PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

So, how can you get your hands on the newest and hottest pair of Warby Parker shades — a “head-turning Haskell in Crystal, now with new silver mirrored lenses” that’s retailing for $95? Nope, you won’t be able to purchase them at WarbyParker.com or anywhere on the hip eyewear purveyor’s burgeoning list of brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

All in, the retailer is asking federal judges in bankruptcy court to let them pay out $3.41 During this process, the [retailer] started experiencing the loss of some of their highly valuable employees throughout critical areas of their businesses,” stated court documents filed in U.S. 25, according to Marketwatch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. If anything, at Coachella, this is where effective branding and timely marketing interventions come to together in perfect harmony.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach a revenue of $66.9 What’s helping this generation rely on chain restaurants, according to some, are mobile devices and social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram. billion by 2020.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Before Megan Graddy co-founded the PostStich knitting subscription service, she had served as a publicist and had segued into small business marketing. The two began PostStitch in November 2014 as “the subscription concept was kind of booming,” Graddy told PYMNTS in an interview.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, Celent recognized mBank’s digital platform redesign and in 2015, Celent recognized mBank’s Bancassurance initiative. Through 2014, mBank has grown to more than 4.7 Rather than copying other financial institutions, mBank sought to deliver a best-in-class digital experience inspired from the world’s best retailers.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The combination of product evolution, specialized analytics-savvy consultants, professional services firms, and cloud computing, has brought advanced analytics swiftly down market. Source: Celent survey of North American financial institutions, July 2014, n=78. But are they? In other words, they wished for it. Lack of Leadership.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

And nothing is worse than a bad product launch or poorly planned marketing strategy. Let’s just say, the pics weren’t well-received by the sneaker-loving community, and Harden’s been hearing it on social media ever since. With that said, PYMNTS decided to take a look at some of retail’s biggest winners and losers of the moment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. 30 Atlanta event will focus on digital marketing, which was identified as being among the top choices for an initial topic. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Attempts to connect through social media, email marketing or even in-person — there are tried-and-true ways of successfully connecting with consumers and ultimately incentivizing them to purchase. The market is estimated to be worth nearly $3 billion , growing tenfold over the past three years.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Don’t.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

And the demand for new shoes — especially sneakers — doesn’t appear as though it will slow down anytime soon, as TechNavio Infiniti Research forecasts the global footwear market will reach $216 billion in sales by 2019. The footwear market is also getting a big boost from the popularity and high visibility of sneakers and athletic shoes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Geographically, eBay wants to carve out a presence in emerging markets, including Turkey, and will aim at other ways to gain attention, such as reaching out to would-be consumers across various social media, including Facebook. One key test came amid a hacking scandal in 2014, with a data breach that hit consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since its founding in 2014, Mist Systems has worked to bring its Mist Intelligent Wireless Cloud and Enterprise-Grade Access Points to corporations across multiple sectors including retail, hospitality, health care, education and more. In a store, I can find where the closest retail associate is if I need assistance.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Digital orders for local pizzerias is a largely untapped market. With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels. But many markets outside those areas are underserved.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

This is out of touch with the way it should be,” said ItsOn Vice President of Technical Sales and Marketing Robert Oberhofer. Though America’s biggest carriers haven’t cottoned on yet, cloud startup ItsOn has made great inroads in overseas developing markets, with Saudi Arabia leading the charge in customer-centric marketing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

They wanted to look nice, but with hundreds and thousands of new products launching on the market annually, only the most interested and invested consumers would ever encounter most of them. More recently, the brand has remapped how they connect with new customers — like bringing their entire influence marketing operation in-house.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Marriott , Facebook and a database marketing firm by the name of Exactis exposed the records of roughly 300 million people. The social media giant found that attackers were able to take control of user accounts through a function within the platform’s code, according to reports. Department Store Hacks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. But the Protein Bar’s relationship with LevelUp goes back further than that.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. What would Sinatra say?

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. The slowdown stood starkly against the 66 percent paid clicks growth seen during the fourth quarter of 2014, when costs were down 29 percent. The essence of it all?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses.

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Banking 2020

AUGUST 20, 2015

Cash will continue to feel a slight squeeze in developed markets, but play a stronger role elsewhere. Cash might diminish in use in some regions (Western Europe for example), but will elsewhere continue to be used for cultural reasons,” says the WPR 2014 from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland. Wearables will become seamless.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

Last spring and summer, a staggering number of think pieces about misogynistic office cooling policies made the social media rounds, covering the sad tales of generations of female workers in light spring frocks slowly freezing to death in offices custom-cooled for men who were wearing three-piece suits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

When Coke markets itself – it is as a product for everyone, young, old, rich, poor, all races, all income levels. million followers – it has seen its sales grow an average of 25 percent a year since 2014, when company had sales of about $125 million. Some brands are for everyone – Coca-Cola being the best American example.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This is a classic bank deal – one acronym buys another at a good price and plans to cut the hell out of cost while adding markets. Chris’ public posts including his playbook for dealing with COVID-19 were gobbled up on social media. Market cap in January: $19B. Bank Deal of the Year PNC nabs BBVA USA – paying 1.3

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 15, 2014

There’s no question that wearable technology could explode in 2015, but we could (and many did) say the same thing about 2014, and perhaps about 2013. Similarly, SAP recently launched a partnership with consumer electronics giant Samsung to build on wearable devices for retail and other markets. That nuance is vital.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. 01 percent on my money market account when the Fed Funds rate rose to five, I was angry.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. Today, we are seeing other form factors emerging, beyond just the credit card, including the watch, the bracelet, the payment ring and the car one day,” Chris Curtin, chief of brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa, told RCR Wireless News.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The Head of the Competition and Markets Authority says that competition in currency is “welcome”. From Bankers Debate Bitcoin at Sibos 2014 ]. I know this will result in deluge of abuse via anti-social media, but I actually think he is right about this, and I’m not sure it helps to advance the cryptocurrency case.

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