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JULY 1, 2020

We can only hope at this point for a gradual recovery,” LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault told investors on an online call Tuesday (June 30). That estimate comes from market intelligence company GlobalData, which predicts that total spending in the region will dip to $60.3 Could the online surge help luxury goods?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If brands want to get online, and you want to have something that looks bespoke, that’s typically going to mean paying a developer or paying an agency quite a bit of money. The reason retailers find it easy to use, and the company’s unique value proposition, is that it builds and optimizes online storefronts in a no-code environment.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With consumers increasingly turning to online ways of doing things amid the pandemic, Western Union saw its digital revenue jump 45 percent in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago. The growth also comes on the heels of a deal by Western Union to buy up to 15 percent of Saudi Digital Payments Co.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As social media platforms tinker with their algorithms, marketing experts say one trend is clear: Paid social campaigns are becoming increasingly necessary to cut through the noise and reach customers. Although posting organically is an authentic way to build customer relationships, it requires time and patience to reach marketing goals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The firm chose a Kenyan brand, Huddah Cosmetics , as the first social commerce merchant on its Mula service to roll out the platform. According to Cellulant, Huddah Cosmetics was an interesting brand to launch for the platform. In addition, the company said that her brand is well-known and capable of generating buzz.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors , a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. The company has teamed up with Regions Bank to provide the possibility of virtual loans to consumers in Texas, the South and the Midwest.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Online marketplace and auction site eBay is looking to unload its South Korean unit, according to a report by Reuters. The unit includes one of the biggest online marketplaces in the country, called Gmarket. eBay used to also own brands like PayPal and StubHub, but sold them when their directives differed from its own.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The website is a re-branding of Middle Eastern eCommerce site Souq.com , which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, PYMNTS reported. Last year, the company converted Souq’s website in the United Arab Emirates to an Amazon-branded one, amazon.ae. Bin Salman denied the claim, saying it was rogue operators who committed the crime.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Founded in 2016, Bootler is an online marketplace modeled on the likes of travel aggregators Kayak.com and Trivago: it lets consumers compare delivery fees, times and services used by different restaurants all in one online location, and in real time. Building A Brand. Listen to the full conversation in this week’s podcast.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Both luxury brands are competing in a declining market for handbag sales, and Kate Spade’s vibrant styles give Coach an edge in the race for younger consumers. There are also plans to expand Kate Spade in Asia, which may curb Michael Kors’s aggressive growth in the region. According to Bloomberg Pursuits , Coach Inc. ’s

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

The company has added Alexa to its Dash Wand product, making it smarter and more capable than ever – and strategically positioning itself to own the emerging online grocery market. “If As consumers continue to get more comfortable ordering food online, Amazon is positioning itself at the bleeding edge of that market shift.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

parts of the business in other regions are still active and purchase goods as well as pay royalties to Tru Kids. Now, the company is looking to restart the brand in places such as the U.S. He added that “a significant amount of market share has been left on the table.”. Australia and the U.K., Tru Kids Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In regard to big national banks, or even regional banks, he said, that rule makes some sense. The intention is to prevent a variation of digital red-lining — wherein FIs can use known data about certain ZIP codes and regions as a proxy for screening data they are explicitly not allowed to use to exclude certain types of borrowers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Lingering economic uncertainty and growing fraud rates in multiple markets are prompting consumers to sharpen their focus on privacy and security. Eighty-one percent of consumers in one recent study said that trusting brands was a major factor in determining whether they would interact with them, for example. and the EU.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Why should merchants be the only ones who get to leverage the speed, convenience and low-friction environment of the online marketplace? The big box retailer has been investing heavily in its online marketplace, and recently invited international vendors onto its platform. As it turns out, they aren’t.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain merchants to sell across their platforms. The All India Online Vendors Association represents more than 3,500 businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Brands have responded avidly. Leading the pack have been luxury brands — given that, as of early 2020, Chinese shoppers accounted for 35 percent of global luxury goods sales, and 90 percent of last year’s growth in the market, according to data from Bain & Co.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Southeast Asia’s GrabFood is the latest food delivery service to launch a ghost kitchen accommodating several restaurant brands, turning up the heat on competition, DealStreetAsia reported Tuesday (Jan. The GrabKitchen platform gives restaurant partners an opportunity to introduce different food concepts and new brands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Abercrombie & Fitch, the embattled teen clothing retailer, has struck a deal with a German online retailer to make its clothes available online in 15 European markets. “Zalando is a key strategic partner as we continue to expand our brand reach and deliver a great brand experience to customers in these markets.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Cross-border online commerce — awash with opportunities to claim new customers and, of course, grow top lines — should quicken the collective pulse of U.S. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. Villegas noted that in markets beyond the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic — which has forced all of us online — is exposing just who in financial services has embraced digitization, and who is truly digital native. We now must bank entirely online, by necessity. And many of us must transact entirely online, by necessity, to get the goods and services we need on a daily basis.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Walmart is keen to get a strong brand backing its eCommerce business, while Tata Group wants a global name and an established player in the online space,” a source told Mint. Chandrasekaran said the app would be a huge opportunity for the company. . On Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Called sMALL Surprises , the curated box of goods from several of PREIT’s mall properties is a nod to subscription-based boxes, as well as one of the first examples of a REIT acting as an online vendor. Twenty-eight percent of PREIT’s portfolio consists of local and regional tenants.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

It may no longer be the case that cash is king on a global stage but, in some markets (particularly developing markets, like India), it’s still doing quite well — as consumers are spending trillions of dollars’ worth of it a year. trillion : Consumer cash spend in the Asia-Pacific Region in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

The case against them, and the decision it rendered, deviated sharply from the traditional Sherman Act cases that accused companies of using their market power to raise prices to the detriment of the consumer. By 2009, A&P had shrunk in size and became a modestly sized regional chain. By 2015, it had closed its doors.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Payment processors expanding their operations into new industries and markets have their work cut out for them, however. These concerns are a focus for Global Payments, a worldwide payments processor that includes eCommerce payment processing brands eWay and Ezidebit in Australia and New Zealand. Attuning To New Markets .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

European challenger banks like Monzo and N26 are expanding to new markets and an increasing number of other financial players are launching suites of products and services designed to entice customers away from their traditional financial institutions (FIs). For more on these stories, visit the Tracker’s News and Trends.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Walmart is energizing its Jet.com engines to power the online eCommerce site that it acquired two years ago. MoffettNathanson Retail Analyst Greg Melich told CNN Money that, along with selling brands like Nike on its site, “having … tighter delivery windows, including same day, is a logical way to take on Amazon’s Prime Now.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The company, which operates its own eCommerce marketplace, has built its own supply chain, according to reports, and has recently expanded into the Mumbai and Pune regions, with perishables delivered the same day. Separately, RentoMojo, an online appliance and furniture rental platform, reported a Series C funding round worth as much as $3.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

But a new eCommerce platform coming out of the Alibaba Group in Southeast Asia is bringing a unique business model to malls in that region, one that could provide a blueprint for struggling U.S. The platform to bring malls online — or create a virtual mall — is being led by an Alibaba-owned company called Lazada. shopping destinations.

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The Financial Brand

JANUARY 24, 2023

This article How Banks and Credit Unions Make Pricey Super Bowl Advertising Pay Off appeared first on The Financial Brand. In using the Super Bowl as a marketing platform, banks and credit unions favor regional and online ads — with good reason.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

As the retail sector continues to undergo restructuring, a number of retail real estate markets face more vacancies and falling rents. On the regional front, Reis said the vacancy rate at regional malls increased 0.3 An increase in vacancy rates year over year is expected to continue. “As percent to 9.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Wholesale clubs and Trader Joe’s themselves have proven there is a huge market for brands that don’t check all of the boxes for a standard supermarket trip. We're proud of the product mix and shopping experience we provide in our stores and online. The Placer report, which examines transactions for the seven top U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Woowa, which is based in Seoul, is the biggest online food delivery service in South Korea. The firm does business with the Baedal Minjok brand name and has fulfilled 365 million orders in the year that ended with September and counts over 8 million monthly active users. Investors put $8.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

Go-Jek’s Go-Pay is Indonesia’s market leader in mobile on-demand services and payments platform and wants to accelerate services across the 640 million underserved and unbanked consumers of Southeast Asia. Together with Visa, we will have the unique opportunity to provide greater access to cashless payments across the region.”

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