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JANUARY 28, 2021

The use of Apple Pay, Google Pay and other digital wallets has also been on the upswing since the start of the pandemic. The following Deep Dive examines the interest in contactless payments among credit union members and the opportunity for the CU space to meet members’ changing payment needs through digital innovation.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

In payment methods, Circle K announced a cashierless checkout pilot as convenience stores advance retail innovations. And in education, Google and Apple are facilitating students’ return to class with the help of technology. 7.3K: Minimum number of Circle K stores in operation in the U.S. All this, Today in Data.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. It’s an inspiring story — and one that gets many an innovator out of bed to fight the good startup fight, even in the face of insurmountable odds. When Amazon was just about selling books online, its competition was the physical bookstore.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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JANUARY 1, 2021

If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar. Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Report: The Risky Business Of Navigating Online Sales Tax For Merchants.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Connected devices are becoming ingrained in consumer shopping habits: More than 50 percent of shoppers made online purchases in seven of 13 product or service categories in the past seven days, according to the PYMNTS How We Will Pay Report , while 20 percent went online with mobile apps to buy food to eat at home.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – Green Dot has leveraged its bank-as-a-service in deals with both Apple and Intuit. The company announced on its earnings call yesterday that it was powering the newly announced Apple Pay Cash P2P payment service, as well as offering a prepaid card to customers of Intuit’s TurboTax software.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Yesterday, Apple announced a number of features for both iOS and its desktop operating system, renamed macOS, but the one that struck the payments community was the announcement that Apple Pay was moving to Safari on both desktop and mobile. Just how important is this development, however?

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JULY 11, 2022

When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout. Fintech enthusiasts should also keep a close watch on Apple’s newly unveiled BNPL system, Apple Pay Later. According to Kristen E.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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JUNE 27, 2016

At launch, the service was positioned as an innovative replacement for a well-entrenched standard considered not well-suited for a mobile and digital world. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. There was one wholesaler for every 43 mom-and-pop operations. Lower prices. A&P destroyed A&P.

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MAY 20, 2016

Is the Apple Genius Bar to be supplanted by Genius Groves? But at least at some Apple locations, consumers will be having a more arboreal experience. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the opening of the first Apple store, Apple decided to pull the curtain back on its new production — a new design for sales locations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Warehouses, though still manually operated, are in need of more automation and robotics technology to accommodate the massive challenges and demands created by the prevalence of online platforms. Nike, through the new partnership, aims to introduce more robots to help speed up their operations.

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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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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Roughly one in every 10 consumers today uses voice-enabled devices and apps to browse, shop and buy goods online. In fact, the eCommerce operator is itself facing more competition for the smart home market. That’s not all the bad news for Apple when it comes to smart homes — and other areas of payments and commerce.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

In the bid to hasten their digital transformation, when it comes to innovation , financial institutions (FIs) may benefit from an “app store” approach as they weigh existing and new solutions. The need to streamline new product development is especially urgent as banks have had to pivot to online channels amid the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Also, Apple is expected to see huge growth in its wearables goods, especially its AirPods, over the next four years. The new open sharing rules proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority would “increase innovation and choice” and prevent unfair competition. Apple Expected To See Booming Wearables Demand Through 2023.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

For Big Tech, the bleeding may come from cuts, here and there, targeting individual agreements and operations. Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If As PYMNTS noted on Tuesday (Oct.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Research confirms that QSR patrons are seeking multiple online and offline ordering methods. These innovations have revolutionized diners’ experiences and transformed the purchasing process. Consumers are now spoiled for choice in terms of access to digital wallet options like Alipay, Apple Pay, Google Pay and WeChat Pay.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Apple Pay , for instance, was viewed positively by about 94 percent of customers, but only 70 percent of QSR managers agreed. More than 40 percent of QSRs take mobile payments, with Apple Pay being the most commonly accepted, but less than 2 percent of QSR customers actually use them. Amazon Pay. percent.”. Retail Bridges.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, Epic Games has again asked a California judge to reinstate Fortnite to Apple’s devices. Thunes, the FinTech startup that operates a global cross-border payments network for emerging economies, announced on Tuesday (Sept. The new features include price reduction, online deal notifications and product alerts for customers.

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MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). Europe’s fast-growing online economy has been fueled by the shift to online purchases as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Josh Beck wrote in a note to investors that the online marketplace has received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback from developers, partners and merchants at three recent conferences. Shopify also recently announced that merchants can chat with customers through Apple Business Chat inside of Shopify Ping. “And

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Looking at the name of the product alone, we imagine that the average consumer might wonder if Apple is pulling the plug on something or other. Apple Pay Hits The Web. One month in, Apple Pay on the web is in the top 5 online payments technologies. So what made i-mode so special? Ahead Of Its Time And Contemporaries.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The question for Apple is: Will the slew of offerings announced this week be enough to bring new users into its ever-expanding ecosystem, and also keep current consumers, well, consuming? 15), Apple unveiled a slew of watches and services in a bid to give a tailwind to hardware sales and boost its services business. On Tuesday (Sept.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Filipino online payments platform PayMongo raised $12 million in a funding round led by Stripe, and also including existing investors Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital, and new investor Bedrock Capital. Apple And Epic’s Battle May Head To Trial in 2021. Stripe Heads Up $12M Funding Round For PayMongo.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Amazon has a long history of pioneering online innovation and bringing eCommerce to the rest of the world,” said Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of dLocal. “We The platform bridges the gap between the needs of global, online enterprises and payments realities in emerging countries.

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MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. And likewise, knowing when to hold back.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

This week's Commercial Card Innovation Tracker looks at how the industry is driving SMB adoption, from lowering the cost of corporate card acceptance to looping business card products into Apple Pay. Chase Business Cards Land On Apple Pay. Small Business Card Use On The Rise.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Shoppers who prefer to use Google Pay will be able to do so within the eBay app, mobile website and desktop site, regardless of operating system or device. Google Pay provides users with a fast, simple and secure way to pay online,” said Alyssa Cutright, vice president of global payments, billing and risk at eBay.

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JULY 30, 2020

Plus, the testimony of tech giants on Capitol Hill revealed chief executive officer views on competition and innovation. Enova International intends to purchase online small business lender OnDeck for approximately $90 million in stock and cash. Tech Giants’ Hill Testimony Reveals CEO Views On Competition — And Innovation.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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