PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

International food retail group Ahold Delhaize (AD) saw a minor upward push in the past week, though a broader view shows prices down overall compared to all-time highs in July 2016. Mid-Atlantic regional supermarket chain Weis Markets announced strong Q4 and full-year financial results despite falling food prices. billion ($27.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Fraud varies country to country, region to region. As has been widely noted, the region has paved the way for the adoption of EMV, and its embrace by merchants in the EU, mandated though it has been, has steered hackers and criminals to online methods of siphoning funds from consumers and cheating companies.

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NCR

MARCH 28, 2018

Home to more than 261 million people, it is the world’s fourth most populous country and also the largest island nation on the planet, comprising more than 13,000 islands. As the national government pursues initiatives to address this problem over the coming years, ATM deployment could prove a vital part of the mission.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Regional and mid-tier banks face an uphill battle on the digital front, but have advantages they can capitalize on with some focus and determination. Alarm bells are sounding in boardrooms of regional and mid-tier banks across the U.S. The 2016 U.S. Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study from J.D.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

“These changes are an important and necessary step for our continued growth and strengthen us for the remainder of 2016 and beyond.”. Blue Acorn, founded in 2008, lists such national brands as Ticketmaster and Everlast under its list of clients and bills itself as providing “superior eCommerce results through data-driven solutions.”.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 28, 2016

I have served on the audit committee (yes—we are thoroughly audited) for the past three years and will be serving on the budget committee in 2016. The Houston region has seen substantial layoffs, and the daily headlines predict more will be announced. In fact, huge expansion projects are now underway across our region.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The new center will bring 1,500 jobs to the region when it opens in 2017. All in, Amazon plans to add 3,500 in Britain in 2016 in a wide variety of roles, including head office, research and development, customer service, fashion photography, Amazon Web Services and distribution center jobs. Amazon’s new U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

With the 2016 presidential race in full swing, many important economic issues are being discussed. Other highlights of the study include: In Q2 2015, specific improvement was driven regionally by 4.1% These businesses – we call them Store Fronts — represent 3.8 million businesses, accounting for nearly 37 percent of all SMBs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Additionally, individual units of the hand sanitizers will be available for purchase on Green Goo’s site, as well as at national chain stores and independent retailers, by late April. Its eCommerce business has jumped 35 percent each year since 2016. Green Goo is right on the edge of a breakout.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Entities such as the National Payments Corporation of India — an umbrella organization for operating retail payments in India — have been helping to guide electronic payments adoption. However, more developed nations have been relatively constrained by legacy technologies and entrenched ways of conducting commerce.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The push to encourage greater financial inclusion in the region has also been helping bring many more people into the formal financial system. Recent figures from Retail Banking Research (RBR) revealed that overall, the number of ATMs deployed around the world grew by three percent in 2016, reaching 3.3

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. Demo: Customer Insight Dashboard for Regional Manager who can view their forward looking metrics such as customer attrition and look forward several quarters. We are launching a pilot for the 2016-17 Australian grains harvest. Visit us at www.liferay.com.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

DraftKings ’ chief international officer, Jeffrey Haas, recently spoke with PYMNTS about the challenges involved in introducing fantasy sports to new markets, and which sports generate the most interest in different global regions. percent between 2016 and 2020. in early 2016, and has since launched in several other global markets.

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PYMNTS

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. Well, as long as it happened between November 2011 and May 2016.). This week, Amazon is at it again.

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San Diego Retail Online Marketing 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

Take India and Asia, where the Global Cash Index analysis of that region shows that spending with tangible currency will grow by 7.5 insolvency spike : Cash flow or lack thereof catches up with firms across retail and construction, and Brexit makes things a bit more uncertain for firms in the U.K. trillion that year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

The deal is forecasted to close during Q3 2016, and its structure is interesting. The deal will also function as KFit’s entry into the world’s fourth most populous nation and one of the few areas left where smartphones have still not hit market saturation. So far, it has raised over $20 million in funds.

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Regional US Mobile National 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

launched a test in 2016 to secure digital driver’s licenses, and Wyoming joined the program the following year. Several other nations are also experimenting with national ID systems. Additionally, the country is experimenting with the digitization of these tools in the Guangzhou region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

They’re still getting a smartphone for the first time,” Jaede Tan, a regional director at App Annie, told CNBC. “If Consumers around the world ‘sourced’ food and drinks through apps 130 percent more often in 2018 than in 2016. If you combine those two things together, that’s why China’s such an engine of growth.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

By offering QR-based digital payments, smaller retailers can achieve these goals and create greater customer stickiness with little to no investment beyond the phone they already have,” said Jorn Lambert, EVP, Digital Channels and Regions, Mastercard. In spring 2018, participating U.S. In spring 2018, participating U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2016

In May, Kantar Worldpanel confirmed that Q1 2016 sales of Android phones had grown in just about every major market that matters — 7.1 percent in Europe, 7.3 percent in the U.S. and 6 percent in China.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The boom in mobile payments in China was recently illustrated by figures that revealed the value of payments in the nation is some 50 times higher than that of the US. trillion in 2016. According to the Financial Times , the value of third-party mobile payments in China tripled to $5.5

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 23, 2017

In 2016, we decided to ask our customers for feedback on their relationship with [Bank A]. We also believe there is a direct correlation between these customer quotes and our bank’s performance, and we’re very pleased to report that 2016 was an outstanding year for tangible results at [Bank A].

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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. He also threw in the obligatory plug, noting that Massachusetts has a “nation-leading innovation economy with a highly educated and skilled workforce.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Android’s gains continued in several regions, including the EU5, U.S. In the EU5, year-on-year growth between March 2015 and 2016 was 7.1 percentage point increase for the three months ending March 2016, up from 75.6 In Great Britain, both Android and iOS had higher market share in the three months ending April 2016.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

million as of 2016. Roughly 251,000 people are employed in this sector across the region, representing 36 percent of the country’s financial services sector employment. Roughly 251,000 people are employed in this sector across the region, representing 36 percent of the country’s financial services sector employment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

The Asia-Pacific region undoubtedly led the way, with India securing the largest investment of the week (alternative SME lending) and other deals reaching Australia and China in the logistics, cross-border payments and SaaS segments. Check out our breakdown of all the deals below. ” Alternative Lending. Don’t Scratch Your Head.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, 95 percent of transactions in in India were done in cash and there were approximately 60 million online shoppers – representing about 14 percent of the internet using base of the nation, according to a late 2017 report by Morgan Stanley. It’s typical of a business like this that, as you scale up, you will have losses.

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Branding National Report Online 101

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

New inspirations, fresh experiences await at ICBA’s national convention. It’s Community Banking LIVE 2016 in New Orleans. ICBA’s national convention offers an educational lineup this year of more than 60 workshops and networking sessions. State/Regional Partners Reception*. Monday, March 7. Concurrent Workshops.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

That’s nearly a billion dollars in funding, comparing favorably with the 45 percent logged in 2016. Bankruptcy claims a marquee name in tyke-focused retailing, as the Amazon effect continues. AI: In business, putting one’s money where the mouth is can be seen as a strong vote of confidence. Toys R Us: Toys Were Us?

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US Apple Innovation Regulation 108

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

We are the premier, largest doctors-on-demand service currently operating in the United States and, per our announcement in February 2017, are beginning the process of a national rollout. At this time in 2016, we had seen 3,000 patients — as of today in 2017, we have seen more than 23,000 throughout California.

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Pennsylvania Exercises United States Florida 128

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Bill Me Later was one of the earliest fintech payment platforms on the market and gave big retailers the ability to offer flexible financing programs. The company announced it would pass on the special card savings Amazon gets from card networks (because of the volume of purchases they can guarantee) to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay.

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Cards Lending Strategy US 101

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Whether it’s fitness, eating establishments or even building contractors, the number of Main Street storefronts is increasing, and Q2 2016 sees these trends continue to bear out. There have been many reports on the decline of the retail industry , and small retailers aren’t immune to the market trends aligning against brick-and-mortar stores.

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Maine Regional United States Retail 104

CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. For example, algorithms can track color changes in two areas of the face, like regions near the eyes and cheek, using that data to calculate heart rate detection.

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Industry Examples Security Technology 78

CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While recreational drones are strictly prohibited in active forest fire regions, they have proved useful when operated by the appropriate teams. However, access to modern medicine has been rather difficult in many rural regions around the world. LTE vs. Wi-Fi) will be provided to which regions. Conservation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

As detailed in the 2016 JPMorgan Chase Business Leaders Outlook report, the outlook is positive on a local economy level, but nationally/globally is a little more shaky. But when looking at that from a more national perspective? National economy: 39 percent optimistic, compared to 68 percent in 2015. Challenges.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Remittances to developing nations continue to grow, which has spurred many global markets to pursue efforts to enable more efficient cross-border payments. World Bank data shows that remittances to low- and middle-income nations reached a record high last year, with migrants sending $529 billion to their home countries. innovations.

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Payments System Fintech Innovation 204

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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