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JANUARY 30, 2020

So-called fast fashion has been a big player in retail for years, but that part of the commerce-and-apparel world is facing some serious challenges. 30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the pandemic, venture capital dollars are flowing freely to nascent firms in Asia that are tackling the need for contactless interactions and platforms that match supply and demand — setting the stage for innovation on the other side of the public health crisis. Traditional companies have had to embrace tech at an accelerating pace.

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MAY 29, 2020

Both Walmart and Amazon made some big add-ons and/or acquisitions this week as they attempt to widen their sphere of retail influence in a post-pandemic world. So the eCommerce giant certainly has both the scale and the capital required to push Zoox’s ambitious goals. The retailer had been negotiating with ThredUp for about a year.

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MAY 13, 2019

In the unattended retail space, vending operators are also becoming more aware of the shifting behaviors of their shoppers and the need for swift and digital payment options. That smaller size opens up whole new markets, and gains access to spaces that have never had a retail experience [as] a part of it.”.

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APRIL 19, 2019

liquor industry), who has combined the ongoing consumer desire for online subscription retail with the rise of craft distilleries. Along the way, he learned more about the power of brick-and-mortar retail in this increasingly online world. We had to buy a retail store to fulfill this dream. We are lucky, we guess,” he said.

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MARCH 20, 2018

As sad as the end of Toys R Us may be, the iconic toy store is far from the only retailer struggling these days — and it’s not the only one throwing in the towel this week. The beloved, bankrupt retailer has announced the cancellation of all in-store events, such as its annual Easter Egg Hunt and Geoffrey the Giraffe birthday parties.

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JULY 8, 2016

Darrell Esch, PayPal’s GM of its business financing unit, says that the company is so pleased with the progress of its Working Capital program that PayPal will now boost the amounts it will lend to SMBs. Those numbers also come against the backdrop of Oct. 2015’s tally, reporting a respective $1 billion and 60,000 merchants.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Webrooming, before the pandemic, was a full-on retailing trend. But as the pandemic-driven digital shift gains traction, retailers have to be wondering if consumers will use websites to comparison shop for brick-and-mortar retail (webrooming) or whether they’ll go back to shopping retail to order online (showrooming).

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Abrigo

MARCH 13, 2024

CRE is now arguably the riskiest asset class due to a perfect storm of: Systemic changes in the way we utilize real estate (not just office, but retail, housing, and other sectors). A wave of pending maturity events ($2 trillion of CRE loans are reported to mature in the next years). Inflationary impacts on costs of various inputs.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Fandom had always had a place online, but truly thrived at in-person events and local retailers that catered to collectors and enthusiasts’ interest in one-of-a-kind and holy grail items,” Logan Head, co-founder and chief technology officer of Whatnot, said in a press release on Friday (Dec.

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APRIL 2, 2020

The deal agreed upon earlier this year called for 1-800-Flowers, which sells flowers and gift baskets online, to purchase the Pmall.com business, or Personalization Mall , from the home furnishing retail company for $252 million. Personalization Mall specializes in selling keepsakes for special events like weddings.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. Banking Events American Banker Retail Banking Retail Banking Conference'

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MAY 7, 2020

Due to a confluence of events over the past few months, Deliv will unfortunately be winding down our operations over the next 90 days,” she wrote. Valued at $190 million two years ago, Deliv has raised $85 million in venture capital since its founding in 2012, according to PitchBook Data Inc. Google and Enterprise Holdings Inc.,

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Macy’s is partnering with the female-led millennial venture capital fund SoGal Ventures to launch an in-store initiative focused on women-owned businesses, Macy’s said in a press release on Thursday (Dec. The retailer is opening SoGifted shops in its flagship Manhattan store and six other locations. Lauderdale. 14 at 6:30 p.m.

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JULY 28, 2020

Although we are evaluating several alternatives, it is likely that we will pursue a reorganization under applicable bankruptcy laws, possibly as soon as during the third quarter of fiscal 2020, which begins on August 2, 2020,” the retailer wrote in the filing. It has also decided to not make a roughly $6.1

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Some properties have trendy retailers and strong entertainment options, while other malls may rely on anchor stores for traffic and may find it harder to fill the space left behind when one closes. You don’t have to fill retail with retail anymore,” remarked Greg Maloney, head of JLL’s America retail business, at the event.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Lumin Digital’s cloud-native infrastructure will provide banking solutions to the 50,000-plus business and retail members of Interra Credit Union. Last year, the company announced $25 million in a SignalFire-led funding round with participation from NextWorld Capital, Bloomberg Beta and Hillsven Capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

By the time retailers get to Black Friday , they will have worked through almost two months of sales events – both proprietary and otherwise – from competitors ranging from Amazon to Target to Walmart. Bottom line: The push to bring holidays forward on the calendar has thrown a wrench into the works of retail planning.

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MAY 6, 2020

Etsy CFO Rachel Glaser noted that while “we continue to be disciplined in our spending, optimizing for efficiencies in our cost base as well as in capital spending, our marketplace model allows Etsy to respond to changing conditions more rapidly than traditional retail models, resulting in solid profitability for the first quarter of 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This new round brings the Texas-based retailer’s total funding to $25.5 The Series A was led by Global Founders Capital, with participation from previous investors Forerunner Ventures, Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Allen Exploration and Capital Factory.

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APRIL 22, 2020

The retail bankruptcy watch turned to some Wednesday morning quarterbacking this week, as industry experts and observers took turns assessing the current and potential damage to the department store category amid the coronavirus crisis. Cohen, the director of retail studies at Columbia University’s Business School told The New York Times.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

The company will partner with top fashion and beauty brands and retailers for the event, which offers its two million U.S. Discounts will be offered across retailers such as NARS Cosmetics, Schutz, APL, Steve Madden and more. retailers, which represent more than 10 percent of the U.S. retail partners. many others.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While we charted Fed rate movements below, we can see similar spikes when there are material equity declines, negative economic news that increases the need to save, financial news that increases interest rates, and world events, such as a war or pandemic, that cause a flight to investment safety.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

In the event of a customer response, those messages appear in the back end, similar to a support ticket. In separate news, reports surfaced over the summer that retail messaging startup Attentive notched $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia.

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JUNE 3, 2020

His ringing endorsement of the luxury goods market, released yesterday as his annual letter to shareholders , was a clarion call to the frontlines of retailing during a decidedly difficult time. It had to close stores, like most non-essential retail, during the pandemic. No one ever said RH Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman was shy.

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MAY 23, 2018

To take the helm, the retailer has named JCPenney CEO Marvin R. The move was praised by Niblock, who said Ellison was a good fit for Lowe’s in a post-earnings conference call on Wednesday (May 23): “Marvin is an experienced retail CEO and a 30-year industry veteran with expertise in complex omnichannel environments.”. on the news.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Every retailer we have ever spoken with is interested in flooring organic product, but they have been encumbered by the cost of flooring samples and holding minimal inventory,” said CEO Jeff Bader. With the new offering, merchants that qualify will not have minimum order requirements.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

What is the role of innovation in response to these rapidly unfolding events? How will banking and fintech business models be impacted by this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic? How will banks and startups work together?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In between the mad rush to close out the business year, retailers and restaurants prep for what they hope is the most wonderful time of their year for making sales. The good news, Phalen said, is that 60 percent of the SMBs that participated in Visa’s study said they have already taken steps to capitalize on that shift.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2016

Emirates NBD, one of the Middle East’s largest banking groups, is hosting a hackathon in partnership with Berlin-based Open Bank Project in London, the reported fintech capital of the world, April 15 to 17. The event takes place at Level39 in Canary Wharf — where Read More. The deadline for early applications is today.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

The service, which the retail giant introduced in January of 2018, can help buyers add cash to an Amazon Pay balance right from their door when packages are delivered. Last year, Amazon and private equity firm Samara Capital announced they were acquiring the Indian supermarket chain More for an undisclosed amount.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 13, 2023

By better modelling how this relationship might raise insurers’ capital risk we can more firmly argue that insurers’ model assumptions should account for key dependencies between perils. Impact on insurers’ solvency requirements more robustly established Identifying that windstorm events tend to co-occur with inland flooding is one thing.

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MARCH 19, 2020

“We wanted to notify you directly about this matter in the event that you are contacted by the Department of Justice in connection with its investigation,” an Amazon representative said in an email sent to an editor for the outlet who is also a customer of the platform.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

retailers could get ATM-related refunds and there are new figures about consumer and business spending. The annual event brought in gross merchandise value of $30.8 UK Retailers Could Receive Refunds In ATM Business Rate Case. SoftBank sets its mobile unit IPO, U.K. Apple iPhone Outsells Samsung, Huawei On Alibaba’s Singles Day.

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APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 8, 2021

These extreme weather events occurred in quick succession, hindering relief efforts and accruing £1.3 Without adequate mitigation, such events may result in claims handling strain and capital risk for insurers. For retail property risk, windstorms pose the largest single natural peril risk. billion in insured losses.

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