PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound. Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent memory. Retail sales are up 5.9

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Accenture

MAY 30, 2019

Loss rates increased slightly YoY, and issuer after-tax returns are strong for those that report. Chase, Capital One and Synchrony continue to lead issuers with purchase volume growth of over 8 percent YoY?. Industry statistics (based on non-retail card issuers in scorecard section). Key themes. Partnership developments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Consider that many banks have one person in their marketing department, and then they task that person with managing events, merchandise, and brand building. Build a campaign to acquire new customers or, at a minimum, remind your current customers to save for taxes, incentive compensation, emergencies, or any number of other items.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The company’s CEO Millard Drexler said a challenging retail environment made it hard for the company to achieve its goals. The weakening sales come on the heels of its chief investor TPG Capital’s move to write down its stake in J. Its revenue fell by 3 percent to $567.5 million, the company announced in a statement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“Ernest Chew, who heads the British lender’s capital goods and automotive investment banking team in the region, will join Carro as its chief financial officer in February,” the news service said, citing unnamed sources. According to the report , the deal comes as Carro raised some $30 million in fresh capital. Toyota’s Move.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Specifically, Global Blue focuses on tourists spending abroad, and offers products that help capitalize on tax-free shopping as they buy luxury goods. Holiday (and Post-Holiday) Shopping: Throughout the month of December helped push retail sales up more than 5.8 Retail sales were up 3.6 percent year on year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. One company that’s looking to capitalize on the cannabis market is startup on-demand delivery company greenRush. This is the marketplace that connects patients with retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. She believes lockdown orders created a loophole that allowed large chains that offer essential retail to continue selling non-essential goods like toys and electronics. There is no shortage of other larger scale ideas.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Likely, it might be a combination of the above, but setting a branching strategy should dictate capital allocation, branch layout, marketing, and staffing. Banks should have a clear and stated set of measurable objectives for their branches and then allocate capital accordingly. Our point here is branching isn’t a passive activity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Indeed, when it comes to younger consumers these days, eSports are reportedly on the rise (including with high school students), and are even prime part of plans to revive retail malls and to collect more states taxes , as PYMNTS has covered. As a result, consumers aren’t stuck with watches they no longer want to own.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Given the rapidly evolving competitive landscape, we are also accelerating our strategic investments, leveraging the benefits of tax reform.”. Although the retailer’s revenue number was a beat, it still represents a year-over-year decline of about 2 percent — Lowe’s just declined less than analysts were expecting. tax reform.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M savings accounts. Key takeaways.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S. Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. The tax, technically known as “Tax Deducted at Source” (TDS), is sent directly to an account held by the central government.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Marrying payments with commerce, Cregan and his team created a merchant coalition that uses geolocation and mobile technology to, say, inform cardholders that they are within a short distance of a participating retail location, offering a discount for a limited time (perhaps $2 off a specialty beverage for the next two hours.). Mobile’s Role.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 16, 2022

This may not be a unique need of Black consumers, but one in five anticipate using Bitcoin to make retail purchases in the next year or two—a higher percentage than members of other racial/ethnic groups. Daylight provides its LGBTQ+ members with Visa-branded cards in their preferred names, even if they don’t match their legal identification.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

On Monday (March 13), the Canadian government was forced to pull the plug on its website for filing federal taxes after it discovered that hackers broke into the statistics bureau last week. Bad actors are constantly looking to capitalize on any bugs that are revealed and act quickly to cause as much damage as possible.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. Instagram is a place for people to treat themselves with inspiration, not a place to tax themselves with errands. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

“We are striving to attract and retain the best talent in order to win the future of retail and the key component of that is the work environment that we are creating,” said Dan Bartlett, Walmart’s executive vice president of corporate affairs, who is overseeing the project. Particularly when it comes to AI and advertising. Guess what?

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Given the nature of technology and consumer habits in the retail banking sector today, one of the big challenges for financial institutions is identifying and applying usable insights from the ever-expanding array of customer data available. trillion) in 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Yet, small business (SMB) banking wasn’t the only highlight of this week’s B2B venture capital roundup, with the two largest fundraises showcasing China’s rising B2B FinTech ecosystem in areas like expense management and invoicing. As part of its rebrand , blockchain payments firm BitPesa is now AZA Group.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The Nike retailing model has shown itself again as The Gap announced Thursday that it will close underperforming stores, focus on the digital-first economy and exit its mall locations. As Macy’s CFO Felicia Williams told a retail conference in September: “Our intention is to change the composition of our store base.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Capital One , for example, opened the year with earnings that reflected higher quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year defaults, and a jump of 5 percent in credit loss provisions. Citibank’s store-branded card portfolio, for example, is expected to see a charge-off rate of about 4.6 percent in 2018 — up from the 4.32

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Goldman Sachs reported on its Q1 earnings call that Marcus, since it launched, has originated $3 billion of new loans and taken in $9 billion of new retail deposits. Many of Franklin’s published aphorisms have survived the test of time and remain quite familiar.

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NCR

APRIL 19, 2016

One of the least favorite tasks of any entrepreneur might be raising capital. Whether you’re a restaurateur or a retailer, having access to capital can help you take your business to the next level. Evan has built a career around successfully launching and growing new brands and services along with building successful teams.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 that the only certainty in life was death and taxes. Over the last decade, innovators have capitalized on the consumers’ growing desire to save time, using mobile devices and apps to create any number of ways to do that. Maybe even spendable. The 24-Hour Clock. and end at 11:59 p.m., 24 hours later.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. 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. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. Sears and Kmart.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. In September 2015, Quirky finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. Total Funding: $60M.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. It had a great brand. to buy half of.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Dockless systems, which allow users to park their bike or scooter anywhere along the sidewalk rather than in a fixed docking station, are more convenient and less costly to scale given lower capital costs, as operators don’t have to build out fixed stations. The service essentially turns their car into an additional source of revenue.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, PNC, and Wells Fargo all offer digital and mobile banking options. In 2016, Goldman Sachs introduced its own online bank offering, Marcus, with an aesthetic and brand promise very similar to challenger banks. Digit has raised $36M in venture capital to build out its service.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Forged strategic partnership with United Capital. Honored as the Innovation Showcase Award winner by the attendees of the BAI Retail Delivery conference. Personal Capital ( FD15 ). Teamed up with WooCommerce to help online merchants manage sales taxes. Announced sales-tax accuracy guarantee. BehavioSec ( FD15 ).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

For many retailers, especially those focused on eCommerce, the next several weeks are crucial. Clearbanc , which provides growth capital for online brands, said on Wednesday (Nov. Front load your inventory and get the capital you need in as little as 24 hours. firms navigate the uncertainties tied to the U.S./China

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