PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. corporate borrowers has increased to 3.9 percent, compared with 3.4

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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. As of Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of an intentional thing. But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. The first of these concept stores got off the ground in 2013.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. What we’ve really done is create this category of socially conscious, sustainable retail banking that really didn’t exist before,” Cherny said.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 18, 2014

She will continue your zero rate policy and will “taper” your QE 3 program, because the markets have already dismissed its impact and tightened long term rates despite your wishes. Mortgage rates rose just as much and they may potentially damage the housing market recovery. and Janney Capital Markets at 2.1% once again.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

While the market focuses on deposits and liquidity, media pundits and analysts are waiting for credit problems to appear. CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). touched off a wave of bankruptcies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The eCommerce retailer invested $22.6 Here’s how these companies are investing in R&D — and ushering in the next generation of retail technology. According to AirMap , its real-time traffic management software is used by about 80 percent of all drones around the globe. Amazon spent the most on R&D by far.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

European wealth management FinTech Raisin is planning to roll out in the U.S. Banks will be able to offer the new solutions directly to their own customers or use Raisin’s platform to reach all potential retail consumers. Raisin will license Choice FS’ software to banks in the U.S., platform,” said Raisin U.S. CEO Paul Knodel.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 8, 2017

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. The Spectator has just written an interesting piece about this: In 2013, Graeme Hartop left his job as managing director of the banking arm of the Scottish Widows investment group. Or are they?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The move means that the company will end its JV that has been in place since 2013 with Yoox Net-A-Porter, which as the newswire stated helps third-party brands develop sites. Now, those retailers taking full eCommerce ops in house have, in turn, full access to sensitive data tied to clients.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

Small businesses are feeling the pressures of market changes — and not only in the U.S. Retail and food-and-drink, with 14.5 All roads lead to one culprit, however: poor cash flow management. According to researchers, the construction industry is the sector most impacted by poor cash flow management. billion less in U.K.

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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: 2015.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Struggling retailer Cabela’s is expecting bids this week for purchase. Cabela’s investor Elliott Management last year disclosed an 11 percent stake in Sidney, Nebraska-based Cabela’s and is reportedly urging a sale to pull value out of the hard-hit by recent trends retail operation. Stock price picked up 2.9

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

As for the underpinnings of growth, said the analyst, look for management to repeat targets at its investor day on Wednesday that call for 6 to 8 percent global unit growth and 8 to 12 percent global sales growth. At the same time, the company has a strong driver and ordering operation in place, which should keep growth intact.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 15, 2014

My heart goes out to the hard working professionals who run the Treasury Services or “Cash Management” divisions at community banks. Yet for more than a decade, cash management professionals have shown their resiliency. But lately, there are deeper lines and fatigued expressions on the faces of cash management professionals.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

CNBC said The Steinberg Group , which operates under the name dOMAIN, and a production management company in New York City agreed to submit altered invoices and bills to hide the scam. The fraud happened from 2008 until he was fired in 2013, noted the report. He also worked with two QVC vendors to aid in ripping off the company.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Even Amazon competitors like Macys, Target and even Best Buy reported that their sales rose that day by 13 percent or more – as they rode the Prime Day draft and put their own offers in market.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 22, 2014

My firm measures line of business and product profitability for dozens of community financial institutions, and hardly any of them make real money in retail investment sales, if they make any money at all. At the end of 2013, US registered investment companies managed $17.1 trillion for the same period. So grow your own reps.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In a recent column featured in Forbes , the thinking goes that online retail has managed to disrupt the lives of many a brick-and-mortar retailer. There’s another existential threat here, as online retailers must grapple with other online retailers. Is Overstock an overvalued stock?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Online auto retailer Vroom has announced a $146 million Series G funding round led by AutoNation. Launched in 2013, Vroom offers customers who buy a car off the platform seven days to test drive the vehicle after delivery, and allows for them to return it if they are not fully satisfied. markets.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

The holiday season isn’t only about retail and payments. grew by 28 percent in 2017, per the NPD Group, a market research company – and global sales increased to $9.6 billion in 2013, according to the market research group Euromonitor International. And that means this is the time of year for board games to shine.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Given the less than stellar track record of shopping malls in recent memory, investors are not exactly lining up to buy into fading retail behemoths where no one wants to shop. REIT has sold off 17 bottom-tier malls since 2013. Whether or not they will be able to lower the price sufficiently to attract buyers remains an open question.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 16, 2023

Even if your bank has limited consumer exposure, given that the consumer composes approximately 66% of the US economy, and, according to the yield curve and market pundits, we are all staring into a recession, paying close attention to consumer trends is critical. These are cash flow management tools that send a signal of future problems.

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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. Market opportunity. Stripe Connect and billing services help companies manage marketplaces, subscriptions. Expansion into emerging markets.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. Incumbents are not standing still and are acting to protect their market share. Market Map: The Startups Disrupting Retail & Commercial Banking.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Marketing in every industry is evolving, fast. The implementation of Burberry Chat on the Salesforce Chatter platform allows the retailer to connect sales and design silos, rapidly turning real-time customer feedback into product alterations. Marketing in every industry is evolving—fast. The answer is quite a lot.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 8, 2021

This article is substantially updated from a 2013 blog post. An effective independent loan review system has always been critical for managing a financial institution’s credit risk and accurately estimating the allowance for loan and lease losses, or ALLL. Independent Assessment. Reviewing lending staff’s risk ratings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2013, those investments hit $232 million, and in 2014, they hit $80 million, according to reports. Other players in the market, including Avenue Capital Group and Euler Hermes Group, have also exited the space, causing an increase in the cost of these insurance contracts. million in 2012. billion from $4.7 billion a year ago. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

years in 2013, according to a recent estimate. A robust supply of private capital reportedly is one of the main reasons for that, along with corporate cultures that are averse to public markets. consumer ridesharing market. The expected move to the public markets comes amid a robust time for Pinterest.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

For the many retailers racing toward retail’s future, ship-from-store has emerged as a saving grace for a multitude of reasons. Furthermore, the web has no shortage of articles pitching the wonders of ship-from-store as the solution to a variety of retailer woes. Regional overstock of some goods? No problem.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Before Bluefly was what it is today, the retailer was the golf sportswear company Pivot Rules. As an early pioneer in high-end fashion retailing on the web, said board member and former CEO of Bluefly Neel Grover, the firm has always been focused on staying in style. It hasn’t always been a smooth ride.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce store,” ShipBob Co-Founder Divey Gulati told PYMNTS in an interview. “We While Gulati and his co-founder managed to automate practically every function, there was just one piece of their business they couldn’t wrap their heads around — shipping and logistics.

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CB Insights

JULY 1, 2018

We broke Canadian tech down into the following categories: Venture Capital: This category encompasses the most active Canadian venture capital firms by number of deals to tech companies globally since 2013. Others include Flipp , which offers a digital platform used by retailers. It has raised $113M in funding to date.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The practice of heading to a physical video store to rent DVDs (and, before them, VHS tapes) — which had been sputtering along throughout the back end of the aughts — pretty much died for good around the time that Blockbuster officially folded in 2013, did it not? What is the force that is managing to keep these outliers alive?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

Retailers as dependent on a brick-and-mortar footprint as Macy’s don’t always have the luxury of fixes to pick from if their stocks experience the continuous slide that the former tentpole brand’s has. There’s so much we’re testing in this building,” Newton said.

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