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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

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. based online merchants shift their focus outward from domestic shores.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

On the regional front, Reis said the vacancy rate at regional malls increased 0.3 Sears , which started out in the 1880s as a mail-order catalog and then morphed into one of the nation’s biggest department store chains, has been felled by eCommerce and physical retailers. percent to 9.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

Turns out the online and mobile food ordering business has some hefty tailwinds in place. The company announced the acquisition of LevelUp , which should expedite integration with restaurants and “create a seamless diner experience in-app, online and in-store,” said the 423,000 daily average grubs, up 35 percent year over year.

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JULY 24, 2020

The company had launched an online marketplace for 34 countries in the region last year and recently acquired a minority stake in the eCommerce solutions provider with which it collaborated on the effort. Visa is also putting focus on consumers in Africa.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Amazon has been working hard to boost its presence in the region. In addition, Amazon is also said to be heavily recruiting Grupo Boticário and Natura Cosmeticos — two rising brands in Brazilian beauty — to sell via its Brazil platform. The only nations that see more beauty sales are the U.S., China and Japan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, 95 percent of transactions in in India were done in cash and there were approximately 60 million online shoppers – representing about 14 percent of the internet using base of the nation, according to a late 2017 report by Morgan Stanley. The Powerful Punch Private Labels Pack In India.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s s National Crime Agency (NCA), have arrested 6 individuals after a 14-month long investigation into a €24 million cryptocurrency theft. In other news, it was announced that the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

“In the months ahead, we will continue to launch new partnerships with different products and price points to further broaden our geographic reach, introduce the Blue Apron brand to new consumer segments and expand our total addressable market,” Dickerson said. “In The company will sell them under the “WW Healthy Kitchen” brand name.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

When a consumer places an order by voice, it comes through the same ordering channel that an online or mobile order would. The employee or wait staff wouldn’t know the difference between a voice or an online order. The company is targeting both regional and national businesses with a minimum of 10 locations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And that’s what she essentially ended up helping to create — an online resource for discovering, researching and booking campgrounds with over 300,000 media assets. They then become ranked on leaderboards split into regions (Mid-Atlantic, California and Hawaii and the Midwest). The Booking Experience.

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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. attention on Europe, with the desire to gain a post, or perhaps outpost, in payments processing in the region. company interested in Adyen. The dominant countries here are the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

By comparison, 2019 saw 9,200 stores closed as brands like Payless ShoeSource, Fred’s, Gymboree, Charlotte Russe, Family Dollar, Forever 21 , Charming Charlie, Sears, Kmart, A.C. The emergent form of coronavirus that originated in China’s Wuhan region continues to spread and pick up fatalities. So what did we learn this week?

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With megabanks spending billions on digital investments each year, regional and community bank executives understand they cannot compete on resources. Instead, these players are focusing on specific niches, brand strategies and community connections to differentiate themselves. Keep it simple with the number and phrasing of questions.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Regional and mid-tier banks face an uphill battle on the digital front, but have advantages they can capitalize on with some focus and determination. Alarm bells are sounding in boardrooms of regional and mid-tier banks across the U.S. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, said the J.D. Or at least they should be.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The good news, said Carter, fresh off her most recent trip to the National Retail Federation (NRF), is that merchants and are very well aware that retail — and the role of physical retail in it — is changing. There is a firm idea that brick and mortar is changing, not going away. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Looking at the geographic concentration of activity, the US was the most active region, with 47 percent of activity, followed by China at 41 percent. Consumers no longer want to just be transacted with—consumers want to be in relationships with the retailers and brands that know them well.”. They’re now circling your brand.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

There’s little doubt that the [spirits] industry will feel the impact of the largest online retailer expanding into grocery,” Coors wrote in a blog post following the news announcement of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. And, it return, the brands get a much clearer, unmediated picture of who is buying their product. Or an anything.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

And ticketing technology for public transportation is arriving on mobile, too: Cubic Transportation Systems recently notched a contract from the National Transport Authority for a mobile ticketing system in Ireland. With Carvana ’s vending machines, shoppers who make a purchase online arrive at the company’s car lot.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As every other kind of commerce moves online, food and grocery have likewise been migrating in a digital direction – and why not? Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week?

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Financial institutions are always looking for new ways to attract customers and give the best look and feel to their brand. We also refresh our overall marketing tactics from time to time and felt it was great to present a ubiquitous design experience in our online and offline marketing efforts. What makes Banner Bank unique?

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

In the stock market, sometimes sizzlers keep sizzling, especially when online sales are in the offing. Hacking, Hacking Everywhere : The venerable Samsung brand may be under attack. to link their Samsung Pay account with their Visa Checkout account for online shopping. The lesson here?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

No dream, this: Alipay is expanding its efforts and footprint in North America to capture discretionary spending as Chinese tourists flock to the region for culture and entertainment … and spend on everything from food to handbags. Badran said: “At some point, we’ll be able to bring those to the U.S. as well.”. “If

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Instead, Farmstead works through the same supply lines that local restaurants do when they are sourcing their perishable goods (and with national and local brands for non-perishables), hence they skew incredibly local, and are able to deliver extremely fresh food to their customers’ doors. And they deliver that food very fast.

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San Francisco Regional Innovation US 109

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. Smart, albeit expensive, for a regional bank to create a national digital brand. If the business account takes off, it will be interesting to see what other products are introduced under the Zifi brand. Also, wondering how it’s pronounced?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

This solution will make it easier for receivers in those markets to receive and use funds instantly (via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card), and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds. In December of 2017, Even went live and online for 1.4 million Walmart employees.

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

When we’re online, we can go anywhere, and surely do. These digital-heavy, mobile-savvy youngsters feel free to eschew brand loyalty and shop around for options on a whim, and the constant emergence of new technologies supports fickle habits. Some online-only startup, with operations based overseas? So where are they going?

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

West Partners provided the funding and, in a statement, president Dennis O’Brien pointed to the firm’s ability for “long-term growth and success” in its efforts to help banks offer online and mobile banking services. Businesses feed their data streams into Compass and, in exchange, get access to that database.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2017

Delhi and its surrounding NCR (National Capital Region) area came in a close second, at 29% each. The country’s most well-funded startups are mostly concentrated in the Delhi region and Bengaluru, in keeping with overall deal distribution. Delhi/NCR is home to 7 unicorns (the most of any other region). in total.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The current online market has no single leader and is split up between Walmart ’s Flipkart , Amazon.in While national statistics for India are still very low, Gorthy said the typical Petpal customer is likely to work for a multinational company and be very digitally connected and savvy. “I and the 10-year-old PetsWorld platform.

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Online Industry Retail Capital 177

Jeff For Banks

APRIL 23, 2017

Jeff Bank A: To our shareholders, Since our inception, we have used the word ‘‘Absolutely’’ as a part of our brand. In our SBA business, we added a team with a national market focus and completed major improvements to our operating processes that will significantly improve productivity and efficiency. Do these banks sound alike?

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US Regional Marketing Branding 66

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

So what fun in the sun can the nation’s retailers expect this year? Also, summer is the best time to meet and greet international travelers and introduce them to your brand, because about a quarter of the tourists traveling in the United States this summer will be from abroad. 2016 likely has a few custom curveballs to throw.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The stores will still stay open, but amid same store sales declines of more than four percent year over year, price matching with Amazon and revamping its online ops will likely be a tough row to hoe (recall that the company ended an exclusive arrangement to be Amazon’s toy vendor of choice back in 2004). Fizzle Of The Week: Startups.

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