PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Will the ban on the credit card surcharge automatically lead to significantly higher prices when consumers opt for the plastic (via card or digital wallets) at the pump, at the counter … or pretty much anywhere? In New York this month, credit card surcharges got the okay. Maybe, maybe not. As Webster recounted Monday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Big brands are opening pop-up shops chock full of digital commerce technology and experiences for fans, and Nike is no exception. Beyond the pop-up shop, the retailer is opening a “Studio of Dreams” Super Bowl Content Studio on the same block. The sportswear company said the store would feature limited-edition styles that will rotate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Financial institutions can keep customers safe by accurately determining when attempted transactions are legitimate versus when they are being made by fraudsters who have stolen customers’ cards or taken over accounts. States are now enabling some brick-and-mortar retailers to reopen, which is causing another major shift in buying habits.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The feature is also available for debit, small business and prepaid card users, according to the announcement. We are using our technology and partnerships to make sure our products can power both value and convenience in their everyday lives as well as the priceless possibilities that lay ahead of us.”. Florida; and Texas.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Our investments in technologies like biometrics, tokens, encryption and artificial intelligence are redefining the way both consumers and transactions are protected.” billion Mastercard and Maestro-branded cards worldwide. directly to their debit cards. directly to their debit cards. ” By The Numbers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But, for consumers with more cash on hand or cards with higher spending limits, more luxurious items, including caviar and cars, can also be purchased through specialized vending machines. Take online vehicle marketplace Carvana, which recently installed its first car vending machine in Florida. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Are shopping malls doomed to fall by the wayside along with retail trends of the past? This year, Boston Retail Partners principal analyst Ken Morris shared his thoughts with Glossy on the closing department stores and what’s happening as a result. Not quite yet. But what’s interesting is what’s happening to the good malls.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The entries this year reveal great advances in technology and approach as organizations become more sophisticated in the way they solve their most pressing challenges. There was plenty of creativity and moxy in the approaches, business models and technologies deployed by the class of 2023.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show is an annual three-day event for hospitality professionals to network, source, purchase and learn about new industry trends to follow, how to increase profits and how to ramp up their restaurant or lodging business to engage and serve customers in innovative ways. 11 through Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

It’s one of the ideals of payments and commerce, a vision that drives so much research and experimentation: Making it through a store checkout lane without fishing for a card or waving a mobile phone, or even checking into a hotel after an exhausting flight without producing a driver’s license and credit card to gain access to the room.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Well, that’s a problem that Miami, Florida-based shoe startup Flat Out of Heels is hoping to solve. In a recent interview, company founder Dawn Dickson discussed how Flat Out of Heels and the unattended retail sector as a whole have each evolved since their inception. Simple Beginnings. Last Name*. Work Email*. About the Report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve. A very wide path.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. The hackathon began at 8 p.m.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As a result, Instacart is getting into the business of developing apps for grocery retailers. In fact, consumers gave grocery retailers an average score of 30.2 The old method of consumer retail savings is meeting the new in Target’s shopping app , Cartwheel , for example. Essentially, the program works like a rebate.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

FICO has announced its panel of independent judges for the 2023 FICO® Decisions Awards , which honor businesses achieving outstanding results using analytics and decision management technology to grow their business, manage risk and reduce costs. Neeti Aggarwal manages the financial technology and innovation research at The Asian Banker.

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NCR

MARCH 29, 2016

EMV chip cards made their debut in the U.S. last fall, and some retailers are still struggling to get the technology implemented in their stores. The switch from magnetic-stripe cards has meant not just new cards, but new payment processes, as well, which some folks have found frustrating.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Separately, AppZen, said that within companies themselves, expenses are not monitored as closely as they might be with the aid of technology. The employee had been given the fuel card as part of their job, which included driving a corporate vehicle. Brixmor owns 421 retail locations, according to The Morning Call.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

Bill Catania, for instance, began Zapt after he bought a refrigerator at a big-box retail store and wanted to have it delivered to his house. The company’s technology platform connects consumers and businesses with background-checked pros to complete any number of logistical tasks. It also provides a finite price to consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., population.

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FICO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Some of the patents granted this year that are most meaningful to me include: “Visualization for Payment Card Transaction Fraud Analysis,” which relates to a computer-implemented method and system for visualizing payment card transactional fraud analysis. This technology is incorporated into FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Acronym of the Year – CCCA (Credit Card Competition Act). The Smarter Bank Technology Award. 2008 called and wants its headlines back. Goes to Sen.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

The company has said that it is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer digital services, ranging from business credit cards to working capital loans to SBA loans. Verticals within the SMB realm that may be receptive to online lending, he said, include manufacturing and retail.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

The bank, which attributes 31% of its loan portfolio to agriculture, opened loan production offices (LPOs) in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. “We Because of our crop insurance business in Florida, I met an experienced ag lender, and circumstances worked out that we had an opportunity to bring him on board. And in New Albany, Miss.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Petersburg, Florida-based company manages contact center operations for health care companies, financial services firms and consumer goods tech giants like Samsung. To enable these payments, iQor accepts credit card, debit card and check-by-phone – though Praznik noted the latter was not as popular as the former options.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

“I would not want to be a merchant responsible for managing fraud today,” Spear told Karen Webster in a live online discussion on the topic held last week with an audience of online retailers. “It Rather, the decline reflects the adoption of new technologies that use machine learning to mitigate fraud threats, he said.

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FICO

JULY 6, 2023

There is also growing impact to traditional card portfolios, not just demand deposit accounts (DDA) and real-time payments channels. The people I talked with about scams were thrilled to learn more about putting technology in place to help curb this insidious and alarming type of fraud.

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FICO

APRIL 28, 2020

The 2019 FICO Decisions Award winners have demonstrated what is possible with a clear business objective, innovative use of technology and a great partnership. Vodafone UK , has transformed its customer onboarding experience using decision management technology in the cloud, enabling it to offer 24x7 support for all its channels.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Café X Technologies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The program is getting off the ground in Florida, and is on track for expansion to other Whole Foods stores as soon as summer 2018. based retailers. It began by recognizing we are a food company powered by technology and continued with a laser focus on our business fundamentals,” said Hall.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Strangest Sale of the Year – Was the first-failed and then convoluted spin-off and sale of BankMobile by Customers Bancorp to Flagship Community in Florida. Credit Union Merger of the Year – Goes to Lake Michigan Credit Union and its CEO Sandy Jelinski for acquiring Florida-based community bank Encore. At a banking conference.

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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. The goal, quite simply, is to begin flipping all those cash payments into digital payments.

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FICO

MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars transformed its customer onboarding experience using decision management technology in the cloud to digitize and accelerate the process for its new vehicle subscription service, Care by Volvo. Avon was also able to automate 90 percent of limit increase requests made by sales representatives. Read the full Avon story here.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

EverBank figures include acquisition of Bank of Florida deposits of $1.5 The major card-based direct banks – American Express, Capital One and Discover – have all done very well. Retail Banks $1,271,189,782. How strategic is your technology spending ? billion in 2010. All Other Banks 1,406,184,759.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

Miller, who’s a general contractor and the owner-operator of The Screen Depot, based out of Boynton Beach, Florida, found dealing with out-of-state client payments to be a hassle for both parties. First not knowing whether they were going to use a credit card and then, which card they might end up using.”.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to blockchain technology, there’s a lot of hype. Ziddu focuses on blockchain-backed solutions that offer microfinance lending against collateralized commodities in the form of Ziddu Coins — in other words, blockchain-based technology that could hypothetically make it easier for LongFin to collect collateral from borrowers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 29, 2016

Sberbank also plans to use lures to help drive traffic to its locations, an initiative already underway at CenterState Bank in Florida. Read our take on the technology , and its potential as a marketing tool for FIs. Pokemon Go Is Inspiring Small Retailers. So Has Augmented Reality Gone Mainstream? – AdWeek.

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