PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

For retailers, especially those deemed non-essential and struggling with revenue, branding may be on the back burner right now. Big mistake, say several branding experts. And who you were was your brand. “A Your brand attributes are the ones you fall back on when you have to make difficult decisions. “A

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

Along with taking food orders from various eateries, mobile order aggregators are taking something else — flak — over commissions and fees that run as high as 30 percent of order value. Important trends like the aggravation with aggregators are defined in the March 2020 Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker ®, a Kount collaboration.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Nigeria has latched on to the cryptocurrency trend, boasting 35 million unbanked adults who possess mobile phones, the vast majority being women. Babalola said Binance intends to open up a fiat on-ramp on the mobile app, too. This is in addition to charges of bank fraud, an unlicensed money transfer operation and conspiracy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Mobile food ordering has quickly gone from niche activity to mainstream. Between 2016 and 2018, the volume of orders placed through mobile apps grew by 130 percent, according to PYMNTS’ Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. Mobile represents roughly 60 percent of all digital restaurant orders today. Yum Brands! In fact, 91.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Meteoric mobile order-ahead (MOA) growth continues to be a dominant trend coming out of the COVID era, and while it’s still fun, mobile food needs to keep evolving to stay fresh. Moreover, restaurant operators are more able to keep engagement high and loyalty locked in with smarter point-of-sale (POS) options.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Snap , the maker of the disappearing messaging app Snapchat, is rolling out new tools to enable select accounts to operate a store within Snapchat. DigiDay , citing a Snap spokesperson, reported that Snapchat users will be able to access the Shopify-powered stores by visiting the account page of a brand.

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

The expanded executive leadership team will drive continued growth and operational excellence across Perficient while delivering superior solutions for clients. “As Kline, AVP of custom development and mobile solutions, will now lead a centralized practice developing custom product, software, application, and mobile solutions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Overstock has unveiled 17 exclusive private label furniture brands, featuring more than 16,000 furniture and home décor products. Brands, introduced through the new selection, include The Gray Barn, Carson Carrington Home, and Laurel Creek. According to Retail Dive , the announcement comes as Overstock is looking for a buyer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Brands might want a space to test new concepts with shoppers in brick-and-mortar retail environments, but they don’t always want the time and expense involved in building out a permanent store. It also comes with a bit of staffing twist, as Macy’s own team members will service the brands per a February The Market@Macys report.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Maybe it’s the reputation of a brand that lowers the mental resistance to inputting payment and personal details on a mobile device to complete a transaction. Consumers, too, play a role in the wider mobile banking security picture. Trust Advantage. They might want to innovate, but take shortcuts on security.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are taking note of the potential of mobile ordering , as consumers can have their favorite foods delivered with a tap of an app. 300: Minimum number of brands enabled by personalization platform operator Dynamic Yield. All this, Today in Data. All this, Today in Data. 16: Number of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In the mobile order-ahead space, consumers are not getting what they ordered – and that doesn’t mean burgers or salads. What consumers really want from mobile ordering is … more mobile ordering. A growing number of chains and eateries are deemphasizing their physical dining spaces due to the mobile order-ahead sea change.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 26, 2018

Nymbus, a startup taking on what is arguably banking’s biggest problem — aging, outdated cores — announced a new product today called SmartLaunch, which “enables financial institutions to stand up a turnkey digital brand under their existing charter in as few as 90 days.” ” This is an interesting move from Nymbus.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Into the confusion drops PYMNTS’ December 2020 Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker® done in collaboration with Kount. As the new Tracker states, “eateries are turning to online and mobile ordering as well as delivery to stay afloat, with online order volume from food chains spiking by 225 percent since the pandemic began. More than 46.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The world needs a FinTech operating system.”. Oyster, he added, can leverage the cultural mistrust of traditional banks in Mexico with the general trust that country’s citizenry places in foreign brands (Starbucks, he said by way of example, is ubiquitous and beloved in Mexico). Widening Debit’s Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Mobile order-ahead has become ubiquitous for quick-service restaurants (QSRs). This emphasis on mobile order-ahead didn’t come out of left field, according to Domino’s VP of Global eCommerce and Digital Marketing Christopher Thomas-Moore. Leading the Mobile Ordering Charge .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But that national network of body-sculpting palaces is in disarray today, with major chains including Gold’s Gym and 24-Hour Fitness filing for Chapter 11 relief due to the coronavirus pandemic, along with a slew of other operators from privately owned yoga studios to fitness centers. Peloton’s stock price doubled on that news.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For instance, Dine Brands , the parent company of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar and IHOP restaurants, is teaming with Postmates to offer delivery from thousands of locations, according to an announcement. Dine Brands is not the only restaurant company to team with Postmates. restaurants. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Brands beat Wall Street’s expectations when its earnings were released Wednesday, as an assortment of new menu offerings were successful in drawing more foot traffic into its Taco Bell and KFC locations this quarter. Brands’ efforts at expanding its digital offerings (like mobile order-ahead) and delivery options in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and others in the food service space are rapidly adjusting their operations during the pandemic, with many implementing new technologies online and in-store to ensure customers can seamlessly and safely place orders. Mobile Order-Ahead Developments Around The World.

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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. How N26 Is Using Cloud Core Banking for Nimble Mobile Innovation. Developments Around the Cloud Banking World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Food delivery is fundamentally changing restaurants’ businesses as delivery eliminates the face-to-face connection between brands and their customers and erodes margins. We offer food brands a full stack of hardware, software, and packaging solutions to allow companies to grow in an on-demand system,” he explained.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In the early days of the Internet, brands and businesses knew they wanted to get online, but they just weren’t quite sure why, or how best to do it. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

That famous literary opener could apply to the mobile order-ahead (MOA) space in 2019. DoorDash and Grubhub also got deliveries — in the form of municipal lawsuits over tipping, billing and compensation practices common to MOA brands. As mobile takes fast food by storm, QSRs find themselves gagging on friendly (and unfriendly) fraud.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Nigeria's Challenger Bank Kuda Raises $10M For Its Mobile-First Services. Kuda, which is based in Nigeria and runs a mobile-first challenger bank, now has $10 million following a funding round that was reported to be the largest see round ever raised in Africa.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

For Big Tech, India beckons — increasingly so, and it is the mobile space that seemingly is poised to get a lot more crowded. News came over the past few days that Amazon may look to buy (not build) a presence in India’s mobile industry, through a reported $2 billion stake in Bharti Airtel, which is the third largest operator there.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As consumers can have their favorite foods delivered to them with a tap of an app, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are taking note of mobile ordering’s potential. And Wingstop has also worked to grow the availability of its mobile ordering service to offer the options at 90 percent of physical locations by the close of 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

These shifts have pushed drive-thru restaurant chain Checkers and Rally’s to work toward leveraging a mobile app-enabled loyalty program, said Josh Buchmann , senior director of eCommerce and guest engagement for the company. Many use their mobile devices to look up recipes, play games, send emails, shop and order meals.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive examines loyalty programs’ significance for retaining members, generating customer referrals, adding cost efficiency and enabling user-generated content, such as ratings, that can help boost brand awareness. The Member-CU Loyalty Disconnect . percent from CUs with no loyalty innovation track record. Likewise, 33.3

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Many restaurants, for instance, have discovered that frictionless mobile ordering experiences are essential when it comes to keeping customers satisfied. From Panera Bread to Postmates , restaurant chains and the third-party delivery platforms that work with them are enabling mobile commerce for delivery orders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

John Culver, Starbucks president of international channel development and global coffee & tea , noted on the call with investors that, with nearly two decades of successful and growing operations under its belt, Starbucks is confident it can “navigate any fluctuation that may take place” in the Chinese market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. Yum operates the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC chains, and the company’s fourth-quarter results, released Thursday (Feb. Delivery, kiosks and other digital efforts are taking more prominent roles at Yum! percent, to nearly $1.56

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

4 telecom companies, T-Mobile and Sprint, according to a report by Bloomberg. . billion, and the DoJ approval is more likely now that T-mobile and Sprint have established outlines for how they’re going to sell assets to Dish Network to help it become a competitor. T-Mobile saw a smaller bump of less than 1 percent. .

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Adyen operates in more countries and currencies than competitor Stripe, and serves large, international operations, while Stripe works with startups and developers. What do they have in common? In terms of payments, they all use the services of Adyen, the Amsterdam-based payments giant. Adyen’s Read More.

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