PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing. Greyhound’s digital push comes as more consumers — many of them millennials — are demanding added affordability, convenience and safety from travel companies.

Security 141

Security Tools Fraud System 141

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

In 2017, Starbucks launched ordering integration with Ford’s SYNC3 , the automaker’s voice-activated technology powered by Alexa. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014. Mobile Ordering Appeals to Millennials. Meeting consumer demand is vital. This is the audience for mobile ordering.

Millennials 184

Millennials Google Mobile Report 184

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. The retailer has a $520 million term loan due in Oct. When in doubt, bet on digital.

Online 100

Online Retail Seattle Industry 100

Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Digital Banking. Cyber vulnerabilities.

Retail 40

Retail Trends Millennials Mobile 40

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. Remember, Lending Club’s claim to fame, as all of the online lenders, was their technology prowess at building systems that could take data and mash it up and make better decisions, faster.

Retail 100

Retail FDIC Bitcoin Lending 100

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

How millennials will accelerate innovation and technology change. You recognize one of today’s most prominent technology dilemmas for community banks: It’s the great mobile divide. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. billion in payments throughout 2014.

Mobile 70

Mobile Millennials Community Bank Community 70

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My Its first offerings for consumers were backpacks. The llama was bought off of Craigslist.

Millennials 116

Millennials Branding Community Retail 116

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. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

Retail 78

Retail Cards Millennials Mobile 78

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

15) that it has launched a global initiative, She’s Next, Empowered by Visa, which seeks to support the advancement of women-owned small businesses around the world through shared research, experience and technologies. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan. India and Mexico.

Atlanta 189

Atlanta New York social media Community 189

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

When it comes to retail, general commerce and online payments, the increasingly powerful middle class in India will probably get major credit in future textbooks for shaping the global digital economy. Retail Influences. Winning Formula. That’s why I think investors in general are optimistic about this sector.”.

Online 100

Online Retail Capital Marketing 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018. According to Glover, that means banks in the U.S.

blockchain 171

blockchain Lending User Experience Mobile 171

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Ten years later, the company continues to disrupt the diamond mining and traditional jewelry retail space with its lab-grown diamonds — offering customers a diamond alternative they can truly feel good about buying. For diamond mining companies and many traditional jewelry retailers, this technology comes as a major threat.

Portland 101

Portland Community Branding Retail 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Pundits prophesy a cashless society — and indeed, vast swaths of consumers are migrating to digital and mobile channels for many of their banking needs, as shown by a decline in the number of brick-and-mortar retail bank branches. Millennials are taking a mobile-first approach to banking, driving that transformation.

ATM 126

ATM Strategy Mobile Millennials 126

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Millennials and Generation Y have grown up with cybercrime, the executive stated, and parents must have “another type of talk” with their kids: the online safety and security talk, as Volmar termed it. For businesses, 2014 was “the wakeup call” and a “banner year for internet crime.”

Payments 110

Payments System Software Mobile 110

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

Millennials 77

Millennials Mobile Lending Cards 77

Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 15, 2016

Available only via mobile app, imaginBank is a new initiative by Spanish bank, Caixabank targeting millennials. imaginBank provides customers with a complete array of financial services such as a commission-free current account, a Visa imaginBank debit card, and PFM tools, as well as up-to-date mobile and P2P payment technology.

Millennials 12

Millennials Mobile social media ATM 12

Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

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. A whopping 63 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 29) don’t have a credit card, according to a survey commissioned by Bankrate and compiled by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

Marketing 40

Marketing Millennials Community Bank social media 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That’s the backdrop for the nearly hour-long conversation that Karen Webster had about the role of payments security in digital business transformation with CA Technologies Director of Payments Security James Jenkins. Of course, it’s not just the FinTech industry and tech-savvy millennials who are fueling digital change.

Security 100

Security CA Payments Big Data 100

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Mobile order-ahead technology has changed the game for restaurants, even for those that aren’t focused on speed. But as mobile technology becomes more popular in the dining industry, casual eat-in restaurants like TGI Fridays are also embracing mobile order-ahead services with an eye toward finding new customers via digital opportunities.

Mobile 101

Mobile Branding Technology Online 101

NCR

MARCH 31, 2017

The research was based on figures showing a decline in cash use in the UK between 2004 and 2014, from 71 percent to 53 percent of transactions. The biggest causes of concern were potential for fraud (61 percent), over-reliance on technology (45 percent) and lack of privacy (31 percent). The decline of cash. billion the previous year.

Millennials 40

Millennials Trends Survey Comparison 40

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

And so, the brand’s recent technological push may come as a surprise to perspective car buyers. Despite Buick’s continued commitment to innovation, the brand’s retro image remained a somewhat stifling force until 2014. One spot, for example, shows a grandmother getting picked up by her millennial grandson in his new car.

Branding 100

Branding System Technology Millennials 100

PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Median household income, which had dropped to $58,829 in June 2011, has consistently increased since the summer of 2014. They have and use store cards and say they pay student loans (probably at that age for their millennial kids). The Commerce Department reported that May retail sales in the U.S.

Cards 122

Cards Groups Report US 122

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

So in 2014, we did a test by putting out a MVP (minimum viable product) and it really exceeded our expectations. SW: We tend to have two classes of competitors: Traditional mobile detailers — These folks are very good at delivering washes, but have no technology front end and tend to range from 1-5 vans, so they are very small scale.

Groups 131

Groups Millennials Mobile Customer Experience 131

Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study from J.D. Power noted that for the first time ever the largest six banks had taken the lead in customer satisfaction, largely through better customer-facing technology. The big banks ranked better across multiple segments, including the coveted millennials, emerging affluents, and minorities.

Regional 28

Regional Mobile Millennials Study 28

NCR

JUNE 14, 2016

As expected the younger generation, millennials, are less concerned about move compared to those older. It would therefore seem to be “full steam ahead” with banks and the financial technology industry and media on the benefits of cashless, when reading many of these articles. Million (Retail Banking Research 2015).

ATM 40

ATM North Carolina Survey Study 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2014, Starbucks stopped accepting Square’s mobile wallet, and shortly thereafter, Square pulled the plug entirely on that mobile wallet experiment. Their performance last quarter was eye-catching for what it says about Square’s pivot over the last several years toward becoming a technology-driven merchant services firm.

Apple 110

Apple Capital Cards Payments 110

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Beauty brands must consider how voice technology could be used to address shopper pain points, from offering advice to making recommendations to booking reservations. Amazon’s next makeover: online beauty retail.

Google 72

Google Apple Industry Branding 72

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re a retailer or a brand, it seems as though eCommerce and the rise of smartphones and mobile shopping have made your customers more cost-savvy and price-aware than ever before. Well, the rise of eCommerce and mobile shopping doesn’t have to mean doom and gloom for luxury brands or retailers.

Branding 100

Branding social media Millennials Study 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. But there’s no question that the way these institutions function has shifted, pushed along especially by the financial crisis and technology trends. Table of contents.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A growing group of consumers — particularly millennials and other young shoppers — are embracing connected grocery offerings. Since its launch in 2014, Instacart has attracted more than $1.6 Currently, Instacart operates in an estimated 4,000 cites and works with some 300 retailers. billion in capital. households.

Retail 197

Retail Millennials Capital Operations 197

PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

Predicting the future is hard work, and as we come to the close of the 21st century’s second decade, it is fair to say that the science-fiction writers of the 20th century did a so-so job of predicting the technological future. A quick glance at PYMNTS Bridge Millennials data bears out the same trend. By the year 2022, voicebot.ai

Marketing 100

Marketing Millennials Google Mobile 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Retailers can already count on more goods flying off their shelves this holiday season, judging by consumer spending. Will more consumers embrace mobile technology, along with its convenience, integrated rewards programs and avoidance of cash checking fees? Perhaps, if doing so is convenient and hassle-free. will increase by 33.8

Mobile 100

Mobile Video Millennials Payments 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Branding social media 78

CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In some cases, the technological changes inspired by Covid-19 will come in the form of an acceleration of existing trends — for example, industrial automation and contactless payments. Teletherapy.

Industry 101

Industry Technology Online Video 101

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Target’s Cat & Jack kids’ line has delivered double-digit results since its 2016 launch, even as traditional retailers struggle to stay afloat. Clothing: how retailers are attempting to escape the industry apocalypse by introducing store brands.

Industry 67

Industry Branding Retail US 67