PYMNTS

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. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We imagine if presented with an iPhone, penicillin, an automobile or just a ballpoint pen, even the original scribe would have been forced to concede that exciting innovations might be coming up on humanity’s horizon in the intervening 30 centuries. So today (Sept. 30), the card network announced just such a FinTech partnership.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But beyond its analysis to help you in your product journey, data can help transform your marketing efforts, offering insights into customer interests and behaviors to better align your offerings with their expectations. Data analysis and performance marketing do not have to be in-house skillsets. The results?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Overall there is a lot of energy from the omnichannel perspective, as well as a lot of interest in taking the data they have and incorporating it across channels to see how they can reach out to their customers in a way that is most relevant,” Carter explained. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

As a next step in the direction of a digital-first, omnichannel experience, David’s Bridal is teaming with mobile wallet marketing automation platform Popwallet. We are always looking for new and innovative tools to connect with her and we will not stop looking for new ways to surprise her, to delight her, and to serve her.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Customer segment planning and predictive analytics have been absent from any recent retail marketing discussions. Even an astute and sophisticated marketer like Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed to show an absence of data awareness on the company’s earnings call last week. Marketing strategies have been somewhat shoddy during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). Stronger Ties.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Market Roger Karner told Karen Webster for this week’s edition of the Monday Conversation, the lights turn themselves off. The challenge, he noted, isn’t in what can be done, but in how to do it. The one thing we all have to learn: it is not about the innovations themselves.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

It’s a statement borne out by the new Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS/ PSCU collaboration. It’s a powerful starting place and a statistic that gives greater insight into how credit unions in general are crushing loyalty. According to this survey of credit union customers, an overwhelming 81.3 For example, 49.1

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Athleisure is a large and growing market. That is slightly more than the market cap of Walmart , the largest retailer on Earth by sales. On the surface, it seems that a large and growing market should be good news for up-and-comers, particularly given the demographic groups associated with the purchase of athleisure wear.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

QuadPay’s market leading virtual card offering was one of the first to launch in its category, and the company has an unrivalled track record on customer innovation and delivering an exceptional experience for merchants.”. competitors in the booming consumer finance market. competitors in the booming consumer finance market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Now there are more dynamic choices for who and how to process using pre-written code that fits into the software. But when it comes to embedding payments, scale can be a challenge as they enter new markets and expand their customer bases. moving into markets such as Canada, the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. Well, Verishop has officially launched , providing new evidence for how to take on Amazon. High-End Retail. The company generated about $3.3 Retail Challenge.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Karen Webster and Rich Stuppy, chief customer experience officer at Kount , talked about all the recent digital and mobile strides that QSRs have been making — and why they are still behind the curve when it comes to protecting their technology, customers and brand reputations from online criminals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Google the phrase, and one will literally find thousands of results, including articles on how to buy for difficult men and eCommerce sites dedicated entirely to finding the right gift for a special guy. Nearly 10 decades of watch innovation and competition have made fancy watches something of an acquired taste, however. Wire transfer?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?”

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

But if the explosion of products entering the market in the last several years is any indication, we as a nation are at least willing to invest in trying to get more sleep. As recently as the early 2000s, the sleep aid market more or less constituted the sleep medication market. I was so excited about it,” Mundt said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2016

When it comes to payments innovation, the problem with banks and other large financial institutions (FIs) isn’t a lack of interest or aspiration. The modern consumer is digital in many ways: in how they shop, pay, interact with brands and manage their finances. Payments Innovation At Scale .

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. One of the most commonly talked-about and executed strategies in the 2020 connected commerce world is experiential marketing. The consumer now has a candle with a personal brand.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Innovation can sometimes be seen as a solution looking for a problem, but it’s time to stop thinking of technology as bells and whistles and start looking at it as a necessary element of doing business for a changing consumer base – and up against a changing landscape of challenges and threats. That’s a 6.75 2 in the space worldwide.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Karen Webster and Rich Stuppy, chief customer experience officer at Kount , talked about all the recent digital and mobile strides that QSRs have been making — and why they are still behind the curve when it comes to protecting their technology, customers and brand reputations from online criminals.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

No, the only way you can get your hands on these “exclusive” bad boys is if you follow Warby Parker on Snapchat , where the brand shared a Snapchat story with its followers containing a URL taking users to a page where they could purchase the super-limited edition frames, according to TechCrunch. This is a Snapchat exclusive, after all.)”.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

percent of United States consumers have made at least one purchase with new brands since the start of the global health crisis, for example, driven to try out new merchants due to either lower prices or the expectation of a more convenient experience. Deep Dive: How Merchants Can Encourage Consumer Engagement With Flexible Payment Options.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

There was no question of whether they wanted to work with these aggregators, Massaro noted – almost overnight, it was something they had to do to stay relevant, because the rhythm of the travel market had been fundamentally altered. The Challenges of Paying for Adventure Travel .

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. This article breaks down how you can use the ERC Assist product to generate deposits in an innovative way. ERC Assist also serves to differentiate your bank from competitors.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. He has served as Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer since 2016 and has headed the network’s new products and innovation team since 2018.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

There’s an old joke about the guy who’s lost driving in the countryside who stops to ask a pedestrian how to get to the city. The pedestrian replies: “oh, if you want to get there, I wouldn’t start from here”, and this is exactly how banks feel today. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The global contactless payment market is projected to reach $18 billion by 2025, in fact, up from $10 billion last year — a nearly 12 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Contactless payment innovation is underway at the nation’s CUs as the public shuns cash and even physical cards to lower the risks of infection.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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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. Amazon’s Role.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

festival, with more than 200,000 brands participating, one million new products on offer and over 500 million users are expected to participate – about 100 million more than last year,” Alibaba said in a statement. as the Super Bowl for brands,” said Jiang Fan, president of Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall businesses. Think of 11.11

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

FinTech innovation is often a layered process, taking existing infrastructures and processes, and developing new tools to improve upon them. Take, for example, markets like the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and medical supplies space. We’re trying to innovate that because we have a huge opportunity ahead of us.”

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JULY 29, 2019

We are focused on innovating to enable our clients to better serve their customers and end users so they can succeed in a rapidly changing world.”. where Fiserv has a smaller presence, the company is looking at how to move a number of Fiserv solutions “through the First Data distribution system or the First Data network outside the U.S.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

And the question of how to build a workable and innovative model in the developing world is one that has been on Nanu’s mind a lot – though for rather different reasons than it has been on Facebook’s. They want us to focus on true innovation.”. Building Real Innovation for Real Gaps. We don’t want to do this alone.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. However, legacy banks across the globe have been far from idle when it comes to digital and mobile innovation.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand. At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. Social-based marketing. Hyper-connected journey.

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