Chris Skinner

AUGUST 5, 2019

Over a decade ago, I curated a book about MiFID – the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. I don’t blog about this much these days, as my audience is firmly in the retail and payments technology space, but I still keep close track of the investment markets, clearing and settlement, … The post How does MiFID II and FinTech work?

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Accenture

MARCH 12, 2020

Payments that are instant, invisible and free (IIF) have quickly become the norm, especially in certain segments of the market like airlines, fashion retail, hotels and online travel agents. The post What the rise of in-app payments means for banks appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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BankUnderground

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding where the market thinks inflation is headed is crucial for policymakers, investors, and anyone who wants to keep their financial ducks in a row. They are like the crystal ball of inflation expectations, allowing traders to hedge against inflation risk and giving us a peek into the minds of market participants.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Before consumers started to trade brick-and-mortar shopping experiences for eCommerce websites, retailers could bring customers through their doors with window displays. According to the PYMNTS Virtual Reality In Retail Report , there are expected to be 100 million AR/VR headset users by 2022.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea for the market or a legal misstep, the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is going to put 5G on a faster track. For retailers, 5G stands to be an opportunity to get closer to consumers and amp up the in-store experience. But one thing is clear. 5G also makes video chat viable.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With brands everywhere rushing to either revamp existing channels or launch new ones, the line between traditional retail and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites is not only getting blurred, but it’s raising questions about whether this trend is a short-term reflexive phenomenon or the start of a long-term strategic realignment.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Among the hottest battles for eCommerce market share involves private label products, with a recent move from Walmart among the latest developments in that particular arena. But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

User goes to Walgreens and registers the retail store in app. While this is true everywhere, this is a particular challenge in a market like India. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. MuniRisk solves information fragmentation for municipal market participants. 09:15 am MuniRisk.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This blog marks Part 1 of our Embedded Finance Blog Series and will introduce the overarching concept of embedded finance, setting us up to discuss embedded payments, embedded lending, and embedded insurance (all of which fall under the embedded finance umbrella) in future blogs. The Technology Behind Embedded Finance .

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. 26, the eCommerce operator — via its Alexa Skills Kit Blog — announced the debut of “two new Alexa capabilities that will help create a more natural and intuitive voice experience for your customers.”. Get ready for more voice-enabled retail in 2020.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A surge cap in Chinese stocks, fueled by the stimulus package from the government to combat the virus-riddled economy, has brought about fears of a repeat of the 2015 market crash, according to Reuters on Wednesday (Feb. He urged investors in a blog post on Feb. percent gain in China’s blue-chip CSI 300 index.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Retail is perhaps an unexpected entrant into the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market, but it’s proving to be an area in which being there virtually can be seamlessly substituted for being there actually. The applications for such technology are wide-ranging. Changing How Guests Prepare.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The talks — and the retail offerings — will come to WeWork spaces in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Philadelphia, Glossy reported. The events and shops allow J.Crew to gain visibility and add to its strategy of featuring non-models for its marketing. Crew has struggled with the retail reset that is sweeping the segment.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

A lesson that is particularly true in retail — where merchants’ main and overriding goal is to be one with the will of the people, with people being synonymous with consumers. It also, as it turns out, gives normal people a voice — and with that voice a better shot at influencing outcomes.

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PopularBank

JUNE 21, 2022

Popular Bank is thrilled to welcome Bertha Rozier as SVP of Retail and US Transformation. Based in New York, Bertha will oversee our retail business, leveraging her experience leading multi-disciplinary business units and her expertise in marketing, product, and customer experience.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

American quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are growing in markets around the world that are thousands of miles away from the United States. As it stands, the quick-service pizza chain has more than 15,900 stores in over 85 markets around the world and over half of its global retail sales are through international locations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s. One recent example of the intersection of social media and retail comes from Facebook-owned Instagram. Regulation might be in the future.

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FICO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Risk-Aware Marketing to Personalize Telco Customer Engagement. Innovators are shoring up their market share by opting for cloud-hosted platform technology more typically favoured by banks. Here's how technology from the banking space can help telcos compete with aggressively competitive sales and retention tactics. FICO Admin.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

Semiconductor giant Intel has committed to invest more than $100 million over the course of the next five years in the retail industry to connect the physical and virtual components of retail operations. In retail, though, the advantages are especially profound.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Help yourself: Unattended retail just got more seamless and widespread with USA Technologies ’ acquisition of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. USA Technologies powers cashless and mobile payments in self-service retail settings – think Starbucks kiosks and Home Depot key-cutting machines, for example. Its existing customer base in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2016

Google’s AdWords is getting its first major facelift in the 15 years it has been on the market. Going forward, the online advertising platform offered by the world’s most successful search firm will be designed to help retailers (and the marketers they employ) to deliver more ads across more platforms, more effectively.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits. The impact is not consistent.”

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 16, 2018

On Wednesday, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority published the first survey of whether retail or small business customers would recommend their bank to family and friends. … The post Forcing banks to tell customers their ranks appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. Most brands hope to make a big splash when they enter the market – but not for this type of reason. When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

cities can stop by one of the retailer’s airport or mall kiosks to pick up a lightweight down jacket or heat-retaining shirt. Walmart has also introduced standalone kiosks, although the big box retailer’s version is more about supporting its curbside pickup service than about introducing on-the-go convenience via remote retail.

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Perficient

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the first blog in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance , we defined embedded finance and took a high-level look at the goals and strategy a firm should take at the outset of its modern embedded finance journey. In this blog, we will look at how a non-banking company can offer bank-like perks to its clients and workers.

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BankUnderground

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But bonuses could be really important to understand labour market tightness – a topic of much interest at the moment. This blog takes a quick walk through some pay measures, highlighting the role of bonuses, and exploring what has happened to bonuses before, during and since the pandemic. Everyone, that is, except statisticians.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The sale of shoes online has come a long way since the dawn of eCommerce – and footwear continues to help drive innovation in the retail space. The importance of this area of retail was recently underscored by a move involving a Google veteran. Look for more innovation and disruption in this area of retail in the months to come.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2023

In our last blog, How Embedded Finance is Changing Purchasing & Borrowing Behaviors , we looked at embedded payments and loans and why companies would want to offer (increased sales, lower inventory, processing costs, data gathering) these bank-like services.

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Accenture

APRIL 30, 2019

Like this runaway horse, retail banks are now finding that rapidly evolving customer needs and changing expectations are setting the pace for the evolution of the business. audience for a bank to address, but they are a long-term market opportunity, as more than a third of them are under age 35. This is a far tougher.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I wrote a blog the other day for The Next Web. In fact, saying ‘fintech’ is like saying ‘retailer.’ But what exactly are they retailing and, in the fintech sense, what areas of finance are these companies automating? This gets interesting as we now have a market that is spreading its wings into lots of different areas.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And, speaking of making moves, this week’s Data Dive is dedicated to the retailers who have decided to start angling for poll position now, as holiday 2017 is still in the pre-show phase. Reports indicate that Amazon, if and when it enters the market, will expand its senior team with drug supply chain experts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

“Once they’re inside your store, they expect the experience to be a seamless one: More than 40 percent of smartphone shoppers want retailers to automatically surface relevant information, such as the location of the item in the store, a special deal or related products,” Google said in an Inside AdWords blog post.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Who cares about email marketing, after all? But Google — with its dominantly powerful Gmail services — cares very much about email and its potential for marketers, hence its announcement of responsive design for email earlier this week. It’s so 10 years ago.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2024

As the risk of a recession gets pushed out by the market, so does the risk of credit. This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. When you write a blog, your work is there for all to see. Retail is the other sector worth noting as it is the opposite of multifamily.

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