Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Shoppers had new opportunities to buy groceries without having to walk through the aisles of their local supermarkets or wait in line at checkout counters this year, as grocers rolled out digital innovations in shopping and payments. It allows them to fully immerse themselves into the retail space with convenience and efficiency.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. Once consumers reach the app’s main screen, they can find photos of the product that is up for sale that day, along with options for colors and sizes, and make a purchase, if they so choose. One of the retailers to tap into this technology?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

It’s no wonder why retailers love gift cards – they are known to drive foot traffic, increase revenue, boost their customer base and complement retention efforts. But as consumers continue to move toward a digital option for their gift card needs, could a retailer’s dream turn into an actual nightmare?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Once one gets outside of the top 25 banks in the U.S., The Soft Middle in Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

His main exposure to the payments industry was using his Bank of America debit card to pay for things at the store. That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Even so, innovators from third-party apps to restaurant chains themselves are offering mobile options that extend beyond delivery. And close to half of the respondents were most worried about the theft of their credit card data, while a slightly smaller portion of respondents was worried about an ATO.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Motivating a change in consumers or retailers is not always easy work, a reality evidenced by the plodding pace of contactless payments in the U.S. That has motivated a sea change as brands and physical retailers are working to rebuild their consumer experiences around digital, she said. Widening the Range Of eGifting’s Capability.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. Lesson 1: Think Big . “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Card fraud is an ever-present threat.

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JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is both genesis and lifeblood for companies, especially within the payments space. PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? Our approach to innovation is two-fold. Innovation is only valuable if it’s usable.

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APRIL 12, 2016

That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere. It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing. Here’s why.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Payments Innovation Leads the Way . Payments and banking products were pushed to the head of the digital-first line thanks to the pandemic, leading to the acceleration of contactless and card-not-present commerce. Those processors will in turn work with issuing banks to offer near-instant issuance of cards.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

While quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers and customers might view the same menu, they might not always be on the same page when it comes to technology and innovation. However, a look at recent data found that many QSRs are not exactly quick to implement customers’ preferred innovations.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Just about a decade ago, the checkout process at a retail shop was pretty simple — customers would wait in line to give their purchases to the cashier, who stood at a fixed point in the store, and then pay using cash or a credit card. Oh, how the times have changed.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Mastercard has moved into point-of-sale financing with the acquisition of Vyze, a FinTech firm the payment card network calls an “an end-to-end platform that facilitates financing options for merchants’ customers at checkout.”. As well, Bankrate has estimated that roughly 33 percent of millennials have cards.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Why FinTech start-ups think they can beat the banks There’s an old joke about the guy who’s lost driving in the countryside who stops to ask a pedestrian how to get to the city. You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

As documented in the December edition of the Unattended Retail Tracker™ , the results of a six-month long study conducted by USA Technologies show that just informing customers that a merchant or vendor accepts Apple Pay and other mobile wallets can boost overall sales by more than 36 percent. About the Tracker.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

By fully activating services at OXXO, Western Union’s retail Agent network has nearly doubled to more than 26,600 locations, from approximately 13,500 at close of 2015. “We We continue to execute on our strategy to attract ‘Main Street’ and ‘High Street’ brands to serve customers.”. billion was received in Mexico in 2015, an 8.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Of the 41 percent of consumers who we reported still concentrate their grocery spend predominantly online, more than a third of those physical shoppers (37 percent of the 41 percent) visit multiple stores in search of “deals” and products not found at their main “go-to” store — and two-thirds of millennials do. Prime for a Payments Switch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

FIS surveyed 25 markets in which real-time payments programs are operational, rating their innovative qualities on a scale from 1 to 5. Singapore’s Fast and Secure Transfers (FAST) scheme also received a 4 score on the innovation scale, which focuses on accelerated inter-bank transfers as well as direct debits.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Payments Innovation. And you can bet (sorry) that this fall, more of that money is going through not only mobile channels, but via more prepaid cards and other innovative methods. in the coming years will almost certainly be the prepaid card aspect. in the coming years will almost certainly be the prepaid card aspect.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) selling has taken wing with the ascendance of eCommerce to retail’s throne. What was once a small but meaningful constituency — online shoppers — suddenly seem to be holding all the cards. The use of online direct-to-consumer (D2C) channels to purchase consumer-packaged goods (CPG) has grown by 50.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Consumers have more heavily leaned on debit during the pandemic, with the economic downturn making shoppers more cautious than ever about the prospect of taking on credit card debt. A recent study even estimates that shoppers could ultimately shift $100 billion worth of annual spending from credit cards to debit cards.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 Analysts reported that physical retail sales, seasonally adjusted, were up 2.7 And what we also see is only one part of the retail sales story. percent growth in June.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

And when it comes to the retail world, cash is still […]. is still far from a cashless society, but something important is nonetheless changing in this regard -- consumer perception. Digital payments have a long way to go in the U.S., mainly because checks, particularly in the business world, are still nearly ubiquitous.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. The (Advertising) Haves And Have-Nots. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. Costco Turns The Credit Card Corner. The road to a co-branded credit card has been a bumpy one for Costco.

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