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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

One of the unintended consequences in the rise of eCommerce is a related rise in cyberfraud attacks on online shoppers. Since its founding, Shape Security’s clients — which count among them two of the world’s top airlines, both the world’s largest banking and hotel chains, one of the top 10 retailers in the world and “one of the largest U.S.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Starting with Siri’s appearance on the market in 2011 and exploding into the public consciousness with Amazon’s Alexa (and to a lesser extent Google Assistant), with rapid growth over the last six or so years, the voice connected future has been expanding into every aspects of the consumer’s life — and into the co-pilot seat.

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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. The challenge for the last year has just been educating our customer base.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Most online merchants rely solely on SSL/TLS to encrypt the data being sent from their websites. New York-headquartered PAAY, a consumer authentication innovator co-founded in 2011 by James Ruffer and Yitz Mendlowitz, has a new security solution that aims to obliterate hacking and fraud threats.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. based company takes a different, data analytics approach to online retail marketing.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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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. The bank now also offers online and mobile chat options. “A Alex Jimenez.

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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. As of Feb.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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MAY 11, 2020

We have observed the rapid acceleration of online behaviors that were nascent when consumers had a choice of how and where to shop, how and where to eat, and how and where to travel and work. If you look at most major innovations, for example, they diffuse slowly and seem to take longer than anyone expected. Take the internet.

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JULY 31, 2019

subscribers last quarter, marking the first time since 2011 that the company has lost more American subscribers than it gained. The console is expected to retail for $129.99 Deep Dive: How Online Gaming Competes in a Global Subscription Market. Developments From Around the World of Subscription Commerce.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. During Niccol’s tenure, Taco Bell announced online delivery through GrubHub. He also said his own efforts would be tied to innovation once the company found a replacement. “As

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CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Learn how Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, Zara, and other retailers are using AI to reinvent the brick-and-mortar store. Why physical retail still matters. to $355.9B

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

In one of the earlier examples of experiential retail innovation, in 1924 Macy’s hosted the first of its annual Thanksgiving Day Parades. Other retailers adopted the Macy’s standard, so to speak, and it was such a hard-and-fast line that the date of Thanksgiving was officially changed to better accommodate it. The Great Shift .

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APRIL 12, 2017

The online retail giant’s estimated market cap sat at just a tad over $439 billion—nearly twice that of Walmart. if it can get more retail locations to participate as tellers. AMZN broke $900 during Tuesday (April 4) afternoon trading, peaking above $920 before tempering back down to around $894 by the end of the week.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

There is no taboo associated with women’s undergarments – which means they are fairly easy to find in a wide range of online and offline locations. Zivame is an increasingly big lingerie name in India , with over 35 retail locations of its own and shelf space at 800 or so other locations. But for consumers in the U.S.

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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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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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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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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. And then regulators are forced to backtrack.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

What’s the hottest new industry in retail? men report shaving less often, grooming innovations, such as cleansing gels or holding creams for facial hair, and facial hair grooming tools present opportunities in the men’s personal care market.”. How about the razor. Despite the fact that many U.S.

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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. It comments that the continued growth in online transactions, particularly due to the pandemic, has put a spotlight on this issue. New Lawsuit.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Once widely considered an eCommerce-proof vertical because of consumers’ basic insistence on seeing and handling fresh produce, that conventional wisdom has dissolved through a steady drumbeat of innovations by several smaller online grocery players and some massive investments from major players like Amazon, Walmart and Kroger. .

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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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MAY 22, 2017

Neo4j is used in financial services and retail, government, telecommunications and more for mission-critical applications as diverse as real-time pricing, online product and service recommendations, fraud detection, enterprise search and the Internet of Things (IoT). So how did this idea go from two-ply to worldwide?

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. After a beta launch in 2010, developers were told by Facebook in June of 2011 that the only way they could be paid for those in-app purchases was to accept Credits.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Buying items online has become a regular everyday occurrence. While Pew Research shows 79 percent of Americans shop online, it also found that 82 percent place a high value on factoring reviews into their purchasing decisions. As a result, consumers can ultimately lose confidence or faith in their favorite brand or retailer.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Considered an online version of a dollar store, ContextLogic looked in many ways like the next Amazon. billion — not bad, but far below what other major online retailers are seeing. Co-founded in 2011 by Facebook veteran Doug Hirsch (now GoodRx’s CEO), the company has operated in the black since 2016. Wish ($17 billion).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

I n the mid-late-1980s, the online shopping channel of choice was the television – and QVC one of the granddaddies of what was hailed as “home shopping.” And you could buy some of the same stuff that you can buy today online. In 2011 there were about 170 channels available per household. It wasn’t always that way.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

I n the mid-late-1980s, the online shopping channel of choice was the television – and QVC one of the granddaddies of what was hailed as “home shopping.” And you could buy some of the same stuff that you can buy today online. In 2011 there were about 170 channels available per household. It wasn’t always that way.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

In 2011, the company’s services and mobile app debuted in San Francisco. Lyft is about innovating the category of transportation as a service (TaaS) by giving consumers as many options as possible to serve their transportation needs through a tap-and-go experience. The rest, as they say, is history. The company reports 30.7

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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. It was, in her mind, like OpenTable – but for beauty appointments. .” They didn’t get the all-female customer side of the platform or the hairstylist side of the platform.

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consumers are now buying CPG goods online, via mobile, at the office, through on-demand delivery, in meal kits and personalized services, by using smart home and voice technology, and more. Since then, Peltz has continued to push P&G to re-evaluate its R&D strategy, bring in more external talent, and focus on innovation.

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