PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. The payments ecosystem, of course, is not and will not be immune to the seismic impact and aftershocks of the coronavirus. According to J.P.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It’s the end of the workweek, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. operations. Top News

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APRIL 24, 2017

On the slightly more serious side of the payments news this week, BJ’s Wholesale Club looks like it’s going up for sale — and the rumor of the week is that Amazon is thinking about buying it. The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. these days.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The new funding is an outcropping of the Series G round unveiled in August for the firm, which is said to have helped millennials become interested in trading. FIS, TCH Partner To Connect Small Banks, CUs To RTP. Mastercard Expands Digital Card Program To Include Instant Access, eWallet.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. The location, which stocks products ranging from craft beers to handmade tortillas – has technology that lets shoppers use their phones for payments. The company already had operated an innovation facility in Japan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Payment processing was good to financial transaction provider WEX in 2019, as the company reported double-digit growth for the year in its earnings report today. While the company is known for its payment solutions aimed at fuel for fleet services, it also has grown its corporate card and U.S. billion from $8.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

CEO of Afterpay , recently told Karen Webster that consumers — particularly millennials and Generation Z — were already showing distinct preferences for digital commerce and paying with debit cards rather than credit cards. And it really depends on their target demographic and where they operate.”. Nick Molnar , co-founder and U.S.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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Still, other banks will think nothing of raising the rates on their certificates of deposits, likely their least profitable product, while not investing in payments or treasury management, two of the most profitable products a bank can own. These banks pay people and marketing agencies to bring them unprofitable customers.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. Source: The Millennial Disruption Index.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

ModCloth offers exclusive indie and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35-year-old women, while Go Global Retail is a brand investment platform for strategic investors in the consumer sector. Walmart acquired the assets and operations of ModCloth in March 2017 for an undisclosed amount.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. That seismic change may not be felt in payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

Retailers trying to bridge the growing gap between the shopping trends of Baby Boomers, Generation Z and every demographic in between may think they have the different generations figured out, but in some cases, operating on assumptions can lead to missed sales. Millennials. million people in the U.S., Generation Z.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Not liking basketball is no reason not to get in on the fun, and so, we made you our own little payments and commerce mini-bracket, a “Final Four” for anyone who would rather follow the price of bitcoin than the progress of Duke through the tournament. Boomers vs. Millennials vs. Scammers . Productivity vs. The NCAA Tournament .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customers picked out the goods they wanted and placed a down payment on them so that the store would hold them for a set amount of time. but after almost 50 years, it began to fade out in the 80s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. After its birth in the 1930s, layaway had a long run in the U.S.,

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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. The company has recently seen positive momentum and improved operating performance, and delivery is projected to accelerate future growth. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For its three years in operation, Brandless generated no shortage of buzz with its concept of “private label for less” and the idea that the best brand is no brand at all. Under his leadership, the plan for the brand was to pivot into higher-margin, bigger ticket products such as CBD oil and move Brandless onto store shelves.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand. They use the Bradesco infrastructure, but they operate in parallel. Payment methods. Revamping the company’s internal structure is one of the first steps Bradesco took to achieve the goal of creating experiences that meet expectations of millennials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Second, the speed and widening functionality of payment apps developed by those merchants are vital to that transition, no matter how retro is might seem upon first glance. And those improvements are attracting millennial and Generation X consumers. They want to co-brand with you, embed our offer within their offer,” he told Webster.

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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 The companies pointed to third-party research that has shown that campaigns on the GSTV platform deliver ROI for global brands.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

When cleancult Co-Founder Ryan Lupberger looked at other brands of cleaning products, he noted that the same problems always appeared to arise even with better-for-the-world offerings. At the same time, he said, “no brand has come at this from an online perspective” through new branding and distribution online.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

While apps are used for gas station payments by only 4.5 And some of those efforts have involved connected cars: General Motors , Shell and mobile payments provider P97, for instance, rolled out a way for consumers to find and pay for fuel through in-car technology earlier this year. You just have to set it up once.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Particularly among younger consumers, the millennial and Gen Z “digital natives,” who, by the numbers, show a much greater affection for the physical store than their boomer parents and Gen X older siblings do. What Every Brand Needs For An Omnichannel Experience. So why aren’t digital natives shopping digitally?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Can the biggest banks in the United States catch up to the millennial-beloved Venmo with their own P2P payments app? If it sounds a bit familiar, it is probably that the service has been operating for several years under the name clearXchange. Why choose Zelle for a name — other than the obvious Zelle-on-Earth puns?

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Cash remains a preferred method of payments, and, as noted in Webster’s own discussions with payments executives, sometimes it is the only way people can pay. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., percent over that time frame.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. The PYMNTS conversation with Geeslin came amid new emerging challenges for FIs – especially smaller ones – as they go about improving their card programs and looking to the future via payment cards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. But those sorts of projections almost certainly don’t reflect the reality of shopping and payments 20 years from today.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. The two-sided marketplace operates in 200 locations across the U.S. Payments are processed via Stripe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

These are just a few of the ways that digital marketplaces are making these connections with digital payments and commerce, in an age when consumers are looking for more choices when it comes to their shopping experiences: One-hundred and sixty-two U.S. Mallzee created a digital mall where consumers can compare many different retail brands.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

Vending machines, increasingly, are ditching the dollar bills in favor of payments rendered in bits and bytes. To that end, Will Byrne, CEO of WorldNet Payments, took note of the 7 percent rise in value per transaction for the vending machines that have gone cashless. Kiosks are increasingly becoming part of the retail landscape.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. Korean consumers see no evil in mobile payments. The statistics get even better as the daily average number of mobile payments increased almost 83 percent to 810,000.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

startup that operates an app where individuals sell items on social feeds, has raised $62 million in venture funding. Additional investors included HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Balderton Capital, Creandum, Octopus Ventures, TempoCap and Sebastian Siemiatkowski, founder and CEO of Klarna, the Swedish payments company. Depop, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

16), an effort involving Shell , General Motors and mobile payments provider P97 that enables consumers to find and pay for fuel via embedded in-dash technology inside their vehicles. As for the fuel payments feature, “it’s like setting up an Uber account for the first time,” he said. Frieden said that 2.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. In the U.S. trillion and $1.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. Any merchant that accepts Mastercard payments can accept the Venmo cards. million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Contactless payments look strong — if you live in the U.K. — Contactless payments: Paying without touching is taking off. The rise in contactless payments has some additional data points in place to bolster claims that paying via mobile device is catching on, as promise transforms into practice. billion pounds.

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