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Embedded Finance: Bolstering Brand Experiences

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When a non-financial firm offers embedded banking, they offer a branded checking account to hold funds and make payments for the betterment of the company and its clients or workers. Firms such as eBay and Lyft, and many other online firms, have pursued this strategy and successfully expanded their core business.

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Toys R Us Sees A Future Online

PYMNTS

billion financing infusion from a group of lenders led by JPMorgan Chase, toy and game retailer Toys R Us is announcing new steps in its post-bankruptcy restructuring. 2) that Toys R Us has partnered with global marketplace solutions provider Mirakl to create a new online marketplace. One week after reporting a $3.1

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Walmart Debuts Online Private-Label Furniture Brand

PYMNTS

Walmart has released a new online-only furniture brand called MoDRN, the company said on Friday (Feb. Now, the company wants to focus more on what it calls a specialty shopping experience, aiming to grow a variety of trendy collections that can only be found online. That’s where MoDRN comes in.

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DTC Brands Spurn Amazon, Despite Perks

PYMNTS

Amazon has been heavily courting some direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands – inviting them to its headquarters , paying for dinner and letting them fill their carts with gear from Amazon Go shops. Brands also seem to dislike the general Amazon experience online, specifically how it is faceless and lacks customer service.

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Crafting An (Online) B2B Market For Retailers

PYMNTS

To that end, in Europe, Czech firm Nulisec has debuted an online B2B marketplace focused on European retailers — geared toward improving sales and procurement processes. In an interview with PYMNTS, CEO Lukas Pham said online marketplaces address several pain points. “At The digital shift may transform retail storefronts in Europe.

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Walgreens Partners With Alibaba To Offer Beauty Brands On Tmall Global

PYMNTS

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group Holding have announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global , Alibaba’s B2C platform for international brands and retailers. The partnership will offer Boots beauty brands to more than half a billion consumers in China, including No7, Soap & Glory and Boots Cucumber.

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Pandemic Accelerates Social Commerce; Gives Brands New Selling Option

PYMNTS

Through this year’s Levi’s Haus Miami activation, the brand partnered with TikTok influencers Callen Schaub , Cosette Rinab , Gabby Morrison and Everett Williams to create customized denim using Future Finish 3-D denim customization technology. TikTok was the perfect platform for us to expand our efforts in social commerce.

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