PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Fewer consumers are carrying cash these days, noted Alantria Harris, senior director of product programs and retail for the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta. With the mPOS pilot producing strong results, the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta plans to bring the solution to all of its troops next year, Harris said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

Just last week, Home Depot launched a new federal antitrust lawsuit claiming that Visa and MasterCard are using security measures prone to fraud, putting retailers and customers at risk of thieves. It’s the latest large retailer to raise security concerns , with a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

“This alert is utilized when an emergency is near the associate’s store, and advises associates to use lockdown procedures, moving associates and customers to a secure area.” The retailer also announced last week that it will open more health clinics in Greater Atlanta by the end of the year.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 3, 2019

Bank Innovation Build will take place November 6-7 at Atlanta’s W Hotel Downtown. Bank, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation Build 2019, this blog’s event on best practices in banking innovation. Register here.) Bank Innovation Build will bring together industry leaders […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

Home Depot doesn’t think the “chip”cards on offer today in the United States are living up to the hype – the hype being the security levels enjoyed by European merchants who are currently using EMV. It’s the latest large retailer to raise the security concerns, with a lawsuit filed this week in U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The move has enabled NCR to expand its portfolio for the retail and hospitality industries. Offering flexible and secure payment options is important for our customers,” explained David Long, owner of Urban Eatz, in a press release. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., with 34,000 employees and does business in 180 countries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are rolling out omnichannel options. Retailers are quick to adapt to new consumer expectations, whether they offer faster shipping or an upgraded program offering. In addition, roughly one-third say they feel frustrated when a company doesn’t offer same-day options.

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Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

Other industries with double-digit declines in average loan size are hotel and food, retail, transport and warehousing, and construction. It is essential for banks and credit unions to adjust lending and underwriting strategies to secure profitable new or expanded business loans with acceptable risk.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Home Depot launched a federal antitrust suit earlier this year in which it contends Visa and Mastercard are using security measures prone to fraud, putting retailers and customers at risk of thieves. Atlanta-based Home Depot said new payment cards with “chip” technology remain less secure in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Indeed, new evidence recently emerged about the deployment of the latest generation of mobile technology – one that promises to bring significant changes to retail and payments thanks to bandwidth expansion and faster processing, along with new challenges and questions as early 5G case studies loom. 5G Expansion. cities by the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

In one scheme, they’re telling people to use the routing number of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (0610-0014-6) to make both check and electronic payments through the Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) Network. Merchants who accept these checks run the risk of not getting paid.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In a press release , Sionic said the integration with Oracle Hospitality provides a cardless, three-digit checkout, enabling restaurants to quickly and securely process mobile payments. It’s being piloted in select Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport restaurants. Sionic Mobile announced on Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

The PPP loans are part of the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed by Congress last month. SBA Regional Administrator Ashley Bell said many of the most fragile mom-and-pop businesses were unable to secure a loan before the money ran out, according to a separate Reuters report. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this.” According to CNNTech, several other high-profile Twitter accounts were also hacked into on Wednesday (March 15), including Amnesty International, Forbes and the Atlanta Police Department.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Tune in all week for live-streaming , beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

While new concepts such as sleeping pods and capsule hotels are coming on the scene today, Minute Suites was founded in the late 2000s with the company offering rooms with sofa beds at busy airports across the United States such as Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW).

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NCR

JUNE 24, 2016

Some of the challenges for the region were recently highlighted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, in a feature outlining the organization’s predictions for the payments industry in 2016. While mobile is a wide-ranging area, it highlighted a few key sub-sectors that are set to be particularly prominent in the US this year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

This recent growth has allowed banks to more easily communicate with a larger number of customers using online tools, but FIs must be sure that their onboarding methods can keep them atop this surge, Stephen Welling , director of retail banking for Atlanta-based FI Cadence Bank , told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Rumor has it, there is some sort of football competition happening in Atlanta this weekend. Looking ahead, we see a cashless future for NFL fans, where events, including future Super Bowls, are digital — creating a more secure and seamless payment environment for fans and concessionaires alike.”. We are mostly kidding about that.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

David Lott, a payments risk expert in the Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Atlanta Fed, notes that first party fraud may rise as a result of EMV as criminals shift their attention to easier avenues. Moreover, EMV allows for secure contactless payments, which are exploding in popularity around the globe. Merchants may be slow.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

“The meal kit business is incredibly capital-intensive, requiring companies to secure funding to start and maintain the business. The brand abruptly announced its shutdown after running out of money – and recently saw its assets bought out by True Food Innovations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Last year, TSA security caused many problems and delays for travelers across the U.S. We sat down with JetSmarter CEO and Founder Sergey Petrossov to learn more about the company and its plans for the future. PYMNTS: In your own words, what is JetSmarter about? SP: We strive to make the process of traveling fun again.

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Banking 2020

MARCH 12, 2015

Offering a seamless customer experience through the dizzying variety of channels—and every new app, exciting as it is for the customer, can seem like yet another channel all by itself—requires common platforms, enhanced integration, greater security and of course excellent navigation and other forms of user experience.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

She’s chief operating officer and vice president of the mortgage company, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead, in Atlanta. The bank’s mortgage company has developed a national retail lending presence over the last 18 months using phones and email, rather than branch offices. “We

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

“Maintaining signature as a cardholder verification method for EMV chip cards might not have a similar positive impact on lost or stolen card fraud as experienced in chip-and-PIN countries,” noted Douglas King, an expert on the Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Atlanta Fed. CNP fraud will rise. billion in 2018.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Scott Graf is one of the presenters, a great, smart exec from Atlanta. Samsung SDS provides purpose-built solutions & services for secure mobility, digital identity and authentication, advanced analytics and retail experience in a diverse range of industries including financial services, government, and retail.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The wellness trends is affecting everything from the way gyms operate to how retailers design clothing to how smart cities are designed. Similarly to the retail apocalypse, investors, media, and consumers are questioning whether a “gympocalypse” is brewing. Retailers hope fitness will increase customer engagement and boost profit.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. UberEats , which launched last month (March 2016) as a stand-alone app, was Uber’s first shot across the contextual commerce bow.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. HQ: Atlanta, Georgia. Secure messaging for financial services. Tags: Enterprise, IDology (investor), security, risk management, payments, Finovate alum. Source: NY Times , Finovate. First Data Corporation. Payment processing. Latest round: $2.56 billion IPO. Total raised: Unknown. Source: Finovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2016

HQ: Atlanta, Gerogia. Password management & secure digital wallet. Online investment platform for secured loans. Retail investor services platform. Tags: SMB, credit cards, expense management, bookkeeping, controls, security. Total dollars raised YTD is now $15.7 billion, more than twice the $7.2 Invest.com.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

It’s all done through the smartphone, with bank-level security. Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Retail for a piece.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. I’ve heard that their CEO recently moved to Atlanta but I’m not sure. Bank secured social funding.” How do we heighten security while making it easier for the user. They work in banking and insurance; today’s demo is on retail banking.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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