PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. However, legacy banks across the globe have been far from idle when it comes to digital and mobile innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Unsurprisingly, fast food patrons immediately began warring on social media about whether or not the results could be trusted. People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. It’s a contentious question. According to Foursquare , the answer is yes.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand. At IBM Think 2019, Henrique Albuquerque from Bradesco Research and Innovation offered insight into how Bradesco is transforming by focusing their entire business structure around the customer journey. Next was born to complement Bradesco’s strategy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

In-house ordering apps are typical for large quick-service restaurant (QSR) companies, with only those who are willing to take risks and innovate standing out from the herd. Can The New England Patriots Brand Survive Losing Tom Brady? Apple/Disney: Is Apple About To Make The Happiest Acquisition On Earth?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple. Canada and Brazil.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, as the just-released PYMNTS “ Commerce Connected Playbook: Retail Innovation Edition ” indicates, the interesting thing to watch is not that digitization is happening, but how it is happening. They see things on social media, they have been reached through direct marketing, email marketing, text marketing, etcetera about a product.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The two collaborated on a payments solution designed to enable MegaFon subscribers to make purchases or pay bills via their smartphone using Apple Pay or Samsung Pay and a linked virtual Mastercard. The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Releasing AR headsets would put the social media giant in direct competition with AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs. billion, and brands are already getting onboard with the technology. In 2017, the global AR market was valued at $1.43

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated. billion valuation as it seeks to become a lifestyle brand – think sneakers and clothing beyond the jeans scene – on a global stage.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

But then again, capital is being deployed into the sector, with more than $3 billion coming to FinTechs through the first few months of 2019, up 18 percent from last year, as Innovate Finance estimated. billion valuation as it seeks to become a lifestyle brand – think sneakers and clothing beyond the jeans scene – on a global stage.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. Apple … and the iPhone Customer. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

After several years spent trying to infuse its multi-billion dollar business with more forward-thinking concepts with mixed results , last week, the retail giant announced that it will be conducting what amounts to an open call for tech innovation. Biometrics are another avenue along which Walmart may have its innovation sights set.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Coffee chains continuously evolve their branding, in-store design and the way they deliver their offerings to not just keep “the coffee experience” fresh, but also to appeal to the next generation of consumers. Serving coffee will never be the same. The manager went back to her business dispirited and discouraged.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels. Mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Android Pay are also accepted. A Pizza Button.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. Instagram and PayPal Pair Up for Instacommerce. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

We don’t want to see them negatively impacted by a fraud risk,” said Dax Dasilva, CEO of Lightspeed , a company providing cloud-based systems that integrate in-store and online sales into one omnichannel solution while helping companies embrace EMV and other payment innovations. And it all started with Apple, he said. “I

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Under Stuart’s leadership over the past 17 years, OnPoint has gone from under $2 billion in assets to knocking on the door of $10 billion, all while becoming the most recognized financial brand in the Portland market and achieving some of the industry’s best profitability in 2023. Oh, and along the way, OnPoint will provide an amazing $2.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

But not brand. Jain also remarked that innovation in the gift card space — using mobile as a delivery channel — has been marked by “a lot of attempts to digitize gifts and creating a digital channel for sending gift cards. And through the platform, various brands can offer incentives for users to switch into their brand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. That time lag also let Apple build up a veritable army of developers chomping at the bit to build for the iPad at its release.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 6, 2020

The basics are: Tik Tok was big in Asia before an American competitor was purchased and re-branded for $1B: Bytedance Technology Co closed the popular Musical.ly Remember that Microsoft, which among with Apple, Facebook, and Amazon form a $6 trillion Voltron that is the US tech economy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Stripe rolled out chargeback protection, Apple rolled out its take on sign-in authentication , Mastercard launched an open banking platform and Visa and Western Union paired on a global push to card payments – and those are just the top headlines. There were plenty of introductions last week.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And so a sheepherding innovation – and new vocabulary word – was born. Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. They had an idea to hang bells around the necks of castrated male sheep, called wethers , and turn them into the de-facto leaders of the flock.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

The fact remains that FinTech upstarts are making strides, and any number of tech juggernauts — from Apple to Amazon — are nibbling around the edges of financial services. The banks are partnering or acquiring at a heady pace and deploying technologies, like AI and cognitive, to bring those services to a brand that feels seamless.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Leveraging the Virtual Wallet brand it built years ago, it will be worth watching how PNC fares in 2019. Hats off to Greg for taking a $600 million credit union to a $5 billion innovator over his 25 years at the helm. Another example of sincerity and innovation making an impact on local communities. 2X Innovation Barrier Award.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

In fact, across most of the studies released recently, tools such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay attract greater attention and adoption. Even a favored bank-branded technology might supplement these choices rather than replace them. It could even include featuring co-branded tools with technology companies.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves. Amazon hasn’t had nearly the problems with data breaches that have hit some of the other big tech brands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

But it needed to do so, considering that a hefty and growing section of the American population has opted out of cable TV , and opted in to Netflix, Amazon TV, Roku, Hulu and Apple TV. Even Comcast is expanding its on-demand, online video services. Years ago customers could text QVC to purchase items.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

But it needed to do so, considering that a hefty and growing section of the American population has opted out of cable TV , and opted in to Netflix, Amazon TV, Roku, Hulu and Apple TV. Even Comcast is expanding its on-demand, online video services. Years ago customers could text QVC to purchase items.

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NCR

JULY 11, 2016

However, the innovations and use cases for P2P payments vary widely across different markets, with a wide range of methods, transfer speeds, technologies and business models in play, and they impact local markets in different ways. The most popular options.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

” John Mackey of Whole Foods encouraged the crowd to look outside their own business model for innovations as WF looks at the restaurant and tech sectors for many of its ideas, not just competitors. Innovation Showcase & Global Innovation Awards. Bank’s Dominic Venturo’s session on innovation rocked.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. Microsoft was late to the mobile game and quickly fell behind Apple and Android in the platform wars. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. Well, some of us did — mostly those who were willing to sleep on the sidewalk outside an Apple Store got it on day one. And we are calling it iPhone.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

There weren’t many surprises on display when Apple took the stage today in Cupertino for ifs fall device event Tuesday (Sept. Apple also rolled out a new social sharing app called Clips, a first-of-a-kind move by Apple that no one forecast ahead of the event. The Slofie — The Latest Innovation In Social Sharing .

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In the age of Twitter, Apple Pay and Lending Club, it’s important to remember the shareholder performance delivered by Gleason and team when compared to the behemoths. No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond).

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies have taken note of this trend; Apple Pay’s mobile wallet solution requires fingerprint authentication to pay within apps and Samsung is looking at implementing biometrics on their devices in an effort to “promote the payment platform without worrying about scaling security concerns”. Bringing it all together.

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