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DECEMBER 22, 2020

This Year was brought to you by the number 2020 and the letters W, T and F” – Big Bird (more or less). Sit back and enjoy our take on the best and worst of banking in 2020 as you celebrate the holidays. Most Oft-Heard Statements of 2020. Kudos to blazing new trails that many institutions are taking on in 2020.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

The world has changed a great deal since 2020 began. consumers are now grocery shopping using a variety of connected devices, while 46 million (38 percent) are shopping for retail products — without ever leaving the confines of their homes. Forty-two million (30 percent) U.S. Some 130 million (60 percent) of U.S.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Might the coming year be marked by innovation at the point of sale (POS)? Thinking about what will come to fruition by the end of December 2020 gives little runway to predict, say, the most mobile of mobile commerce options (flying cars with embedded payments!) The time frame, of course, is somewhat short. Here Come The Millennials.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As 2020 will be remembered by most as a year of trial. "As 2020 will be remembered by most as a year of trial. That digital glue is payments.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs. Until March of 2020.

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APRIL 10, 2019

certification: They must, for instance, resolve issues when a payment reader’s too-powerful field strength results in damaged smartphones and cards. Fifteen percent of in-store, point-of-sale (POS) transactions are expected to be made through contactless payments by 2020, according to the latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker. Businesses pay 2.75

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JUNE 23, 2020

Airbnb CEO Sees Potential For 2020 IPO Amid Bookings Rebound. Verizon Debuts Visa Credit Card With Rewards. To provide a new method for cardholders to save on their cell phone bills, Verizon plans to debut the Verizon Visa Card. NEW DATA: How Credit Unions Are Innovating To Help Micro Businesses.

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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. The number of Kentucky Fried Chicken locations to adopt kiosks by 2020 is 5,000.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

market for initial public offerings (IPOs) had a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic — or perhaps because of it. billion during 2020’s first nine months. percent during 2020’s first nine months to $1.75 billion — not bad, but far below what other major online retailers are seeing. BigCommerce ($1.6

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MAY 1, 2020

Retail is not the same as it was at the beginning of 2020 — in fact, it isn’t the same as it was a mere month-and-a-half ago, given the quick and sweeping changes that COVID-19 has brought in its wake. Amid economic uncertainty, certain retailers are adapting and innovating in ways we haven’t seen before,” Molnar told Webster.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. The virtual card offers a strong value proposition for corporates in the form of enhanced security and control over spend. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag. Top Trackers And Reports.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

1, 2020 — at one point, the deadline was in 2017. It’s not hard to find experts who predict that, even with the new date, gas stations will fail to comply with the deadline, which is set by card networks. The number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world stands at more than 7.1 LISNR Offering.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Make sure you give your best smile when you are shopping in 2020. That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. But recent changes have sparked even more interest and innovation from commerce operators. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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APRIL 2, 2020

Almost ironically, card products are poised to play a big part in the 2020 cashflow survival story. There are a lot of retailers that are now looking to their local community to effectively prepay through gift cards to sustain themselves in the short term,” he said. In the payments space, how do you get cash now?

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JUNE 4, 2020

Online commerce has soared during the pandemic, prompting retailers of all types and sizes to leverage how they use digital channels to bring back customers while a full return to physical retail remains months away. But the biggest innovations are coming to online retail.

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JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Nike posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. How Much Will Digital-First Stick? Here’s why I say that.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. We’re not trying to replace them,” Cameron Janes, vice president of Amazon’s physical retail division, told CNBC. “I Shoppers enter the store using a credit card. Have other retailers signed on with the service?

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JUNE 19, 2019

The connected vehicle ecosystem is taking shape, and that brings new opportunities to retail. But challenges remain, not the least of which include securing the emerging ecosystem for those connected cards and trucks. Some of the latest developments from the retail side of the ecosystem come from the world of QSRs.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A biometric payment is a point-of-sale technology that authenticates payments by pairing a payment card with a physical identifier of the cardholder. Both Visa and Mastercard rolled out pilot biometric payment cards in 2022. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consumers are going digital and are finding the experience to be an upgrade, while the physical retail channel is becoming increasingly unsatisfying by a pretty wide margin. Herron said that means retail needs to catch up and start rethinking a model that is “definitely broken right now” when it comes to shopping in a physical store.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

The first half of 2020 was a tough time to run a small business on Main Street as stay-at-home orders closed down restaurants and retailers for much or all of the past five months. As for how they’re navigating those shortfalls, 37 percent of SMB owners are tapping personal funds, while 26 percent are using personal credit cards.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

percent year-over-year debit and credit overall same-store sales volume growth among its owner credit unions over the 2020 holiday season, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. 27 in the retail goods space among the organization’s owner credit unions were up 26.2 percent of card present activity on contactless credit cards.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers. Indiana University will have them this month.

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JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time. Retailers, then, can make the sale in the moment — with the help of contextual commerce. And eCommerce retailers are launching live content of their own.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers often need additional coverage during peak holiday shopping periods, hospitals may need substitutes for nurses on paternity leave and construction companies might need to increase staff for sizable projects. Employees’ Payroll Card Opinions. The number of activated payroll cards in the U.S. rose from 3.1

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And it might not go so far in payments and commerce in the coming decade, at least going by the results of a new Mastercard collaboration with Harvard Business Review Analytics on what really works when it comes to innovation, companies and executives. 2020 Innovation Sparks. The report, released Tuesday (Nov.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Issuers sent cards to consumers and providers sent point-of-sale (POS) devices and terminals to merchants. In the webinar, case studies will show how merchants can differentiate themselves by successfully bridging digital and physical retail settings.

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JUNE 19, 2019

The connected vehicle ecosystem is taking shape, and that is bring new opportunities to retail. But challenges remains, not the least of which include securing the emerging ecosystem for those connected cards and trucks. Among the latest developments from the retail side of the ecosystem comes from the world of QSRs.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Retailers, too, had to respond and revise their checkout experiences when fears over the new coronavirus lingering on surfaces led to consumers becoming reluctant to exchange cash with store clerks or insert payment cards into point-of-sale (POS) terminals. About The Playbook.

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MAY 29, 2020

Both Walmart and Amazon made some big add-ons and/or acquisitions this week as they attempt to widen their sphere of retail influence in a post-pandemic world. billion as of 2018, but a sale now would likely reflect a reduced valuation due to the rough first half of 2020. “We Zoox was valued at $3.2 We believe $1.1

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JULY 10, 2020

“We are seeing more and more issuing banks championing virtual cards that feed directly into mobile wallets, doing away with plastic once and for all.”. For example, do we really need plastic cards anymore? Some changes wrought by recent events are not unwelcome. Jumping Straight from Cash to Digital. An End to Plastic.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. SMB lender Liberis announced $42 million in new funding this week in support of its platform connecting SMBs to capital based on their future incoming debit and credit card sales. Berkshire Grey.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

on Halloween 2020, we’re confronted with the prospect of a long, strange COVID winter. Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Contactless payments took wing in 2020 and, given the venture capital flowing into facilitating greater payments choice overall, it’s a safe bet that digital-first payments are here to stay.

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