PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Bad news hit the startup community this week as new analysis from CBInsights revealed a significant decline in venture capital (VC) funding in the first quarter of 2020. The trend is not entirely unexpected and can be attributed to the pandemic, with FinTech funding dropping by 37 percent quarter-over-quarter to $6.1 Xtracap Fintech.

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CB Insights

MARCH 11, 2019

Amazon may dominate discussions about the future of retail, but a range of technologies are already disrupting the sector. Our analysts looked at signals across the industry to identify the top 21 retail trends to watch in 2019. GET the 54-page retail TRENDS report. Experiential & Destination Retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. 21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.”

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's the beginning of a new year, and naturally new trends will take shape. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations. After a recent $55 million capital raise , Sezzle plans to focus more on that area of business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. Vroom said it will use the capital to invest in expanding its workforce, technology, operations and marketing, as well as products. Spending Trends. Retail spending growth began to slow as we entered the fourth quarter,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

is close to a deal to buy ATM operator Cardtronics , fending off two other bidders, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday (Jan. Cardtronics boasts 285,000 ATMs in 10 countries, and is one of the biggest cash machine operators in the world, WSJ writes. billion, those with knowledge of the matter told WSJ.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 8, 2022

With 100+ public banks reporting, we have more than a representative sample to see 2Q 2022 bank earnings trends and derive some operational insights on bank performance. In this article, we put some data behind the trends and provide optimal targets to help you run your bank more successfully. Look for this trend to increase.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

CoverWallet , which was founded in 2015, has over 300 employees in all of its departments, which include engineering, digital marketing, data science, business intelligence, design and operations. The rise of so-called InsurTech stands as one of the most promising trends of the new decade. InsurTech Rising.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Despite a surge in sales, small businesses selling online can struggle to manage working capital, particularly as many rely on third-party marketplaces like Amazon that don't facilitate instant access to revenues. Digital commerce is a capital-intensive business model, he said, and keeping pace with buyer demand puts a strain on finances.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Amid the retailer’s reported impending bankruptcy, an investor group is intending to provide an alternative to a $600 million financing arrangement for Neiman Marcus Group and pressure it toward a sale. The investor group includes Third Point LLC and Mudrick Capital Management LP, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

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. Distillery Gains.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When Miami-based Retail e-Commerce Ventures (REV) recently announced that it purchased the remains of twice-bankrupt RadioShack , it wasn’t some one-off strategy to acquire distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. It’s a plan the company describes as “transforming well-known, distressed retail brands into eCommerce success stories.”

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BankUnderground

APRIL 28, 2023

Mahmoud Fatouh Small banks tend to have more specialised business models, likely focusing on commercial and retail banking activities, and show limited interconnectedness to other financial institutions. Although capital standards existed before 2010, they were significantly weaker.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet — which there isn’t — the network is no substitute to the essential ingredient of capitalism — salespeople.”. Take retail salespeople — Stoll’s self-proclaimed cornerstones of capitalism. Service — not sales — is the new human retail touchpoint.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

True Religion was acquired for $824 million in 2013 by London-based capital investment firm TowerBrook Investment Partners, and ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2017. Due to the pandemic forcing stores to close, around a million employees of various brands and retailers have been furloughed.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming with logistics firms to test drones for delivery — and making progress on their experimental flights. A remote operator monitored them and could step in if needed.) The pop-up shops will be in the pharmacy chain’s retail locations in 44 states starting this Friday and through the end of December.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today.

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Abrigo

MAY 24, 2023

“Without full access to the banking and payments system, legal cannabis businesses are forced to operate in the shadows,” said Sen. Without access to traditional banks, legal cannabis businesses can’t access loans and capital or even use basic bank accounts. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in the same hearing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A decade ago, the concept of building a retail operation around shopping in other people’s closets was something of a hard sell. We were kind of the original disruption in the fashion retail space, as it brought the concept of sharing a closet to the forefront in 2009.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

In that recent discussion with Karen Webster, Nussenbaum talked about how his company is bringing back-end marketplace services — which include merchandising and fulfillment tasks — to a host of retailers and brands in a variety of retail niches. The new goal for the two entrepreneurs? Marketplace Concept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK? Are SMBs Ready For EMV?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

The news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week that the retail industry added 48,000 new jobs in March — bringing the increase to 378,000 new jobs over the past 12 months — appears to be positive on a number of fronts. And while the number of retail jobs in the U.S. While it’s reasonable to presume that any U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

small businesses don’t have a website, so there is a huge opportunity for many of these businesses to capitalize on the growing eCommerce trend. percent of all global retail sales. Also on the rise are direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, which have a different set of business needs than traditional retailers. “As

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Yesterday, the smaller-scale fulfillment company closed $40 million in Series C funding, led by Activant Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $70 million. That’s where Deliverr comes in,” said Steve Sarracino, founding partner of Activant Capital, in a statement. population now within 100 miles of one of its warehouses.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

There are significant opportunities for mid-market B2B firms to not only digitize their sales operations, but to also emerge into more agile corporations that scale to meet their buyers' needs. As such, said Bachalli, payments are also at the heart of another key emerging trend in the B2B eCommerce space: loyalty.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They’re not equipped to manage the operational risks associated with these smaller businesses,” Shoihet told PYMNTS, especially when it comes to extending short duration credit lines, debt products or factoring. It’s very difficult for a bank to justify [accounts receivable] AR financing that effectively puts capital at risk,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

BigCommerce , which works in software for online business operations, saw its value rise by 292 percent after an initial public offering (IPO) for $216 million was priced above a target range, according to a report by Bloomberg. exchange for a company raising at least $100 million, according to Bloomberg’s data. 4) for $24 each.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, is making an ambitious foray into the €38bn luxury clothing market. The retailer is aiming to capitalize on the growing trend of shoppers making high-value purchases on the internet. Orders increased from 116 million to 145 million.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

The company, which operates in the U.S., Given the ongoing impacts from COVID-19 and the uncertain global economic conditions, we have continued to focus on preserving capital and maintaining a strong balance sheet.”. Today, this trend is repeating itself.”. Afterpay Ltd. , Total sales were $11.1

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Bank Innovation

MAY 31, 2017

Well think of it like this: Traditional banks are built to service three main client cohorts; 1) Large Corporates, 2) High net worth individuals and 3) homogenous retail. The second expectation is that these platforms will sell data to companies through premium APIs to help generate improved operational efficiency.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

As restaurants continue to wrestle with the questions that come with food delivery — how to make enough money, whether to work with third-party operators, how to manage customer relationships — a new factor is gaining significance. million in fresh capital, a funding round that comes after one in May that brought it about $7.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

China trade dispute has intensified the existing trend of companies diversifying their supply chains to reduce reliance on China, allowing for other markets to benefit from increased trade activity. Steve Madden is one retailer that publicly announced its efforts to move its supply chain operations out of China.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When Home Depot announced last month its plans to acquire HD Supply Holdings , it wasn’t just a sign of expansion for the home improvement retailer. The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations.

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