encountered more questions from policymakers and regulators about its present and planned endeavors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart , the venerable retail chain locked in mortal combat with Amazon, and Green Dot, the 20-year-old payment services provider that has managed to not only survive in a cutthroat industry, but innovate and thrive. In fact, in June 2019, a PYMNTS study of 1,037 U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

And, despite reporting on July 12 that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had reached an agreement to fine Facebook $5 billion, shares in the social media company were up $3.84 Prime Day 2019: Amazon’s All-Time Biggest Shopping Event. and closed at $204.87. Payroll Fraud Could Cost KeyCorp $90M. Trackers/Reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

And déjà vu because Project Libra, Facebook’s 2019 refresh of Credits – only this time with a fancier moniker – will very likely end the same way. First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. Social gaming.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the NPD Group , COVID-19 brought the year’s good start to a halt, with March athletic shoe sales down about 40 percent compared to 2019 and taking a 50 percent hit in April. While stores were closed, Fleet Feet saw tremendous growth in its online business. Specifically, Americans are running through the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In early 2019, Visa launched the “ She’s Next, Empowered by Visa ” initiative to boost women-owned small businesses (SMBs) around the world through shared research, experience and technologies. Since its launch in the U.S. earlier this year, the program has hosted workshops in New York, Atlanta and, most recently, Washington D.C.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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