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OCTOBER 6, 2020

With the busy holiday season upon us, we are proud to offer a truly multi-channel payment solution that has proven to bring new customers and increased sales to our retail partners,” Afterpay Global Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Davis said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

Asda Is Thinking About Apple Pay… Maybe. Asda, is testing Apple Pay. has refused to support Apple Pay and instead rolled out its own app, Walmart Pay, for use with iOS and Android in December 2015. Asda is being noncommittal about future plans and is not saying whether there may be a wider rollout of Apple Pay to its 626 U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Millennials are a force to be reckoned with, as they are made up of approximately 90 million individuals with significant spending power: By 2030, their aggregate annual income is projected to be more than $4 trillion. Attracting Millennials. Approximately 75 percent of Gravy’s users are millennials. Second Chances.

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Millennials Branding Mobile Apple 118

PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Convenience is key in the retail sector, especially in eCommerce, where merchants with frustrating or complicated online shopping processes can easily lose customers. Avoiding such an exodus means retailers must be flexible when developing the tools consumers use to make purchases. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth.

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Millennials Mobile Retail Branding 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Also, Apple has gained three separate patents related to the Apple Watch. And Amazon is testing out a new payment system that uses handprints for checkout instead of a card or an app. Apple Patents Biometric Watch Band. Today in the payments news roundup, Mastercard announced it has joined the Marco Polo Network.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Millennials Drive More to Faster Payments . Weak iPhone Sales Cost Apple Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars in Market Cap .

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Online Payments Millennials Apple 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….

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Millennials Mobile Digital Banking US 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. It’s finally here: with the iOS 11.2

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

This might be a ploy to retain T-Mobile customers, but it’s also intended to appeal to consumers without any real affinity for a more traditional financial services provider, including the highly coveted millennial, as well as the unbanked and underbanked. One in five consumers agreed with online retailers serving as FIs, while 27.5

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Millennials Mobile Study Branding 145

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

s largest convenience food retailers, Co-op has more than 2,600 stores and fuel sites across the country. Co-op customers in 30 food stores in England, Scotland and Wales will be able to scan products on their own device as they shop next month (August), with payment deducted from their Apple Pay or Google Pay accounts.

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Retail Millennials Mobile Operations 139

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. The executive also said the retailer saw an “1,000 percent increase” in purchases of pizza slices made through the SmartPay service since January 1. One of the retailers to tap into this technology? stars and 30 customer reviews.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

With the app, Affirm users can shop at almost any retailer by creating a onetime-use virtual card instead of being limited to shops that have Affirm integrated at checkout. . The app also gives users the ability to pay at any brick-and-mortar store that accepts Apple Pay or Google Pay. .

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Payments Millennials Retail Cards 139

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Payments providers need to bring the traditional card to life and create a real-time interactive experience for consumers.”. consumers trust traditional card providers the most, followed by providers like PayPal, banks and established tech companies. The Skymeter eliminates the need to use cash, credit cards, or a mobile phone to pay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

While there are still some retailers today that have either a cash-only policy or still take cash, most consumers do not typically carry it on them. The data also shared that 56 percent of millennials do not feel comfortable carrying cash in their wallet, which could be due to concerns of either spending it all too quickly or losing it.

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Payments Apple Cards Samsung 143

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Once upon a time, it was predicted that the rise of smartphones would spell the end of traditional retail, but that hasn’t really happened. And roughly one-third use their devices to “showroom” — one of retailers’ biggest fears a few years ago — to compare prices at competitors. Most use stored credit cards (38.9 percent and 63.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Millennials have shown remarkable interest in these solutions, which allow consumers to finance purchases with specific terms when they check out online. Millennials lead in the early adoption of BNPL, especially older “ bridge millennials ,” or those aged 32 to 41 who tend to have more purchasing power than their younger counterparts.

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Payments Millennials Survey Trends 260

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Gift cards may seem a logical answer. What happens if you buy a card from a store that’s not exactly right for that person? Stuck is stuck, with a tight smile of thanks, and perhaps that card is left in a drawer. Stuck is stuck, with a tight smile of thanks, and perhaps that card is left in a drawer. But not brand.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

For Mastercard , the acquisition furthers its continued strategy to move well beyond cards, to deepen its presence in account-to-account activity and to extend its position beyond credit and debit cards. The world’s largest retailer by sales quietly filed an application with the U.S. Weddings, the Millennial Way?

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Apple Virginia Regulation Millennials 115

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Legacy banks are similarly at work, with one major FI seeking to beat out FinTech competition by offering same-day access to credit card deposits. Southwest Airlines recently signed an agreement with two payment companies to enable it to accept Apple Pay. Millennials no longer rule the mobile services space.

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Mobile Payments Apple Millennials 246

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. billion in 2017.

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Apple Mobile Fraud Branding 159

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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Millennials Study Course Trends 222

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Recent days have brought the debut of the “first mobile-enable lottery card” in the state, according to the companies behind the card, Linq3 and Blackhawk Network. The product combines the gift card with the lotto entry, and here’s how it works, according to statement announcing the launch. Lotto and Payment Cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Customers participate through a customer intake program in the Nordstrom New York City store in exchange for Nordstrom gift cards that can be spent at its signature brands as well as its owned brands HauteLook and Trunk Club. It is playing the sustainability card this year, with Fashion Footprint Calculator. It says some 57.5

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New York City Marketing New York Los Angeles 124

Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 6, 2015

While bankers may be a bit fatigued this year by articles about payments, the more enlightened Gonzo bankers are paying close strategic attention to the single most impactful payments trend in our industry: the shift from a plastic card to a “card-not-present” world. times faster than card-based transactions.

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Cards Fraud Apple Google 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. Apple Needs To Diversify. Meanwhile, consumers in Asia have no such qualms, while the U.S. is mired in cybersecurity anxieties.

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Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Riders with NFC-enabled mobile phones will be able to download the EASY Card, and for those without NFC-enabled phones, the app will provide a display-generated ticket and one with a bar code.

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Samsung Google Mobile Millennials 100

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. But let’s not forget the role of the teenager in digital retail, financial services and transactions. Retail and Teenagers. million in fresh capital.

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Digital Banking Google Mobile Groups 139

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The consumer electronics side excludes some key brands, such as Apple, Samsung, Dell, Google and Sony. Last week, the company reported that its online business is up nearly 100 percent compared to last year, in part due to demand from millennials who prioritize renting or buying used products over purchasing new gear.

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Branding Samsung Meeting Millennials 192

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

12% : The average boost paying with Apple Pay gives unattended retail. 77% : The proportion of millennials using mobile banking each month. 700 Million : The approximate number of chip cards in circulation in the U.S. Owlet Baby Care’s connected infant sock wants to lower that number, a lot.

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Millennials Apple Mobile Fraud 100

Celent Banking

OCTOBER 10, 2016

There’s still plenty of fragmentation in the market : Android is an open system utilizing Host Card Emulation (HCE), while Apple is a closed system using a secure element. While the system is safer than traditional cards, the perception that it’s less safe is keeping many users from adopting it.

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Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Here are some of the other big winners and losers of the retail game at the moment. Millennials don’t seem to be feeling Banana Republic any longer, according to a study by RBC Capital Markets. Forty-eight percent of millennials polled said they disliked the chain, compared to only 22 percent who said they liked it.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Branch innovation and branch closings.

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Retail Trends Millennials Mobile 40

NCR

JUNE 26, 2017

Whereas in years past, a cashier may simply have had to ask “cash or card?”, In store, options such as contactless cards, NFC-equipped smartphones and even wearable devices such as the Apple Watch allow consumers to choose whatever option is most convenient for them at any given time. billion ($2.05

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Payments Millennials Retail Cards 75

PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

With all that extra money they would have been spending on avocado toast, millennials will surely be diving into homeownership any day now. Joking aside – the retail news is that Amazon said to expect lower prices on staples at Whole Foods stores starting as soon as the ink dries on the deal, and apparently avocados fall into that category.

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Millennials Online Retail Apple 109

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The startup drew jealous ire from competitor Facebook/Instagram , success from millennials and confused befuddlement from baby boomers this year, along with a $1.81 This year wasn’t the worst for Apple … but it wasn’t particularly great either. billion funding round back in May. It seems to be working for it. Oh, chatbots.

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Apple Security social media Study 109