PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. Consumers who link their loyalty membership to Starbucks Rewards Visa credit or prepaid card will not have to worry about expiring points, either, and the green and gold rewards tiers will be removed with the new offering.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

eCommerce platforms and marketplaces are leveling the retail playing field by connecting buyers who have specific needs with groups of sellers that can meet them,” said Bill Ready, chief operating officer at PayPal. Hyperwallet has offices in Austin, London, San Francisco, Sydney and Vancouver.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Things were a bit more active on the Amazon front, with a big infrastructure investment pushing its market cap back over the $1 trillion line, a new B2B financing partnership with Goldman Sachs potentially in the offing and its expanding stores and services menu. Market Cap Watch: Back to the Trillionaire Club With Logistic Investments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Pine Labs , which started as an offline retail payment provider in 1998, has since evolved to become a payment acceptance, stored value and in-store customer credit company that enables consumers to opt into installment payments plans online or at the point of sale in a physical store. The Frictionless Flow .

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was well attended, with broad representation from all institution sizes and markets. Presentations focused on targeted marketing for “moneyhawks” , new P2P models (e.g. One spoke of the need to market correctly.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

“We’re happy to bring our customers in San Francisco and Atlanta the convenience of free two-hour delivery through Prime Now and access to thousands of natural and organic groceries and locally sourced favorites,” John Mackey, Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Users can then check out using a credit card to gain access to the item. The concept serves as an experiential marketing avenue for product manufacturers and retailers. The Automated Retail Market. The vending and unattended retail space is taking off. The report also found that 35 percent of surveyed U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2017

More fintech is coming to Austin. Austin is known for having a thriving Read More. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended retail.” Retailers are paying more attention to vending machines, a trend that is all but certain to continue into the 2020s. Vending Machine Trends.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s director of sales and marketing, Stephen Robertson, told PYMNTS in an interview that the company has a “striking amount of walk-in customers” who buy coffee from the company directly. To make a purchase, consumers can come up to the device, swipe their cards (or tap with Apple Pay or Google Pay), and select their choice.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s director of sales and marketing, Stephen Robertson, told PYMNTS in an interview that the company has a “striking amount of walk-in customers” who buy coffee from the company directly. To make a purchase, consumers can come up to the device, swipe their cards (or tap with Apple Pay or Google Pay), and select their choice.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the current growth rate needs to be left to each bank based on their capital cost, market, and risk tolerance, the general guide is that growth should be in the 3% to 5% range for this year. When offering a higher money market or CD rate, the direct damage done to cost of funds is often the least of a bank’s worries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

They can then select a host, which could be, say, a retail store or hotel, and enter their drop-off and pick-up times in addition to their number of small and/or large bags. Pricing and Target Market. The company’s target market, Korbel said, runs “the gamut.” It will serve the college student who is in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The Market. All Y’alls Foods’ target market is broader than just vegetarians. To get the word out about its products and educate the market, All Y’alls Foods is working with a few moderate influencers, who might have 25,000 to 50,000 social media followers. It is powered by Shopify and accepts credit card payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

PYMNTS caught up with CEO Christian Deger to find out what keeps Payworks “pulsing” away in the global payments market of gateway providers. Based in Munich, the company is taking on the European POS gateway technology market and has recently opened its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas. What Is Payworks Doing Differently?

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

With any chronic health condition, your body is working so hard to keep you stable, so there is not a lot of bandwidth for something like Covid-19,” Austin-based SNAP beneficiary Ariel Smith told the Times. We’re looking forward to being able to bring the benefits of the online market to low-income Americans participating in SNAP.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

Sometime in the near future, a gig economy or remote worker who lives in an apartment building in Austin, Texas might start their day like this: They will leave their apartment and walk downstairs to a coffee shop where they will grab an iced latte. The Target Market. For one, common spaces aren’t always used to their full potential.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

At the same time, Gandhi noted the product and quality of apartments have grown so rapidly that the market has facilitated a true boutique experience, a concept he doesn’t think was available even 10 years ago. For payments, Locale accepts credit cards (and does not take cash). The Apart-Hotel Market.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Inspired by tweets from customers hungry for delivery, Popeyes has teamed up with Uber Eats in select markets. The move comes as the delivery market seems ripe for Popeyes’ fare: Uber Eats said that orders for fried chicken have jumped by 54 percent and orders for biscuits have skyrocketed 83 percent over the past year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

It wasn’t until 2015 that Austin-based Cece’s Veggie Co. The numbers back up that assertion: worldwide, the gluten-free pasta market is expected to grow to $1.28 million in 2017, according to a report earlier this summer by Allied Market Research. The market for veggie noodles has grown, and Cece’s Veggie Co.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Enhanced card management and personalized transactions are among the new features for the latest edition Malauzai Software’s mobile and online banking SmartApps. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Malauzai Software demonstrated its MOX Pay Powered by Visual App Builder at FinovateSpring 2016.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. NFC penetration at launch was 15 large retailers’ stores and some 200k merchant locations. Today, Apple says that number is north of 2 million worldwide, some 1 million in the U.S. (Of

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2012.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Financing solutions for retailers & manufacturers. HQ: Austin, Texas. Prepaid debit card for youth. HQ: Austin, Texas. Tags: SMB, merchant, payments, POS, point of sale, credit/debit cards, acquiring. Source: Crunchbase. Mobile savings account. Latest round: $22.5 million Series B. Total raised: $36.3

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

The retailer reported earnings per share of $0.64 Digital sales continue to grow for the company and make up more of the retailer’s sales, with digital sales rising by nearly 20 percent in the first quarter. Despite the earnings and revenue beat, shares fell more than 7 percent on Tuesday (May 22) as of market close.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Developer tools for mobile card acceptance . HQ: Austin, Texas. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. Curated stock & market ideas. Tags: Credit cards, processing, SMB, merchants, developers, API, Finovate/FinDEVr alum. Source: Crunchbase. CardFlight. HQ: New York City.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Austin, Texas. Edgewater Markets. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Automated lending solutions for financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. And monetize.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The Co-Working Market. Beyond WorkChew, Austin, Texas’ Reset allows consumers to use restaurants as co-working spaces, with options to access a site ranging from a drop-in day pass to a 10-visit pass and an unlimited monthly membership available for purchase with a major credit card.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 22, 2015

The c redit and fraud monitoring is powered by CSIdentity (CSID), an Austin-based firm that says it powers 80% of the retail identity theft protection industry. And with BillGuard, users get credit/debit card transaction monitoring (powered by Yodlee ) for free. Black market alerts (Ultimate only). $1

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 11, 2018

While commercial lending and treasury management remains the money maker for more than 75% of my clients, most of those clients have a retail-heavy, if any, digital strategy. Lots of presentations on voice banking, Alexa, how we’ll bank when we’re all zipping around in self-driving cards, etc. Just wish D3 could come down market a bit.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. If making money on operations was a near impossibility, Kozmo seemed perpetually on the precipice of tapping into the public equity markets. via Forbes.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. As we become more conscious of avoiding frequently touched surfaces, touchless modes of entry will displace traditional card swiping. Our cashier-less tech market map can be found here. Store Checkout Tech.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The result was Domio, a site that allows travelers to use apartments in cities such as Austin, New Orleans, Nashville and San Diego. In order to stay in one of the listings, travelers can book through the company’s website using their credit or debit cards. More specifically, he said that millennials are more outwardly mobile.

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