PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2018

In terms of regions, Mexico saw the most toy industry growth at 15 percent for the first half of the year. Brazil and the United States closely followed, with 11 percent and 7 percent growth respectively. And brands have helped to fuel that strong growth. Growth in the United States.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

“The inclusion of products from various mall tenants in the program will create a new stream of sales and customers for stores, as well as drive awareness and brand recognition,” said PREIT in a statement. Twenty-eight percent of PREIT’s portfolio consists of local and regional tenants.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As coronavirus cases surge in the United States, some supermarket retailers are re-instituting buying restrictions on specific products such as toilet paper, USA Today reported. H-E-B, for its part, supervises over 400 retail locations, primarily in Texas. Pennsylvania-based The Giant Co.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

In multiple large metropolitan areas of the United States, market share data indicates that Kroger is gaining traction. The grocer operates Kroger stores along with regional brands such as Fry’s, King Soopers and Harris Teeter, Cincinnati.com reported. billion in grocery sales last year in the region.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

British challenger bank Monzo is among those moving into new product segments following its recent launch into the United States, announcing a partnership with AXA partners to provide travel insurance to its users. Banks both new and old are looking to launch additional products aimed at keeping customers away from their competition.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

“Amazon is also one of the most trusted brands in the industry.” The company also allows for 70 different currencies from regions around the globe, including Brunei, Aruba, Hong Kong, Haiti and others. In Asia, the practice is much more common, with many users of Alipay and WeChat Pay.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Going a bit further, the United States saw 10 percent growth to $466 billion, outpaced by the rest of the world at 16 percent to just over $1 trillion. Within the United States, he said, spending and growth have held up “reasonably well” amid low unemployment and “still healthy” consumer confidence. The company had 2.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

The enhanced functionality — including contactless payments for Android users in the United States — integrates payments and new services, such as paying with points and purchase alerts. In terms of the global rollout, the United States will be the first market, followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa by the end of this year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Together, Visa and Razer FinTech have the opportunity to transform the payments experience for not only the gaming community, but many of Southeast Asia’s unbanked and underserved consumers as well,” said Chris Clark, Visa’s regional president for Asia Pacific.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

9) that it will stop selling eCigarette components in the United States, Reuters reports. The incidences of injuries and deaths have, the newswire said, been linked to what are being termed “makeshift brands” other than the dominant market player, Juul Labs. Reuters reported the reports of the lung illnesses top 1,000 cases.

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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 billion annual impressions through more than 18,000 locations in all 50 states by year’s end. “We National and regional marketers across all industry sectors now have a way to reach valuable, attentive consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The United States has over 60 percent of the world’s cryptocurrency ATMs, followed by Canada with 12.4 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 In other news, it was announced that the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

We’ve seen consolidation within verticals, with software platforms coming together to create brands within, say, health and fitness, while maintaining the individual brand of the SaaS platform itself,” he told PYMNTS. We’re also seeing it for government platforms at the federal, state and municipal levels.”.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Visa said it is expanding its partnership with London-based FinTech Revolut to include five new regions reaching 24 markets — bringing Revolut’s total global footprint to 56 markets. As part of the newly expanded partnership, Revolut will primarily issue Visa-branded cards in the global expansion. So today (Sept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Outside the southeastern United States, Publix is neither a household name, nor an everyday experience. A highly regional grocery store chain, it’s only known in the six states where it actually operates. It’s not a new brand experience — Publix offers GreenWise produce, meats and non-food items, like tissues.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In some ways, Belk department store is the last of a dying breed — and not just because it is a department store in the United States in the year 2017. Small and regional — outside of the Southeastern United States, most people haven’t heard of it. Most brands can’t do exactly what Belk has done.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Drilling down into the gross dollar volumes, the company said United States volume was up 8 percent to $451 billion, outpaced by international growth, which was up 13 percent to $1 trillion. Brazil in particular is converting 7 million private cards to Mastercard contactless co-branded cards. trillion transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The final phase is in regards to the Asia Pacific region. NEW DATA: The Six Reasons Why More Consumers Are Buying Directly From Brands. Walmart has arrived at a partnership with Instacart to provide same-day delivery throughout a couple of select markets in the United States geared toward four pilots in California and Oklahoma.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

Details were scarce about the company’s new offerings, or how it views this particular brand of travel-industry disruption. He said POS financing will not displace other forms of payment, but should lead to accelerated activity in the coming years across corridors, such as Central and South America, the United States and Canada.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

-based merchants sell across borders, but that percentage lags behind other nations such as Germany and the United Kingdom, where half of merchants that sell goods and services online do so across borders. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Think of it as an extension of brand and payment types and technology, and to some minds it is a natural fit. For Vantiv there is value in going beyond the United States, boosting footprint and gaining scale. attention on Europe, with the desire to gain a post, or perhaps outpost, in payments processing in the region.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

as well as Canada, is looking to shutter 250 stores at a minimum in the United States. With the store closings, which are said to involve its Chico’s, Soma and White House Black Market brands, the company hopes to benefit from lease expirations as well as return on capital and better profitability.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Keep a lid on the casket talk. Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S., percent over that time frame.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Interest rates are going negative in at least some regions in Europe. And of course, the global economy is slowing … and you might have heard that a trade war between the United States and China remains as a headwind to growth. Tapestry owns brands like Kate Spade and management has termed the current environment challenging.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

To that end, the platform has tens of thousands of campgrounds listed on its platform through the United States, with a combination of federal campgrounds, state parks, national parks, BLM land, private campgrounds and private landowners. The more content there is on a site, then, the more people on can help.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The conversation came across a backdrop of more than 50 real-time payment systems currently live around the world, although largely domestic and regional in nature. In the United States alone, for example, The Clearing House’s RTP network serves 70 percent of all DDAs. Awareness of those differences is key.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Charles Jarrett, vice president and CIO of Cumberland Farms (a convenience store chain with some 600 locations in eight states), recently discussed the future of that type of retail with Karen Webster, and gave an update on how the company’s redesigned SmartPay mobile app is helping lead that transformation for the regional chain.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Until you can figure out how to be at least a regional or a better national player, you’ll always be nipping at the edges, but never really getting to scale,” Simon said, adding that Drizly has built a brand and a platform that complies with the three-tier system and can actually reach everyone in the country.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

But Thrive Market, which ships organic groceries to consumers anywhere in the continental United States, is growing. Thrive gets to their low price point by purchasing their goods from brands directly. Brands currently found on the platform include Zico, Yogi and Thrive’s own branded products.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

By offering QR-based digital payments, smaller retailers can achieve these goals and create greater customer stickiness with little to no investment beyond the phone they already have,” said Jorn Lambert, EVP, Digital Channels and Regions, Mastercard. And DICK’S wasn’t the only big brand looking to change its role in this story.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

Firms must be mindful of the specific fraud activities they encounter, such as across business types, channels, regions or even transaction sizes. If an individual experiences a fraud incident, it can fragment or destroy that brand loyalty that was in place.”. In other words, a cookie cutter approach won’t suffice.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

It’s been a while since we’ve had a traditional bank launch a digital-first unit aimed at small businesses (SMB/SME). Actually, it’s only happened one time (in the United States) that I can recall. So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. Also, wondering how it’s pronounced?

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JULY 31, 2017

After all, service industries make up more than three-quarters of the United States’ total GDP — and four out of five jobs. On top of that, many of these service marketplaces are highly regionalized and/or specialized, and many are relatively young startups.

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MyBankTracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you are looking for any type of personal insurance and already have a AAA membership, The California State Automobile Association (CSAA) could be the AAA-affiliated insurer that services your region. In 2018, AAA, underwritten by CSAA Insurance Group, was named the highest-ranked auto insurance brand in the Southwest from the J.D.

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