PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Well, we’re talking about creative and innovative packing as the next big thing in retail. But lately, that’s all started to change, as many retailers are embracing bolder, more colorful and less “square” boxes as a way to make their products stand out on the ever-crowded shelves of retaildom.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. January — Wet Seal.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. 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. COI marketing for banks should always be a top priority.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. Here is how different industries are innovating with subscriptions. in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. Retail offices: 85. But then again, Rockland Trust Co. is not typical. Alex Jimenez. Rockland, Mass.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

If Nordstrom is looking to strengthen its eCommerce capabilities, the retailer certainly looked to the right place in a recent hire. In announcing Srinivasan’s hiring, shares CSA, Nordstrom highlighted its new CTO’s experience developing “highly innovative customer-focused outcomes” and cloud expertise.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

The updated logo is true to our heritage, but it’s really cleaned up,” Best Buy Chief Marketing Officer Whit Alexander said in an article on the retailer’s website. But The Verge offered another interpretation: It’s minimizing the price bag as brick-and-mortar retail diminishes. Back in 2011, Best Buy opened seven new stores.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The subscription commerce market has grown at an impressive rate, having increased by more than 300 percent over the past seven years. In the July Subscription Commerce Tracker , PYMNTS explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

billion in its last fiscal year, which accounts for more than it spent between 1998 and 2011 when it was creating the iPod, iPad, and iPhone — and is growing it at a faster clip than its revenue growth. by market cap, Apple was the largest but ranked sixth in terms of R&D spending.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 28, 2016

Back in 2011, I wrote a report titled Innovative Payment Startups: Bank Friends or Foes? In the report, I looked at companies presenting at the inaugural FinovateEurope and concluded: “Banks have little to fear from this particular group of payment innovators. The question is not necessarily new.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

The warehouse club retailer also said that it plans for each share to be issued in a range between $15 to $17, leading to a market cap topping $2.15 When private equity partners Leonard Green & Partners and CVC Capital Partners took the company private in September 2011, the deal was worth almost $3 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

The online retail giant’s estimated market cap sat at just a tad over $439 billion—nearly twice that of Walmart. The big play Amazon made in the past few weeks came in a form not normally associated with eCommerce, at least not in the more mature digital markets. This week, Amazon is at it again.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

There are still retail clerks and waiters; tailors and dry cleaners; drivers and warehouse workers — just as there were when the 21st century got off the ground. Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. Some lasted; some did not.

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

Digital banking startups — or challenger banks — have gained traction over the past few years by bringing retail banking services mobile. We define challenger banks as fintech companies leveraging technology and software to digitize and streamline retail banking. Banks in Fintech: what’s ahead in 2018. First Name.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

“Since we launched the card in 2011, our cardmembers’ buying habits have evolved, which is why we’re evolving the card, too,” said Kunal Madhok, vice president of U.S. American Express said the Blue Cash Preferred Card will still offer 6 percent cash back in U.S. supermarkets and 3 percent cash back at U.S. gas stations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

What’s the hottest new industry in retail? A new approach toward facial hair grooming among younger consumers has directly impacted the men’s personal care market. Online distribution allowed it to get products into consumers’ hands without a costly retail presence. How about the razor. Despite the fact that many U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Overstock Officially Saying Goodbye to Retail. Though the outcome has been long speculated and hinted at, Overstock made it official this week, announcing it will be selling off its retail business in the next few months as it gears up to focus full-time on its blockchain initiatives. after acquiring its market-leading rival.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

The company’s name is a word that consumers use a lot, and it’s one that is spoken in frequently running television ads for the electronic retail site. Work on what would become the Echo had begun, the outlet notes, in 2011. All interested innovators (and what innovator isn’t interested in Alexa?)

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a veritable legion of DTC brands and startup shops have sprung up in the last several years to fill the holes in the market – and even reshape it. and the west in general, the market lacks a piece of friction that tends to be much more significant in the rest of the world. But for consumers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

HelloFresh is a German-based operation founded in 2011 to bring healthy, fresh and organic food directly to consumers’ front doors. It’s most direct competitors in the rather crowded food delivery market are Blue Apron and Home Chef , among many others. According to the firm’s reporting, users grew to 1.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a result, they’re contributing to driving up costs, slowing down innovation and frustrating customers. Customer experience and personalized customer marketing offers speak volumes when it comes to winning new business, consumer satisfaction and retention. How Digital Transformation Cuts Costs. Tim Young.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 12, 2021

The Fed’s final rule implementing the Durbin Amendment (Regulation II) went into effect in October 2011. Nearly ten years later, the final rule is still provoking controversy in the form of a new lawsuit and proposed amendments to the rule and its official commentary. New Lawsuit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

But, until very recently, many of those ideas were cast by the wayside because making and marketing T-shirts is a bit more work than the average amateur slogan-smith is able to do. And at $300 million in merchandise sold since its founding, there are clearly a lot of good ideas getting empowered. But the business is not without challenges.

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FICO

MAY 15, 2023

As happy long-term users and believers in FICO’s intelligent collections technology, we wanted to be early adopters and create a customer experience that had rarely been delivered in the market.” It's great to see Australian companies like AGL leading the way in digital innovation.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Over the past seven years, we have successfully increased our market share from about 7.6 percent back in 2011 to over 15 percent in 2017.”. And as long as we continue to provide quality services to the merchants and consumers, the business will come,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Merchants, especially in an increasingly tough retail environment, just want the sale. For proof, we need look no further than the two markets that many in the payments industry regard as leading the pack in payments innovation: Australia and the U.K. Innovation by Any Other Name. Break the rules and you’ll pay the price.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JUNE 3, 2016

I’m in Frankfurt for the annual PayComm MEETS Europe, my chance to catch up with practitioners from the continental card markets. It’s really hard to keep up with all of the change in the market, driven primarily because of the regulation rather than new technology. The pace of regulatory change seems relentless.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey knew she had a good idea when she launched StyleSeat in 2011, because the concept seemed so intuitive. The platform’s features include management of scheduling, client notes, social media, email marketing promotion and payment services like credit card acceptance or direct daily payouts.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The move marks Ocado’s first official foray into the American market, and the firm’s fourth international deal overall. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based based retailers. Launched in 2011, the company raised around $15 million. million. “The It’s a massive opportunity.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

So, how did a “team of geeks” with “zero experience” in the fashion or retail industries go on to become the second fastest-growing retail company in the U.S. and a serious disruptor to the $24 billion annual lingerie industry long dominated by Victoria’s Secret ?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

market for initial public offerings (IPOs) had a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic — or perhaps because of it. Markets initially responded accordingly, with shares pricing at $24 — the very top of the stock’s $22 to $24 expected range. billion — not bad, but far below what other major online retailers are seeing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

When the world first encountered the brand in 2011, Dollar Shave Club didn’t have much more than an innovative idea for selling razors and a viral video about the concept. Same quality, but 90 percent less expensive. ” Being their best, from DSC’s point of view, means being more than just clean shaven.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

market do not have: the need for offline authorization. Overall, this subset of the SMB market, some 3.4 We uncovered four big blind spots that cause big retailers to crash and burn at online checkout – you can get the whole story here. But now that we know why, hopefully, big retail can get to work on fixing the problem.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Amazon has been hard on Best Buy’s bottom line over the last several years, a situation that makes it almost entirely non-unique among the big-box retailers that exploded during the late ’90s and early 2000s. In 2007, unable to turn a profit in an increasingly crowded market, specialty electronics retailer Tweeter went bust.

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