Abrigo

JANUARY 17, 2024

FinCEN data shows that human trafficking in the United States takes place in a wide variety of industries—hospitality, agriculture, janitorial services, construction, restaurants, domestic work, and so on. Made Free provides ethical, well-paying jobs in the fashion industry to reduce drivers of trafficking worldwide.

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FICO

MAY 16, 2023

FICO will be the primary official partner of the 2023-24 pre-season tour, which will see the Club’s men’s team travelling to the East Coast of the United States for a series of games. We’re excited about developing a strategic partnership between Chelsea and FICO.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

To help hockey players stay up to date on the latest sports equipment, eCommerce innovator the PenaltyBox offers subscription boxes comprised of a myriad of hockey essentials, from well-known brands to up-and-coming companies the PenaltyBox team tests themselves. The company’s largest target market is the 12-and-under age group.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. It’s run through Homeland Security’s National IP Rights Coordination Center.

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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. Ouai , a hair and body care brand founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, will roll out some of its merchandise in 1,200 Ulta Beauty locations in addition to the retailer’s website on Sunday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

We’re proud to deepen our relationship with Phillips 66 and to leverage its powerful market presence, which has expanded nationally over the last few years,” said Jay Collins, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Small Business and Channel Partnerships at WEX in a press release.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

In a press release , the companies said the combined business will operate under the GSTV brand and deliver 3.3 billion annual impressions through more than 18,000 locations in all 50 states by year’s end. “We National and regional marketers across all industry sectors now have a way to reach valuable, attentive consumers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Amazon dominates the online market for apparel and footwear (35 percent of share, or four times the No. 2 player) and they even have remarkably high market share in the total apparel/footwear market in the U.S.,” he wrote in a note to clients. said in an announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Parker continued, “We’re now focused on creating an environment that highlights our heritage and allows consumers to deeply connect with the brand as they prepare for their own exploration, wherever it may be.”. The store closures are said to make up under 3 percent of the company’s 10,000 United States locations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

9) that it will stop selling eCigarette components in the United States, Reuters reports. The incidences of injuries and deaths have, the newswire said, been linked to what are being termed “makeshift brands” other than the dominant market player, Juul Labs. territory.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Earlier this week, Japan ’s cabinet proposed a bill that seeks to, as reported by the country’s national daily, The Mainichi , “improve contract transparency” for deals struck by Big Tech firms — specifically, platform operators — and their smaller vendors. Perhaps not surprisingly, Big Tech might be poised to push back.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And food-ordering platforms are teaming up with restaurant technology companies to make it easier for eateries to accept delivery orders.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Chinese consumers want to know many details, while U.S consumers only want to check out quickly,” Jones said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) worked quickly to ensure they could operate smoothly as the pandemic kept consumers at home and closed brick-and-mortar branches in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. FACILE will be marketed as a competitor to other digital-only banks making headway in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

When Alexa debuted in those nations, users were able to converse with Alexa in their native language — and developers were given local language editions of the Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service to program in. First, nations like Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand did not make the cut for holiday 2017.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The report pointed out that DoorDash handled 35 percent of all meal deliveries in the United States last year, while Grubhub wasn’t too far behind at 30 percent. meal delivery market DoorDash controlled in October 2019 was 35 percent. But not every restaurant is encouraging diners to turn to third-party delivery aggregators.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

-based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. Should U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Amid a push to relaunch its espresso offering and open Next-Gen stores, Dunkin’ Brands reported better-than-expected bottom-line results, but fell short of expectations for fourth quarter revenues. He added that the company was beginning with a small pilot before eyeing an expansion to a bigger market test going forward.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In some ways, Belk department store is the last of a dying breed — and not just because it is a department store in the United States in the year 2017. Small and regional — outside of the Southeastern United States, most people haven’t heard of it. Most brands can’t do exactly what Belk has done.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

Amazon’s entry into a new market is rarely considered good news in the world of retail. But 7-Eleven — arguably the latest big brand facing the “Amazon Effect” — is not quite suffering from the normal terror of confrontation that accompanies a direct clash with Amazon. Blue Apron was already having difficulty keeping investors calm.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

Just about every foreign brand is finding out how far China’s government is willing to go to make sure homegrown brands have first dibs on breathing room. It was only the explosion of online retail and the widening availability of brand-damaging imitations that spurred action.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The rates refer to the rates that United States-based merchants pay to accept Visa cards. Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments Systems. Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga is very much against attempts to split the Global Payments Systems into national domains.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Russia lacks any clever sayings, but there is a widespread national belief that leap years are associated with bad weather in general – and an increased likelihood of being struck by lightning in particular. Other brands are building their pricing around leap day and the number 29. carryout order from Olive Garden.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

All of the items in a Five Below are $5 or less (hence the name), and the customers it draws in are those looking to spare their budget, but still purchase items of a certain branded quality. are just some of the tony new stores that Five Below will share the street with, and the move has left many market watchers scratching their heads.

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MAY 29, 2017

And as marijuana becomes less the exciting and elicit provenance of hardcore Grateful Dead fans and everyone’s burnout cousin and becomes more the provenance of mainstream customers, a problem is beginning to surface in the cannabis market, according to Socrates Rosenfeld, cofounder and CEO of Jane Technologies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

After a winter that seemed on track to last forever, summer has arrived, and with a vengeance in some parts of the United States. The Froyo Robot is new to the market, having gotten its official launch about 60 days ago. The average machine can dispense 245 servings of froyo before needing be refilled.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

The market for Chinese consumers in search of education and medical care in the United States and around the world is large – and growing. Chinese nationals took an estimated 500,000 outbound medical trips in 2016, a fivefold increase from the previous year. The brand is just phenomenal to be tied to.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

As it turns out, we as a nation have simply reached our limits with our own cooking. The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. marketing director, told the Huffington Post. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

citizens’ data or national security. Think of it as an extension of brand and payment types and technology, and to some minds it is a natural fit. For Vantiv there is value in going beyond the United States, boosting footprint and gaining scale. The forecast for this year calls for 14 percent growth.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

In the midst of unprecedented market volatility, recent deals and back-channel chatter illustrate that fintech demand remains high. I like this bank-acquiring-fintech deal (similar to City National Bank’s August acquisition of FilmTrack and 2018 acquisition of Exactuals). SoFi/Galileo: This $1.2 Moven Bank announced discontinued U.S.

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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. And Papa John’s has unveiled a national partnership with DoorDash , to let customers order delivery from over 1,400 of the pizza chain’s locations across the country.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

And, as it emerged that Amazon was planning to use Whole Foods stores as hubs for alcohol delivery, the market quaked – particularly for the legions of startups who’ve entered the space in a number of different ways. Only retailers can sell to customers and only distributors can buy from producers (except in the state of Washington).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The largest food brands in the world, along with heavyweight eCommerce operators, continue to expand their delivery options and seek deals with delivery providers in order to keep an edge in this area of retail. The deal also calls for Hema supermarkets in China to become the first retail brand to open “Starbucks Delivery Kitchens.”

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

According to the National Turkey Federation (which really does exist) roughly 85 percent of Americans plan to eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table until Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. The average turkey weighs 16 pounds and costs $22.03.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

Tim brings a unique perspective to treasury management services, having worked in industry, for solution providers and in consulting, helping commercial banks meet changing client expectations with new product and market strategies. And the cost of entry into the market is low for them. percent between 2017 and 2019, down from 5.1

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

It’s been a while since we’ve had a traditional bank launch a digital-first unit aimed at small businesses (SMB/SME). Actually, it’s only happened one time (in the United States) that I can recall. So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. rhymes with “jiffy” I presume).

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