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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

We do not engage in surge pricing, and product prices do not fluctuate by region or delivery location,” an Amazon spokesperson noted. “We All in all, Florence’s economic impacts will be less than the big storms of 2017. in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in reference to Florence. According to Planalytics, roughly $2.75

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Patrik Frisk, president and CEO of Under Armour, told The Baltimore Sun that the company is focused on returning to profitability and is planning to invest in eCommerce and company-owned retail outlets. . The Asia-Pacific region saw a 15 percent jump in sales.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

That’s a 181 percent increase over 2017. Retail, food service, travel/hospitality, banking/financial, entertainment and leisure, and self-service, have the majority of cases, reflecting a general pattern over 2017 and 2018 toward these types of organizations.”. Domino’s stands out for its retail innovations.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Like other retail delivery services, UberEATS faces the prospect of low margins and remains unprofitable in most of the regions it services, reports the Financial Times. The bills for UberEATS orders also tend to be larger than those for standard Uber bookings, as clients pay for their food in addition to its transportation.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Retailers are set to clean up this Halloween, as 2017 is looking to be a record-setter for consumer spending during the holiday. Halloween is no longer just for the kids and those with kids,” wrote Allison Zeller, director of research for the National Retail Federation (NRF). In fact, holiday spending is expected to hit $9.1

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JUNE 4, 2018

As Walmart refocuses its worldwide operations, Advent International plans to take a 80 percent stake in the retailer’s business in Brazil. With such a deal, Walmart would keep a 20 percent stake in the company, and the retailer would utilize Advent’s regional expertise, CNBC reported.

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NCR

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As December draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the biggest headlines and defining themes of 2017 for the financial services industry. The humble ATM celebrated its 50 th birthday in June 2017. For many financial institutions (FIs), preparing for the EU’s PSD2 regulation has been priority number one in 2017.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Between the end of 2016 and 2017, $128 billion worth of commercial real estate loans are due to refinance. While net retail sales have increased 31 percent since 2009, eCommerce has doubled in that same time. predicts that half the 1,100 regional malls in the U.S. predicts that half the 1,100 regional malls in the U.S.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, there were 38 disclosed venture and seed rounds by automakers , up from 26 in 2016 — and astronomically higher than only six in 2015. In the rideshare arena, InMotion , Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, invested $25 million in a $600 million funding round for Lyft in 2017. Ridesharing. Car Financing.

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MAY 15, 2017

JCPenney shares dropped more than 13 percent on Friday following an earnings release that, while technically a beat on adjusted diluted EPS, posted a significant comp sales decline and a slight drop in revenue for the retailer. For the first quarter of 2017, JCPenney reported diluted EPS of $0.06 per share in Q1 2017. “We

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

The number of merchants accepting card payments around the world grew by 13 percent in 2017, to 69.2 RBR, a research and consulting firm for banking and retail, released a forecast of payment card data through 2023, and found that card payment acceptance is growing at a fast rate. million, according to a report.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, though.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

So where to next for the omnichannel retail giant? The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. And Amazon isn’t the only international retailer with eyes for Southeast Asia.

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APRIL 13, 2018

The funds will support store openings and renovations as well as retail innovations, the company said in an announcement. Elise Vasquez-Warner, a vice president and regional general manager for Walmart in Florida, said, “Customers have told us they want the convenience of shopping how, when and where they want.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Tencent and UnionPay’s working together will enable multiple retailers to interface with a greater number of mobile payment apps without displaying multiple QR codes. Regional rival Alipay interacts with its customers with a similar, but not integrated software system. The collaboration also increases options for consumers.

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MARCH 16, 2017

In the Asia-Pacific region specifically, there are varying degrees of shopping patterns. eMarketer’s latest research report titled Cross-Border Ecommerce 2017: A Country-by-Country Look at Consumer Behavior and Trends looked at cross-border shopping patterns across 16 markets globally.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is preparing to enter the mobile payments market, reportedly working to get retailers to accept Amazon Pay as a payment method. A person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that retailers may be resistant to the effort because they would view it as a threat. Amazon wants to first gain market share in the U.S.

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JULY 26, 2017

The eCommerce arena can be tough for retailers to navigate. One recent disrupter is multinational retail corporation Walmart. With one of the larger online retail presences, Walmart is taking aim at a lucrative eCommerce market — China. based retailer. omnichannel shopping festival.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The company also allows for 70 different currencies from regions around the globe, including Brunei, Aruba, Hong Kong, Haiti and others. Amazon wants to expand its payment service beyond online payments, and it is reportedly working to convince retailers to accept the option as a way to pay.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Moka’s cloud-based POS platform assists restaurants, coffee shops and retail outlets with handling payments. GoPay , Gojek’s app-based digital payments platform, acquired Indonesian group-saving network Mapan in 2017. million active monthly users in the rest of the region. million active users. The company said it has 7.1

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MAY 10, 2018

Mobile payment capabilities are on the forefront of retail executives and tech staff. In a survey by Zynstra , some 65 percent of retailers said they pegged mobile payments as their top priority for in-store technology, Chain Store Age reported. As a result, the region can be an “early adopter” of the technology. Mobile Wallets.

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APRIL 2, 2018

With the popularity of “small retail” growing in China, Walmart has opened a small-format supermarket in the city of Shenzhen. The location carries items that consumers can also buy on the retailer’s store on JD.com , Reuters reported.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Cleveland-based firm says that it is “reviewing strategic alternatives for its retail portfolio.” According to Chain Store Age , this could mean shifting or significantly reducing its investment in the mall and retail center industry to instead focus on apartments and office buildings.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Most of those gains, however, were lost later in the day following Mastercard’s separate announcement of a potential regulatory fine from the European Commission over its inter-regional interchange fees. trillion: Total value of transactions processed in 2017 so far (gross dollar volume). “Safety and security is a key priority.”

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MARCH 22, 2018

The move marks the first time H&M has sold its main brand through a third-party retailer, trade publication Business of Fashion reported. The Swedish retailer entered China’s online retail market with its own eCommerce store in 2014. H&M also has to keep in mind what products consumers in China would like to purchase.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

wherever Walmart cuts prices (and after all, they are within 15 minutes of 90 percent of American consumers), prices in the area continue to drop as retailers race to undercut Walmart. But for the American customer contemplating a grocery run this weekend, it’s a sizzling time as scores of retailers are trying their best to woo them.

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MAY 17, 2017

The global card industry continues to provide growth opportunities in several geographic regional and vertical markets,” Al Vrancart, ICMA founder emeritus and industry advisor, said in the press release. The outlook for 2017 and beyond is for continued moderate global dollar growth and buoyant card units.”. In addition, there was $7.55

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MAY 24, 2018

“Through our investment in YellowPepper, we want to bring the best of Visa’s technology and capabilities to a broader set of partners and clients across the region,” Eduardo Coello, regional president for Visa Latin America and the Caribbean, said in the announcement.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

As PayPal reaches saturation points in Western markets, it wants to continue to expand internationally, especially in India, where the country’s 450 million mobile users make it an attractive target for retailers. We look at regions and then there are countries of importance? PayPal considers the country critical to its growth.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Also in Europe, the European financial markets regulator has said that it wants to spend one million euros to promote market stability in the region as pertains to cryptocurrencies and FinTechs. That document focuses on budgets and regulatory efforts across the region. Crypto Regulations. billion over the corresponding period.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Grocery retailer Kroger is partnering with Berlin farming startup Infarm to offer “living produce farms,” Kroger announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. This is the vertical farming company’s first venture into the U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Founded in 2017, Nectar claims to sell more than 1,000 mattresses per day, and said that in 12 months, it reached revenues of $55 million. 1 independently owned American mattress retailer , with stores throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. In business for more than 30 years, Mattress Warehouse is the No.

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JUNE 8, 2018

The news comes a few months after Walmart inked a deal with Tencent to use WeChat Pay, its popular payment app, in all of its stores in the western region of China. Both companies have been pouring billions of dollars into the retail market since the beginning of 2017, aiming to dominate the mobile payment market.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2016. This was a big year for fintech, with new regulations, new startups, and new technologies displayed across events like Sibos and Money20/20, making it clear that the progress of fintech can’t really be stopped. But how will it continue? That’s the real Read More.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The firm is locked in a battle with Grab , also a ride-hailing firm and one that is also targeting the Southeast Asia region. The two companies are tapping the fundraising well, and where Thailand’s Central Group, a retailer, at the end of last month confirmed that it has invested $200 million in Grab’s Thailand operations.

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