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Glossier Brings Shops To Nordstrom

PYMNTS

The beauty brand has launched pop-up shops in cities such as Austin, Miami, Boston and London, but its success has primarily been in online sales of its lotions, lash products and soft, pink-colored lip balms since its 2014 inception. fragrance sales.”. .

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New Report: SMS-Based Outreach Helps Merchants Authenticate Consumers, Boost Online Sales

PYMNTS

Technology giant IBM and Dublin-based client lifecycle management solutions company Fenergo recently partnered to use AI and analytics on the IBM Cloud to help FIs more easily onboard customers. Significant digital onboarding hurdles remain even though many customers have shifted to transacting online or via mobile channels.

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The Buyers: Omnichannel Customer’s Impact On Retailers

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Between 2015 to 2016, consumer expectations for multiple purchase options grew from 61 percent up to 74 percent according to Retail Systems Research’s 2016 Customer Experience/Unified Commerce Benchmark Survey. Through this omnichannel experience, retailers have more ways to connect with consumers.

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AI/BOTS: Consumer Behavior Transformation Via AI

PYMNTS

In the past two years alone, there have been 650 venture capital investments for artificial intelligence technologies — totaling more than $5 billion — and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting that figure will reach a market value of $70 billion by the year 2020.

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Model Bank 2017: Small Business and Corporate Digital Innovation Themes

Celent Banking

When evaluating this year’s Model Bank submissions that are targeted at small business and corporate clients, we identified a number of excellent initiatives in each of the five overall categories: Customer Experience. Operations and Risk. Legacy Transformation / IT Platform Innovations. Emerging Innovation.

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Drinking To-Go With Saucey

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Filling that hole — and making it easy for customers to get their drinks delivered right to their doors — is an area that caught the eye of many an innovator. Boston-based Drizly , which raised more than $35 million, has a foothold in 70 cities and a stated ambition to be the “Amazon of Alcohol.”

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

With large banks, including Ally and Capital One, officially doing away with overdraft fees, banks and credit unions will have to decide how they want to handle the new reality. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Enough said?

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