PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And according to experts, the impacts from the storm will likely be felt throughout the end of 2018 and perhaps into 2019. We do not engage in surge pricing, and product prices do not fluctuate by region or delivery location,” an Amazon spokesperson noted. “We in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in reference to Florence.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Power 2018 U.S. The data showed that overall SMB bank customer satisfaction is at 800 (on a 1,000-point scale) in 2018, which is lower than the overall satisfaction scores found in the J.D. Power 2018 Retail Banking Satisfaction Study and the J.D. Power 2018 Credit Card Satisfaction Study.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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JUNE 17, 2020

upheld a 2018 ruling by a lower court, the Court of Appeal, that payments firms Visa and Mastercard had restricted competition for retailers by levying fees on transactions, known as multilateral interchange fees (MIF). The high court’s dismissal of Visa and Mastercard’s appeal paves the way for the retailers to seek compensation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In the press release announcing the new feature, Walmart noted that customers can pay via cash, check, credit card or Walmart Pay. The retailer said at the time that “associates will help customers pay and go by simply swiping their credit card and providing them with a paper or electronic receipt for their purchase.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

There’s good news for Amazon Pay users in India: Amazon is giving customers in the region cashback of up to Rs 1,000 ($14) when they load in Rs 5,000 ($71) or more, according to reports. The cash add-ons are available until the end of January, and the extra cash will be given in the form of an Amazon gift card. percent stake to Witzig.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The shift from magnetic stripe to EMV chip cards marked one of the 21 st century’s most widespread payment developments. Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities.

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PYMNTS

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. consumers have been slow to embrace digital wallets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Virtual card issuance. Business lending and corporate cards. Fraud prevention tools. Supporting merchant partner growth. Growing the internet economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Providers serving a wide array of businesses have access to more card or customer data than individual merchants, meaning they may be more able to flag individuals showing signs of fraudulent or unusual behavior. . Fraudsters can use fake IDs and stolen cards to place orders and quickly make off with items before retailers catch on.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

“Increased Allpoint and bank-branded transactions across many of our retailers drove 3 percent growth in our North America business, excluding the impact from 7-Eleven,” said Cardtronics CEO Edward H. According to a recent report, consumers there used their debit cards 13.2 Meanwhile, the U.K. now using them. billion and $1.34

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PYMNTS

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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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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Prime members with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature credit card will be rewarded with 5 percent cash back at Whole Foods, and the Prime program will also soon be the rewards program for all of Whole Foods. Meanwhile, Apple’s market share in the region is flat. to receive their food in an hour. The net result? That comes as 16.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well.

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CB Insights

MARCH 8, 2018

Digital banking startups — or challenger banks — have gained traction over the past few years by bringing retail banking services mobile. Banks in Fintech: what’s ahead in 2018. What we’re watching in 2018. To do so, Monzo launched a prepaid card instead of a full account product. First Name. customers since 2014.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“Excluding the gain on sale in the prior period, revenues increased 3%, primarily driven by an increase in cards revenues and improved deposit spreads,” Citigroup said in a statement. Card average loans for the bank increased by 2 percent year over year, while card purchase sales increased by 5 percent in the third quarter of 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Revenue from credit cards gained 1 percent, standing at $5.1 Drilling down into the consumer profile a bit, Citi said that in North America, total revenues from consumer banking in this region came to $5.2 billion, which was up 1 percent year on year, and where retail services , stripping out mortgage activity, was up 5 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. The “whose customer is it” question is now at the core of a number of the platform dynamics at play today and experiences that shoppers and retailers have with those platforms. Trackers And Reports . In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

And New England isn’t the only place enjoying the autumn chill as it sets in — although we are perhaps enjoying it more colorfully with the region’s famed foliage. Gift Cards’ New Unfavorable Fans. In fact, they have favored brands, with iTunes and Google Play cards popular favorites.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

According to a study of retailers, the top subscription service-driven benefit is greater revenue (67 percent), followed by greater profitability (61 percent). A majority (57 percent) of B2C subscription retailers report a churn rate of 2.9 percent) had subscriptions for consumer retail products. No surprise, it’s about sales.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

Blue Apron is already working with Costco to sell meal kits that were specifically designed for the retailer in its locations in the Pacific Northwest and the San Francisco Bay area. Beyond Costco, Dickerson said it’s important for Blue Apron to have partners with national reach as well as partners that are “strong regional players.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

However, an awful lot is in fact different at the dusk of 2018 than it was at the dawn. The year 2018 saw massive changes in where consumers shop, how they pay, and what goods and services they want in their carts. Yet, as 2018 was coming to a close, Facebook was hit with just a bit more bad news. The Facebook Follies.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

Retail & consumer. SoftBank has invested in 35 companies in the retail & consumer sector in 2021 so far, making it the most popular sector among its 2021 investments. Meanwhile, AI 100 winner AInnovation brings AI business solutions to clients in retail, finance, and manufacturing. Fitness & wellness tech.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2018

China Leads The 2018 Advertising Push. That amounts to roughly 1 percent of China’s total advertising budget for 2018. They really don’t want to miss anyone — and the commerce actions that the 2018 World Cup is generating is very global. This year’s FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia will add $2.4B

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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. Swipe fees alone are a $90B-a-year business for banks, card networks like Visa, and payment processors like Stripe. It’s likely that Amazon was too early to P2P payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Card volume for on-demand, live-streamed and game or software content increased by 35 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to a First Data SpendTrend report. Regular retail experienced just 14 percent growth year-over-year, suggesting on-demand is fast emerging as a developing segment for digital commerce brands.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Between June 2017 and June 2018, for instance, consumers withdrew more than $30 billion from non-interest earning accounts at U.S. Not only that, but the community, regional and direct banks have managed to capture only 37 percent of the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. “Those operations manage and own 50 percent of [U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Despite ongoing meetings throughout 2018 between WhatsApp’s chief executive and India’s central bank governor, the two have not been able to come to an agreement. “I Warby Parker reported last week that it was hit by a cybersecurity attack between September and November of 2018 that affected about 198,000 of its customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Innumerable are the stories that say retail is dead. Why should retail be any different? Projections from the United Nations show that the total number of online shoppers, as measured globally, should grow by 50 percent between 2013 to 2018 to as many as 1.62 to the United States. Among the findings….

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

One vendor at past festivals, who sold nuts to concertgoers, said that the company that operated the festival, as well as others in the region — WCMC, which in turn is owned by IMG — allowed vendors to keep cash proceeds from sales. In 2018, 68 percent of B2B customers have maturities of at least 40 days, said the report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

According to one recent estimate , consumers globally in the third quarter of 2018 downloaded 29 million apps from Apple and Google app stores, up 10 percent year over year. As reported by PYMNTS , in the third quarter of 2018, Apple ’s App Store came out on top in a big way, earning nearly 93 percent more app revenue than Google Play.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

million customers enrolled in its Groupon+ loyalty program, which is designed to offer customers voucher-free discounts that link to charge cards, while also providing them with rebates when they use the program. million active customers in the region by the end of June. Groupon said that at the end of June, it had about 5.1

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APRIL 16, 2019

Of specific concern are transactions completed when neither the card nor the cardholder is physically present (card-not-present or CNP fraud), as well as cards taken out by criminals under false identities (application fraud). Over 50 percent of global online retail sales in 2018 originated from the region.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The new SCA Impact Playbook explores how subscription-based merchants can prepare for SCA and manage conversion, churn and card-based risk. The Three Cs: Conversion, Churn and Card-Based Risk. The goal is for merchants to think about how they will manage the SCA transition, and to develop a fraud and exemption strategy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

While international food retail group Ahold Delhaize (AD) has seen value drop consistently since the beginning of March, the last week of April trading indicated signs of a rally, closing the month out on an up note. As of today, Instacart operates in 41 U.S.

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