PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

PepsiCo turned some heads with its quarterly earnings call announcement that it would take some of its tax reform windfall and reinvest it in improving the firm’s eCommerce efforts. And the numbers in this regard don’t lie: Physical retail is growing at a rate of about 3.6 According to PepsiCo CEO Indra K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Amazon’s B2B Biz : Amazon is everywhere — and while retail is the name of the game, B2B is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, Amazon’s B2B is growing faster than retail, as Amazon Business is on track to hit $10 billion in sales this year, just four years after launch — it took the unit only one year to reach $1 billion in sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The bill seems part and parcel of a strategy that seeks to bring at least some forum for smaller firms to voice complaints, and perhaps even give regulators some power to shape the ways in which eCommerce giants interact with local players. That’s due in part to a sales tax boost that now has been hurting consumer spending.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

With the focus on making cross-border commerce as fluid and intuitive for consumers as it can be for the retailers themselves, it can be more than a little jarring to be reminded that actual borders exist underneath it all. Like the retail economy that rests on it, potential geopolitical instability is a global problem. percent tax.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

But reaching a broader range of consumers, accommodating their payment preferences, and satisfying regulatory and tax issues in unfamiliar territory introduces a host of new operational challenges for these companies. COVID has put pressure on brands to find solutions for their direct-to-consumer [D2C] strategy,” he said.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

In fact, they have favored brands, with iTunes and Google Play cards popular favorites. They may pretend to be the IRS and tell people they cannot use other payment methods because of their delinquent tax status,” according to the FTC. The official white flag comes after years of attempted restructuring of the once iconic brand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The Competition Commission of India claimed that the exclusive deals between mobile phone brands and online shopping platforms in addition to allegations of eCommerce firms providing better treatment to specific sellers “merits an investigation.” million in 36 hours for the premium smartphone brands category.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. Other ideas include more government action regarding competitive regulation. She believes lockdown orders created a loophole that allowed large chains that offer essential retail to continue selling non-essential goods like toys and electronics.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

I recently interviewed Gary Johnson, a delivery director at Perficient who has worked with various automotive brands. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. What about the tax incentives and credits? In our conversation, Gary shared how the automotive industry is faring during the pandemic.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We all know the lure of China’s consumers for retailers and merchants of all stripes and sizes operating across the globe. Enter PingPong Global , which makes it easier for SMBs, manufacturers and global brands to collect cross-border payments from customers across eCommerce marketplaces as ubiquitous as Amazon, Wish and NewEgg.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S. Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. The tax, technically known as “Tax Deducted at Source” (TDS), is sent directly to an account held by the central government.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

We automate complex payment and tax regulations in over 180 countries and offer a variety of payment checkout options,” said Smoter. but their overall market share for online is not huge — western EU represents only 18 percent of of online retail. the Czech Republic and Poland. But, Smoter said, this is still just the beginning.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The FTC said it brought forward “its first case challenging a marketer’s use of fake paid reviews on an independent retail website.”. Fake product reviews on Amazon and other retail platforms are not the only recent issue at play when it comes to this area of eCommerce. The case involves “Cure Encapsulations, Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

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APRIL 16, 2018

On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase. About every seven or so minutes, there was a commercial break in which ads were inserted with the same ambition — build a brand and drive a buy. And not, it seems, to enable commerce. trillion searches a year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. Anyone in a regulated industry — and that’s just about all of them — are also plenty dubious about using cryptocurrencies as the processing rails for supporting those pilots and incorporating them into their longer-term plans should their pilots show promise. And to learn.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

If they can get it under control quickly, it will even then have an impact on GDP and the hundreds of brands that are in the Wuhan region. This is not the same as eCommerce putting pressure on traditional retail because banking is a very different animal obviously.”. It depends a little on how this plays out.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Take the clothing and accessories brand TOMS , for instance. Bext360 is a fair-trade coffee supplier for retail coffeehouses that uses social commerce to give back to communities from where the coffee is sourced. These are challenges that Daniel Jones, who founded Bext360 in 2016 and serves as its CEO, is all too familiar with.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The networks are happy because they are the proud recipients of tons of brand new transaction volume.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. The regulator and media pressure on overdraft fees has been a constant challenge to overdraft revenue. regulated financial institutions! Man, this is the bread and butter of retail banking and credit unions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Isaacson has watched remote sales tax policies unfold since that time in a flurry of new laws that differ by state, and even municipality. House of Representatives lawmakers said antitrust regulators should take action against larger tech companies, which typically evade much oversight at the expense of smaller players.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely. And across equity research and sales & trading, poor performances and new regulations have led to widespread layoffs as banks have figured out they can do more with less.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. Sears and Kmart.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

Retail Jedi. At the now defunct Convergys Corporation, new sales employees pitching the company’s customer management software were known as retail Jedis. Tax Wrangler. Brand Warrior. was hiring almost 700 brand warriors to work in its call center. Her new moniker: browser boss. Chief Heart Officer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The retailer gets a new market, and the authorities get a new and often massive stream of tax revenue, not to mention a modest bump in employment. Still, it wasn’t enough for Apple to squeeze by the regulations enforced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. It was the perfect win-win. ” Cook said.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. In September 2015, Quirky finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. Total Funding: $60M.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Perhaps more importantly , because kick scooters have yet to be formally regulated, city governments are enacting more stringent regulation to curtail the rapid deployment of dockless scooters. San Francisco was one of the first cities to tackle scooter regulation. The future of transport is already here.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

We serve corporates, insurance companies, and banks – be it a retail, private, wealth management, automotive or telecom bank, tier 1 or tier 3 bank. Finally, the suite includes comprehensive Tax Compliance & Reporting capabilities to support FATCA and CRS requirements. This solutions suite is available on-premises and in the cloud.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It had a great brand. Companies have both tangible assets (factories, capital, inventory) and intangible assets, which include things like reputation and brand. In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.)

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. In addition, regulators claimed that as many as 80% of insurance plans sold in Washington state by Zenefits reps were sold illegally by unlicensed brokers. Table of contents. Theranos and the revolutionary blood tests that never existed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Retail stocks took a hit in trading late last week after GDP numbers came in lower than expected and concerns reverberated about a potential trade war with Mexico as President Trump battles it out with Mexico over covering the cost of his wall. In trading Friday (Jan. In trading Friday (Jan. percent growth rate lodged in the third quarter.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

People can say what they will about the wisdom of legal retail sales of marijuana (we here at PYMNTS take no position), but the payments knot that the cash-dominated industry is dealing with is leading to some improvisation, and even government-backed experimentation. That bill has not won approval. Sales Growth. and Canada.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. This means retailers need to be prepared to accept EMV transactions. is handled unlike any other place on the planet?

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

brandCrowder has developed an alternative investment platform focusing on branded franchises. It leverages 45+ years of franchise operations experience to help retail investors finance franchises, helping to bring them to market quicker.

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