PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

WeChat Pay Deputy General Manager Lei Maofeng was quoted in South China Morning Post as saying that the company hopes “the cooperation with Luckin coffee will create a new lifestyle of ‘smart retail’ through tie-up on user traffic, technology exploration, application scenarios and management abilities.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

million in a Series B funding round to expand its operations. That round was led by Japanese travel operator H.I.S. — a pairing that might seem a bit odd, as H.I.S is a 38-year-old travel operator that employs close to 17,000 people with offices in over 150 cities in 80 countries worldwide. They reported about $5.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. It’s already happening, of course, albeit tentatively.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

At JDA, we’re focused on being able to enable the entire enterprise to operate in today’s environment,” said Jim Prewitt, JDA’s vice president of retail industry strategy. “So Then, external data from, say, social media can start to round out the picture with its narrative of consumer likes and dislikes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

It may have begun as a way for individuals to take control of the data they share on social media sites, but Ionic Security has begun to shift its focus to securing the data of enterprises and their employees. Data & Business Intelligence. Check out who secured venture capital in our breakdown below.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It entails simplification and building operational efficiency in applications, infrastructure and data to wring costs out of your current environment. The creation of internal centers of excellence (COEs) to develop and share expertise in technology have been seen to help efficiently manage this kind of extraordinary change at scale.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

And they’re doing so by using authentication processing that relies on the rapidly growing available spectrum of big data: AKA the “digital fingerprint” of a consumer. Authentication depends upon access to data, usage of data and acting on that data in real time. Which comes back to how data is being managed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

It’s growing exponentially and must be housed, managed and contained in ways that will keep things kosher under the watchful gaze of regulators. The challenge for FIs is how do you bring it into the mix and combine it with the transaction data that we do have, rationalize it and generate insights that you can then use operationally?”

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NCR

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The growth of alternative channels such as social media and video are changing consumer behavior, and a bank’s distribution strategy must reflect this in order to ensure customers are being given the best value. The need for next generation distribution. Empowering the latest technology.

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social media Strategy Customer Experience Big Data 40

CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Select investors: Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Slow Ventures, Maveron, Tiger Global Management. Walmart’s $3.3B Disclosed funding: $27.4M.

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Company Branding Millennials Retail 57

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

With more and more data, algorithms will become trend hunters — predicting (and designing) what’s next in ways that have never been possible. The company’s big data platform facilitates capabilities like AI-powered fashion discovery and exact-fit clothing and shoe recommendations. Social media accelerates that cycle.

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Industry Branding social media Retail 78

CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The key focus areas are big data analytics and multi-channel customer outreach strategies; projects such as on-can printing, wearable technology, and Bluetooth beacons are noted on the Coca-Cola website. Key People: Anthony Gregorio, Innovation Lab Senior Manager; Prat Vemana, VP Online; Albert Vita, Director of Strategy Insights.

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Innovation Retail Branding Technology 77

Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He said that he thought that this might be where the blockchain makes sense because the transparency around shared reputation management was a positive, whereas sharing private transactions was a negative and would require complex strategies to maintain commercial confidence. I said “stop shouting”. Pretty impressive.

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blockchain United States Payments social media 52

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Loren Felsman, managing director at J.C. Kreditech leverages big data to create better credit scoring technology for consumer borrowers with poor or no credit histories. Kreditech focuses on the current financial health of the borrower, analyzing more than 20,000 data points to establish potential creditworthiness.

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New York social media Capital Big Data 12

Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He said that he thought that this might be where the blockchain makes sense because the transparency around shared reputation management was a positive, whereas sharing private transactions was a negative and would require complex strategies to maintain commercial confidence. I said “stop shouting”. Pretty impressive.

blockchain 46

blockchain United States social media Fintech 46

CB Insights

APRIL 26, 2018

To give a sense of the scope of Baidu’s ambitions: Baidu USA and California -based Access Services – which operates paratransit services for people with mobility issues and disabilities – have partnered to roll out self-driving vehicles across select routes by the end of 2018. Tencent’s push into healthcare AI.

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Google US United States Training 63

CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Daniel Loeb, manager of activist hedge fund Third Point LLC, led an investment of roughly $3B into Nestle in 2017 and launched an attack on the company’s leadership in mid-2018. Nelson Peltz and his fund Trian Fund Management disclosed a $3.5B CPG brands partner with hotels for immersive, social media-friendly experiences.

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Branding Industry Retail Strategy 73