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MARCH 7, 2018

To help merchants and other service providers convert more consumers at the point of sale, LendingPoint has unveiled LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, a platform that will provide fully integrated one-stop retail financing, the company said in an announcement. The move comes after the company acquired LoanHero in Dec.

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MAY 29, 2020

Both Walmart and Amazon made some big add-ons and/or acquisitions this week as they attempt to widen their sphere of retail influence in a post-pandemic world. Now more than ever, consumers are looking for ways to manage their money for less while saving as much as they can. We believe $1.1 eCommerce business, told CNBC. “We

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MAY 24, 2016

American retailers are showing a voracious appetite for global real estate expansion as they build their footprint overseas. The rapid expansion has a hit a new high with American retailers opening more stores abroad than retailers from any other country, findings from a new CBRE report say. The closest competitor to the U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. Managing director since 2017, Dobbie is leading Vocalink in the expansion of B2B payment services in the U.K.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. per month.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

India’s top eCommerce company Flipkart has gone and switched up its top management positions for the second time in the past year following a series of valuation write-downs across 2016. Kalyan Krishnamurthy, former managing director of Tiger Global, was reportedly named the new CEO of Flipkart after joining the company this past June.

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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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JANUARY 25, 2021

Miami-based FinTech ClassWallet has grown its classroom expense management offering to help with the requirements of custodial and maintenance workers in primary and secondary schools, according to a Monday (Jan. The tool also gives full management to facilities managers and eliminates paperwork, according to the announcement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2016

For years, retailers have lamented the fact that mobile traffic so rarely translates in equal numbers to in-store traffic. Retailers spend millions — and would gladly spend millions more — if there was some sure-fire way to turn consumers’ phones into magnets that pull toward their stores. “So what?”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Mall of the Emirates retailers are set to accept WeChat Pay in the U.A.E. , Mall of the Emirates retailers are set to accept WeChat Pay to appeal to tourists from China, The National reported. Coverage includes Deposit Solutions ’ rollout of business-to-consumer (B2C) open banking channel Savedo in Switzerland. And, in the U.A.E.,

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The integration is slated to give JioMart control of India’s retail market, which is estimated to reach $1.3 Reliance Retail will then pose a formidable challenge to Flipkart and Amazon for eCommerce domination in the country. “It The JioMart integration is essentially adding a retail layer for WhatsApp chats. trillion by 2025.

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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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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. As well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path that Costco seems to be taking in China. Managing Director Karen Li noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster and PingPong Financial Chief Business Officer Ning Wang.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Originally launched in 2014, Square Appointments was aimed at small businesses offering appointment-based services like salons, wellness providers and tutors. Aside from booking and payments, the enhanced Square Appointments solution also enables sellers to manage inventory. .

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange. billion, backed by Tencent and Allianz as well as by members of Zalando’s management. . Its most recent valuation was $3.5

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

“No other platform features the PICKUP Good Guys, a curated network of vetted independent contractors delivering big and heavy goods, enabling PICKUP to provide retailers greater value across their assortment than any other solution on the market today,” she said. Postmates was launched in 2011 and is based in Silicon Valley.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

retailers this holiday season — the largest number since 2014. Retailers said they would add 704,000 jobs before the holiday shopping season, an increase of 1.2 percent from the previous best figures in 2014, according to a report from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. As well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path Costco seems to be taking in China. Managing Director Karen Li noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster and PingPong Financial Chief Business Officer Ning Wang.

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MARCH 6, 2020

eRetail Audit,” which is the central offering of the upstart, is said to be a digital platform that offers online retail market share information for “sell-out” consumer merchandise in units, value and volume. In separate funding news from September of last year, Akeneo landed $46 million to enhance product information for retailers.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Walmart is apparently working hard at restructuring itself to win, particularly in regards to how it manages it growing its eCommerce business — operationally and logistically. The typical American household spends $65,960 per year, the largest share of which goes toward retail spending — 30.8 eCommerce retail sales.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Faced with some tough money management choices amid the COVID-19 outbreak? CII Values for 2014 and 2017. Consider that the lowest risk instrument for a retail customer is a bank ?xed CII Values for 2014 and 2017. Read this to sail through this phase with ease. . Table 1: Liquid Mutual Fund With 6% Returns Over 3 Years *.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. The figures below outline the decline of banks in the US, going from 11,462 at the end of 1992 to 5,809 in 2014. prepaid services, P2P lending, etc.).

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

The bank built the BaaS platform in response to the rise of new cloud-based flexible banking systems and a pivot in the distribution of financial products, according to Macgregor Duncan , general manager, corporate and business development, Westpac. “In

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JUNE 17, 2020

The move to tokenization comes amid the rise of eCommerce as consumers save and manage their card details across multiple websites. Last month, as PYMNTS reported , Visa added 28 partners to its Token Service, added to the 150 token requestor partners that had been included in the platform since it was launched in 2014.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

It is appearing more and more likely that liquidation will be the final fate of Aéropostale after a bankruptcy judge ruled last week that private equity firm Sycamore Partners could use the $150 million it is owed by the bankrupt teen retailer as a bid at its bankruptcy auction. Today, Aéro is all about price.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

The beauty brand has launched pop-up shops in cities such as Austin, Miami, Boston and London, but its success has primarily been in online sales of its lotions, lash products and soft, pink-colored lip balms since its 2014 inception. The department store retailer has also reportedly worked with Allbirds, Everlane and Away.

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JULY 24, 2020

But it was a victim of the North Star State’s mid-March shutdown of non-essential retail and continues to struggle even after reopening on June 10. billion mortgage in 2014. Located in Bloomington, Minn., the Mall of America features not only 500 stores, but also some 28 amusement-park rides, an aquarium and more.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In an effort to reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact, Swedish fashion giant H&M launched a B2B service called Treadler that will let rivals access its global supply chain, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer announced on Wednesday (March 4). A good third of consumers in the U.S.

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JUNE 10, 2016

When Cook and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to cap the trip off, it seemed a forgone conclusion that Apple would get what it was looking for: an exemption from a regulation requiring foreign-owned retailers to source at least a third of their manufacturing from local Indian sources.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

APG Asset Management, the Dutch pension fund, and The Xander Group, the investment firm, announced Friday (Nov. According to a report by Reuters , APG Asset Management and Xander Group are co-investing $450 million in India’s real estate market, which will increase both companies investments there.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

With decreasing sales at brick-and-mortar stores, declining foot traffic and closing storefronts for retail chains, shopping mall owners are using new technology to help turn things around. The information gleaned from the technology will help shopping mall management firms and landlords pick the best tenants to attract customers.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Risk management. Data from Bank Director’s 2014 Growth Strategy Survey in August confirms that these are bankers’ greatest concerns. Source: 2014 Growth Strategy Survey. Approximately half of the banks that participated in the survey were publicly traded and were focused on a mix of retail and commercial banking.

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MARCH 3, 2020

was a target of Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC, an activist investor that wanted the firm to optimize its real estate value by converting its retail space into hotels, offices and other boutiques. She was reportedly an important part of the chain’s 2014 decision to stop the sales of tobacco in stores.

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MARCH 8, 2018

In 2014, the company looked to the sky through a partnership with Blade to help ferry passengers between Manhattan and the Hamptons as well as Manhattan and Montauk. I would see this as an experiment, as it was [in 2013],” Josh Mohrer, Uber’s general manager for New York, told The New York Times. “If

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

In 2014, Overstock launched Medici Ventures, which manages the online retailer’s work in blockchain, CNBC stated, and has majority ownership of tZERO. You’re not paying anything for blockchain, and you’re getting retail at a steep discount, [and] I think the stock’s going to go to $100.”. Medici reported a loss of $3.3

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MARCH 21, 2017

Facebook placed an ad looking for a GTM retail program manager as all signs point to the social media site establishing a stronger retail presence in consumer hardware. Currently, the only significant consumer hardware product Facebook has is the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that it acquired for $2 billion in 2014.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

technology investor Coatue Management, Afterpay announced in a press release on Wednesday (Nov. In connection with the investment, the two firms will form a strategic partnership “where Coatue will leverage its data science expertise to support Afterpay in its development of retail data analytics and future data-driven products.”

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