Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Digital banking brand Varo has 1 million customers, and is pushing ahead with plans to become a nationally-chartered bank early next year, CEO Colin Walsh told Bank Innovation Tuesday.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table for over another 200 years when Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. The entirety of the pandemic period has been hard on the airline industry, and it looks like the end of 2020 doesn’t portend smooth skies into 2021.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This Year was brought to you by the number 2020 and the letters W, T and F” – Big Bird (more or less). Sit back and enjoy our take on the best and worst of banking in 2020 as you celebrate the holidays. Most Oft-Heard Statements of 2020. John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank. We can’t think of a thing.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs. Until March of 2020.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 15, 2020

The National Retail Federation's annual conference, taking place this week in New York, is home to many innovations that could change the way merchants accept payments.

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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. The projected share of U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Make sure you give your best smile when you are shopping in 2020. That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. But recent changes have sparked even more interest and innovation from commerce operators. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Nike posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. How Much Will Digital-First Stick? Here’s why I say that.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Perhaps against all odds, Thanksgiving is happening in 2020. All possible joking aside, going into the national day of giving thanks is going to be especially hard on some people this year, simply because of how very little the year has given them to be grateful for. So it’s good to see some major retailers giving back for the holiday.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

The race to 5G retail is on. Recent news out of Asia serves as solid foreshadowing of how 5G could enhance retail in the coming few years. 5G Retail Plans. South Korea’s SK Telecom and retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group have joined forces on 5G retail, for instance. Even so by the latter part of 2019, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

While we are staying true to Chipotle’s heritage, we are also excited to integrate new, innovative physical features into the restaurant that complement our growing digital business,” Chipotle Chief Development Officer Tabassum Zalotrawala said in the announcement. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Industrial production increased 6.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

percent year-over-year debit and credit overall same-store sales volume growth among its owner credit unions over the 2020 holiday season, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. 27 in the retail goods space among the organization’s owner credit unions were up 26.2 Purchases between Nov. percent for debit and 18.1 percent to 5.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Inmar Intelligence , one of the leaders in digital couponing, reported last week that enrollment in digital coupon programs among the top 30 percent of national grocery chains has grown 93 percent year over year since March 1. Now is not the time for CPGs and food retailers to back away from promotional activity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“We are kind of the red-headed stepchild of the alcohol world,” Rowe told INC , noting that despite its outside status, the sales of off-premise mead (mead that’s sold through retailers instead of a meadery) have shot up around 30 percent in the last five years. Last year, the off-premise mead industry generated $9.3

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BankInovation

JUNE 3, 2020

Bank Innovation is proud to announce the Bank Innovation Build 2020 Virtual Experience, designed to provide industry professionals the insights, strategies and best practices to propel their innovation teams to success. Produced by Bank Innovation and Royal Media, Build will take place Sept. 9 and 10 online.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Through focused, innovative products, services, and a redefined operating model, BDB has been stimulating and driving entrepreneurial activity in the country. TCS BaNCS will enable BDB to launch new innovative products faster.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Sanders further notes that Amazon still has growth potential yet to tap and two of the largest secular growth opportunities in retail and cloud computing increasingly under its control. 1 spot by 2020. retail picture, but that slice of the pie is getting larger as well and is expected to reach to 14 percent by 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Electricity would also give innovators their own superpower, an incentive to design and manufacture a whole range of electric-powered appliances – irons, refrigerators, dryers, ovens, stoves, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers – that would do more than save women time “doing chores.”. This national study of 10,000 U.S. 15 and Aug.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 Analysts reported that physical retail sales, seasonally adjusted, were up 2.7 And what we also see is only one part of the retail sales story. percent growth in June.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Santa: The Original Experiential Retail Strategy. Santa showing up in retail marketing, as far as historians can tell, dates back to the 1840s when some stores went as far as putting up life-sized models of jolly old St. And while much has changed in retail, Santa’s popularity has not. In fact, it is growing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

Phillips Edison & Company , a fully integrated real estate firm with a national platform of grocery-anchored shopping centers, released its industry insights on trending themes for retail shopping centers this week at ICSC’s RECon event in Las Vegas. The retail industry at large continues to step-up their game,” said Conway.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

on Halloween 2020, we’re confronted with the prospect of a long, strange COVID winter. Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Contactless payments took wing in 2020 and, given the venture capital flowing into facilitating greater payments choice overall, it’s a safe bet that digital-first payments are here to stay.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Just as businesses are reevaluating supply lines, consumers too are considering their own retail mix, and figuring out where convenience stores fit into their reformulating post-pandemic lifestyles. Convenience stores also helped pioneer faster POS terminals, among other retail innovations. A good example is Wawa Inc.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Reed was involved in California’s watershed privacy law, which could act a model for a national law. billion for the first half of 2020. Bruce Reed, Joe Biden’s top technology advisor, sets the stage for a Biden White House administration that will get tough on tech. Bitcoin Rally Triggered By PayPal, Square Buying Spree.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

As Walgreens made “substantial progress” on accelerating its digitalization, among other strategic priorities, the pharmacy chain had fiscal 2020 first-quarter revenues of $34.3 billion and adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.37 per an announcement from the company on Wednesday (Jan. as well as the U.K., billion in revenues and $1.41

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. Overall, digital innovation has been a game-changer for easing the pandemic fallout for QSRs, fast-casual eateries and fast-food chains. That will all change on Oct.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation. However, a retail CBDC accessible to all would be a game-changer. So a retail CBDC is now [the ECB’s] main focus.”. Mersch added that a retail CBDC could be based on deposit accounts with the central bank.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

After rumors of decline, CUs kicked off the roaring 2020s with higher metrics across the board – mortgage loans up by a staggering 81 percent, loan originations up almost 30 percent year over year, and non-real estate loans up by double digits. Seems that everybody likes credit unions—including cybercrooks. The Trust Factor.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Forrester Research shows that as early as July 2020, 80% of US providers had conducted a virtual consult in the prior three months. Those options can become a point of differentiation and maybe even a means of educating and increasing comfort levels with a nationally scaled-up contact tracing program. vaccine scheduling, tracing, etc.)

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Company Co-Founder and Partner Dana Settle told Bloomberg that Greycroft plans to use the fresh funds to invest in retail-oriented businesses, although it's also interested in working with health technology, financial technology and grocery-related businesses. Salesforce Ventures . Fifth Wall And BNP Raise Funds For European Property Tech .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

There were a lot of superlatives associated with 2020, only a few them on the positive side. 21) at a virtual conference hosted by the National Retail Federation as part of its keystone 2021 event. But there were some notable exceptions, including this one: It was the biggest year for s’mores in history.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

UPS Caps Deliveries From Gap, Nike, Other Big Retailers. UPS reportedly told drivers this week to pass pickups from Gap, Nike, Macy’s, and several other large retailers — with “no exceptions,” a rule drivers have not seen before, in an attempt to keep up with a holiday shopping season unlike any other. Top Trackers And Reports.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

9, 2020, the stock market hit a high not seen since February, shortly before the world would feel the brunt of the global pandemic. and global economy for most of 2020. PYMNTS fielded a national consumer study of 2,806 U.S. On that day, Nov. That’s assuming most people got the vaccine. consumers on Nov.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

To understand when and how consumer demand will return and the impact it will have on federal and state efforts to reopen the economy, we need consistently refreshed data from a large national sample to get out of the quarantine “information bubbles” and see the big picture. Sometimes it can be both, depending on the business.

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