Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

But for all the challenges thrown up by 2020, the surge of consumers online has forced merchants to raise the level of their digital checkout game, according to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Checkout Conversion Index. percent for online and 1.4 percent for online and 1.4 The year 2020 saw the overall index score rise by 2.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

. “That includes memberships, accounts, loyalty points and more … each representing a unique area of the customer experience that should be protected.”. In a 2019 PYMNTS eBook much like this, we made predictions for eCommerce in 2020 and the next decade.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Its client roster includes MGM Resorts, Caesars Resorts, and Hard Rock Hotel and Casino; the Oregon and Pennsylvania state lotteries; Churchill Downs; Golden Nugget online; and DraftKings, FanDuel, William Hill, and Rush Street sports, among others. billion on games by the end of 2019. There are more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Consumers are empowered to take their own journey through each shopping experience and transaction, all the way up to POS. We’re now at the stage where consumers are demanding more say in every aspect, whether they’re shopping online or in-store. In the U.S., These are huge numbers, and multiplied across the globe, it’s massive.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 Social Media.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2020

Gartner’s Digital IQ Index for 2019 surveyed 80 banking and financial brands, including national banks, regional banks, online banks and fintech startups. It examined 1,200 data […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

According to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook , a PYMNTS and PSCU collaboration, trust is the driving factor in that choice. However, as Lumin Digital President Jeff Chambers told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, that doesn’t mean the digital banking experience isn’t critical to credit unions’ relationships with their members.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. Technology can create efficiencies that allow them to reimagine customer interactions moving forward.

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Lending Community San Antonio Survey 259

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Financial institutions (FIs) cannot simply expect the popularity of debit to persist unaided, however, and must continue to innovate to keep fraud rates at a minimum.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2019

However, they’re probably seeing fewer of these customers walking into a physical branch. Today, 73% of all consumer interactions with financial institutions are done digitally , according to the 2019 FIS Performance Against Customer Expectations (PACE) report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

As of mid-2020, Walgreens has focused on its loyalty program, online capabilities and overall customer experience. The new relationship will allow Walgreens to address those priorities by tapping into Mastercard’s services, including data analytics, loyalty, customer engagement and cybersecurity.

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Payments Branding Analytics Data 174

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. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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CB Insights

MARCH 19, 2019

Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in AI and strategies to watch for 2019. One of the top AI trends to watch in 2019 will be the growth of edge AI across applications. Look for increased investment to the sector in 2019 and beyond. Track all the 2019 AI 100 startups in this brief on our platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

For better authentication, financial institutions (FIs) are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics, attempting to create security measures that don’t frustrate consumers. In the latest Digital Banking Tracker™ , PYMNTS examines how banks are innovating to address these security vulnerabilities.

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Customer Experience Digital Banking Innovation Security 109

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Key Takeaways With more customers leveraging channels like online and mobile banking, community financial institutions are trying to solve how to maintain their hallmark community focus in an increasingly digital world. Technology can create efficiencies that allow them to reimagine customer interactions moving forward.

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Lending Community San Antonio Survey 195

FICO

JANUARY 6, 2020

Here are the 5 customer development posts from 2019 with the most views on the FICO Blog. Consumer Banking Predictions 2019: Four Trends to Watch. In 2019, it will become increasingly clear that these transformation projects require more than just new technology, they also require significant organizational changes.”. .

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

For years, banks have enjoyed a low bar on CFO expectations around payment product sophistication and innovation. percent between 2017 and 2019, down from 5.1 Companies are moving cash off the balance sheet and investing in areas like wages, capital expansion and innovation. But the pendulum has swung in the other direction.

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Payments Customer Experience Survey Capital 150

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. According to a recent report from Forrester and Adobe , brands defined as “experience-driven” grow at a clip of 19 percent per year, compared to 13 percent for others.

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FICO

MARCH 13, 2019

Given new and disruptive innovations in the auto industry such as driverless cars, collaborative economy models with companies like Uber and Lyft entering the mainstream, new subscription ownership models, and the overall shift to digital experiences, it’s clear that the vehicle industry is experiencing tremendous change. 13% of U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

Kroger’s latest maneuver is the introduction of an online marketplace coming this fall, complementing a series of digital upgrades the chain first outlined in 2018. These are people who have experience buying from third parties, and have no anxiety about eCommerce.”. Online Grocery as a Moneymaker.

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Online Customer Experience Report Technology 196

Accenture

JUNE 20, 2019

Payments executives surveyed in our 2019 Global Payments Survey cite customer experience as a top driver of customer disintermediation. Competitiveness in corporate payments is now about moments of truth that make the bank a customer’s best friend—or worst enemy. 1 Accenture 2019 Global Payments Survey.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

With the financial services space continuing to work through these hurdles, Andrew McFarlane, managing director at Accenture’s Payments practice and head of Accenture ‘s Open Banking group, told PYMNTS what he expected open banking initiatives to deliver to the small business banking ecosystem in 2019.

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Customer Experience Survey Trends Data 191

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

sales has swelled to 39 percent since March, up from 20 percent in 2019. percent of restaurant customers said that the only reason they don’t use loyalty programs is because their restaurants do not offer them. Another study found that 80 percent of consumers would order online or via mobile app if eateries rewarded them for doing so.

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New York Survey Digital Strategies Mobile 214

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As PYMNTS noted in the Pandenomics report in early October, “the biggest change of all will likely be the share of consumers shopping for groceries online. percent of consumers who have shifted to grocery shopping online plan to maintain at least some and possibly all of their new digital shopping habits, meaning only 14.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Maybe one day, quick-service restaurant ( QSR ) operators will look back upon 2019 as their cramming experience when it comes to digital security and fraud prevention. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”. Digital Progress. The progress is easy to see.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Payments innovations—from mobile, seamless interfaces to APIs to modern credit scoring—are enabling spontaneous, real-time offers, like point-of-sale (POS) credit and partner-driven distribution models, that make lending easier for both credit users and issuers. 1 Accenture analysis of outstanding loan data from World Bank, Euromonitor 2019.

Payments 150

Payments Lending Examples Innovation 150

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

And that shift has persisted throughout a year where mobile and digital expansion and innovations have been a rare bit of bright spot in an otherwise incredibly challenging environment. In 2019, nearly three-quarters of U.S. Digital Innovations Will Outlast the Pandemic That Inspired Them. A Clamor Is Coming For Subscriptions.

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Study Industry United States Innovation 206

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Kroger continues to redefine the customer experience and provide new ways to shop for, prep and cook meals through exciting brick-and-mortar and digital experiences,” Robert Clark , Kroger’s senior vice president of merchandising, said in a press release.

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Alex Jimenez

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

IBM Think 2019 Campus. As noted in a previous post, I attended IBM’s Think 2019 conference in San Francisco earlier this month. The topics discussed varied from arcane technology topics to discussions about general innovation. The hot topics that I heard during these four days were: AI, Cloud, Diversity, and Innovation.

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blockchain Conference Security Innovation 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

It also goes with the territory anytime a new innovation comes to market. “I Ten years later, you couldn’t get a car without them,” noting that some innovations quickly become a consumer standard because they completely upgrade and transform the experience. A Tale Of Two Business Types.

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Payments Innovation ATM Cards 185

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

trillion in one recent count, innovators are tapping into the subscription business model to offer products and services aimed at keeping consumers in good shape (and good spirits). Beyond vitamins, other innovators are turning to the subscription business model for other offerings designed for consumer wellness. The Subscription Plan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Retailers and other customer-facing platforms adapted alongside the internet to offer these payment innovations, but legal firms still view many of these methods with trepidation. DoNotPay plans to offer in-app ACH transfers, too — something with which it is already experimenting. customers are somewhat more data-shy than U.S.

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Security Innovation Data Payments 130

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Google has recently upped its game in the food service area of retail, further proof that innovation is heating up when it comes to restaurants – and another signal of how the connected vehicle ecosystem is developing. Food Retail Innovation. Solid evidence of that was provided during the recent first-quarter 2019 earnings season.

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Google Mobile Retail Innovation 115

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In October 1829, Sam Patch jumped down the 175-foot Horseshoe Falls (the largest of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls), but Taylor was the innovator who came up with the idea of adding a barrel to the trip. They’ve been around since the 1840’s, and 2019 was a record year for Santa hirings nationwide. “We

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Video Customer Experience Innovation Course 195

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

We’ll skip the obligatory “un-Happy Meal” joke, because that misstep for a fast food titan demonstrates the slings and arrows of quick-service restaurant (QSR) automation, its importance to customer experience, and how even the industry’s best can still get a major rollout wrong. Domino’s has GPS tagged 400 U.S.

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Dallas Customer Experience Boston Mobile 131

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The deployment of Adore Me’s online magazine and catalog is supported by Angular, and has enabled Lucaciu and his team to be agile where its corporate competitors are not. Using Angular improves the user experience – and for Lucaciu, UX is key to AdoreMe’s success. of every 100 mobile browsers hit “buy” in Q4 of 2019, an increase of 0.1

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