PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. The study also found three key areas of competence for retailers looking to remain competitive in the emerging digitized markets: 1. As of today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Perhaps the most important thing for retail executives to understand outside of the “early days” perspective is that AI is going to morph from an engineering-only property to marketing and from a big-scale retailers to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). I don’t know the trends for next year. Round one: AI wins.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

These days, the best place to look may just be on an online platform. Meanwhile, Boston-based international payments and receivables solution Flywire recently announced a collaboration with PayPal to process payments from students and patients using the Flywire platform. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. On-Demand Days .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online furniture retailers are stepping further into the world of physical retail with permanent brick-and-mortar stores. Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

The move comes amid a general trend in all areas of payments and commerce to move beyond the limitations and security risks that come with older forms of ID authentication and verification. Not only that, but over the next decade, some 90 percent of sports bets will be made online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. The beauty brand has also launched pop-up shops in cities like Miami, Austin, London, and Boston. retailers as online shopping powers a forecast 26 percent year-over-year volume surge on National Returns Day.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Calculating how long lockdown trendlines can continue before plateauing or falling off is now the fixation of most CEOs and CFOs, as they closely watch the progress of market-makers. For example, the October Pandenomics report notes that “the biggest change of all will likely be the share of consumers shopping for groceries online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The aim is to stay on top of the latest digital commerce trends to remain relevant. That mindset “is becoming increasingly necessary if retailers want to remain competitive in the market,” the index found. More than six in 10 health and beauty firms — or 61.7 percent — cited improving customer loyalty as the motivation for innovation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. The easiest way to describe what we do,” said David Sobie, CEO of Happy Returns , “is that we’re the buy online, return to store option for retailers that don’t have stores.”. and Houston. and Houston.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Avail, along with its companion in the space, Cozy, are part of a growing group of online platforms looking to upend the rental process. Bringing Rent Payments Online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. Because they are special to us.”. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That trend continued in the second quarter and looks likely to be a dominant trait in the 2020s, only a few months away. The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. To take one example, look at the Starbucks results from Q2.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is the third article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. Articles from this week on will explore some of the broader themes within each category.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. Big Play of the Week: The Power of Prime Day to Move Markets . Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville . It was a Sting CD.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Indeed, it does not take extensive examination to see, in Wayne Gretzgy’s words, “where the puck is going” Digital needs to be a top technology priority among financial institutions – particularly in highly digitally-directed markets such as North America and Western Europe.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

And the market is showing interest — and investing —in improved mobile tech. People aren’t [going] online anymore — they’re online all day,” Schambach said. “They’re online when they’re sleeping, and they’re even online when they go to a brick-and-mortar store, because everyone always has their phones.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

2022 will be a big year as we move from development to pilot testing and begin to engage more with financial institutions in active planning,” says Nick Stanescu, senior vice president, FedNow business executive, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “We Go-to-market preparations. payment system.”. The pilot experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. And core and infrastructure services that have largely been deployed in-house, like email, directory servers and file servers, are trending heavily toward outsourcing. Maintenance and Speed to Updates.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

If you hadn’t heard the news about Dunkin’ Donuts accepting Masterpass as a payment method in-store, in their mobile app and online — it’s quite possible that you may have already started seeing the ads. This is more than IT or payments, it is marketing, it is training, it is operations, it is design layout and looking at flows of the store.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card.

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers. This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space. How will food leaders adapt in 2018? Please click to enlarge.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …). In an average year, the trends are on a merchant’s side.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie. About the Index.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Modern Medicine: Trends In Medical Devices. Download our research briefing as we take you through private market trends, major investors, and pioneering medical device startups. Kernel is an early-stage brain-machine interface company formed by Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree and the OS Fund.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. Using the CB Insights Trends tool, we can see the spike in media discussion of an impending “retail apocalypse.” ” Is this fear warranted? Yes, physical retail is dramatically transforming.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But does that same retail service trend, driven by the near ubiquity of online and mobile technology, really apply to the relationship-driven model of community banks? And, of course, how such outbound sales and marketing calls are carried out could be as pivotal as to whether or not to conduct them.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Revolutionizing every aspect of sales and marketing in the process? Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

According to Andrea Boetti, vice president of global business development at Fortumo, although Asia has the highest growth in online content consumption, digital merchants often have difficulty collecting payments because many consumers do not have a credit card. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If similar face-recognition algorithms were developed and tested with broader data sets, “disguised face identification” could make protesters easier targets for online vigilantes. The State of Artificial Intelligence. But Singh also recognizes that it could be used for more nefarious purpose.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. See the investment trends, top deals, and active investors in Q2 2018. It also has a Chrome plug-in to support online shopping. Rumor: Klarna is expanding into new markets, with new products.

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