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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The retailer said it voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware and is exploring a sale, Fortune reported. The retailer said in a filing last week that it might have to file for Chapter 11 if it could not reach a deal with creditors.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connecting more than 8,000 decision makers and thought leaders across the industry, Sibos 2017 in Toronto was once again the platform where the global financial community explored the disruptions and opportunities in payments driven by innovation, technology and new business models. Market infrastructure renewal.

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MARCH 25, 2019

To help meet customer expectations in the digital age, retailers have to know who their shoppers are and what they want. While eTailers already have this information about consumers, brick-and-mortar retailers don’t have this in-depth knowledge. They can also help capture the ages, genders and emotions (in some cases) of shoppers.

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Bobsguide

AUGUST 7, 2022

London, UK – August 3, 2022 – Finastra announced today that The Co-operative Bank has selected Finastra Kondor in the cloud, available via Microsoft Azure, to upgrade its treasury infrastructure and automate manual reporting and processes.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The global mobile wallet market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 35.5 percent from 2017 to 2021, according to research firm Research and Markets. Research and Markets’ assessment of the mobile wallet market meshes with what Technavio , the research firm, found about the mobile wallet market.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Among the hottest battles for eCommerce market share involves private label products, with a recent move from Walmart among the latest developments in that particular arena. But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years.

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JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. The move is one of several Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 trillion in market capitalization by 2024.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Unattended retail is having a moment – a bad moment, as it turns out, in China, according to reports. The challenges there come as kiosks and other forms of unattended retail continue to develop globally. billion yuan ($620 million) in 2017 alone.”. For one, selling fresh groceries via unattended retail is not an easy business.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Digitally-native furniture and home décor retailer Article has launched an in-house delivery program in Los Angeles and New York. Major retailers are also taking control of getting their products directly to the consumer.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Look to China, and look some more — that’s one of the main messages in mid-2019 for luxury retailers, at least for ones not based in the U.S. Luxury retail is a hot space in China. But China clearly offers opportunity for certain luxury brands, and that market promises to keep developing. Back in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The four-year-old startup, which just raised $10 million in Series A funding, develops non-meat equivalents of pork rinds, bacon seasoning and other piggy products for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) and retail markets. Bringing the (Plant-Based) Piggies to Market . Selling D2C, Retail and Subscriptions . billion market cap.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. The projected value of the global self-service market by 2023 is $13 billion.

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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. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega. Most brands hope to make a big splash when they enter the market – but not for this type of reason.

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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. In his eight years at the startup, he helped grow market capitalization to 11 billion euros from 2010 to 2017. Its most recent valuation was $3.5

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Alibaba and Tencent , which are locked in a battle to win over consumers, have invested more than $10 billion in retailers since the beginning of 2017. As a result, retailers are taking sides, CNBC reported. They have to take a side. As a result, the companies are rolling out mobile payments at even more physical stores.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Furner worked his way up through the retail giant, starting as an hourly associate in 1993, working part time in the garden center of a supercenter. He worked in Walmart China as a chief merchandising and marketing officer. He became the Sam’s Club president and CEO in 2017.

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MAY 7, 2019

Walmart is the latest example of the power of pets in retail — a power that is having significant influence among various merchants competing for the loyalty and dollars of pet owners. As well, if done well, pet retail can serve to increase foot traffic into bricks-and-mortar stores at a time when it is dearly needed.

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APRIL 25, 2018

2, as Microsoft has rallied to be neck and neck with Amazon in terms of market capitalization. The two Washington state-based companies are within one percentage point of each other, with a market cap of about $723 billion, thanks to a week-long rally in Microsoft shares coupled with a slump in Amazon shares, reported 24/7 Wall St.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Headed into the end of the year, Brian Sozzi wrote that Macy’s could indeed prove tempting to none other than off-price retail firm Ross Stores. The market cap and capita structure for Ross are also relatively stronger (and healthier) for Ross than for Macy’s. Could Macy’s be a takeout target this year?

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MAY 29, 2018

American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces — Tencent and JD.com. Walmart , for example, brought a small-format supermarket to the city of Shenzhen as the popularity of “small retail” grows in China.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation 2017. Bank Innovation 2017, March 6-7 in San Jose, Calif., Adam Carson, managing director, global technology strategy & partnerships at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will feature dozens of speakers on investing in innovation, chatbots, blockchain and more.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring. Payments chaos.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

A new report has found that while Apple has fallen to third place in the wearable market for the second quarter of 2017, the total worldwide wearable band market grew 8 percent during the same period. According to Canalys Research , the market was led by Xiaomi , with shipments of 3.5

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APRIL 26, 2018

Amazon announced its plan to build a totally unattended retail store in early 2017, but there was something of a gap between the announcement of the company’s plan for a sensor-based, cashier-less shopping experience here in the United States and its actual rollout in late January of this year.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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APRIL 5, 2018

retailers (or any foreign players) to establish a strong presence in the Chinese market. billion worth of emerging market stocks and bonds were purchased by foreign investors in March — an “ impressive ” investment value according to the Institute of International Finance , considering what a volatile month it proved to be.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has announced that it will be selling books online, which could be picked up in one of its almost 1,000 stores. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. Magazine Luiza shares were up 1.9 percent at R$170.31 ($43.45

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AUGUST 16, 2017

There are rarely second acts in retail — particularly once bankruptcy is in play — but, every so often, the unexpected happens. Last week, footwear retail company Payless ShoeSource was one of those unexpected stories, a company pulled into the bankruptcy whirlpool but getting plucked out before being sucked all the way down to the bottom.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

PetSmart is boosting its digital offerings through the acquisition of Chewy, the leading online retailer of pet food and products. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of PetSmart’s second fiscal quarter of 2017. “We

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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MAY 2, 2016

Drones haven’t had their coming out (or taking off) party just yet, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of retailers from testing their own autonomous aerial fulfillment systems. If and when that happens, Uvionix is betting on striking the Drones-as-a-Service market big with its $3 ticket to fly.

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