PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Will POS terminals without a clear purpose make us long for the days of swiping plastic, punching buttons and squinting at tiny screens? In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. In a word: no.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Retail dispute management system Chargeback announced Monday (June 8) that it has closed a $6.6 Chargeback said the money will accelerate its growth and ability to help online and offline retailers decrease credit card disputes, achieve higher win rates and retain more revenue. million Series A1 funding round.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

PayPal ’s venture capital arm has invested $11 million in online returns service Happy Returns. It’s a huge validation for us,” Happy Returns Co-Founder and CEO David Sobie said in an interview, according to CNBC. “It Sobie and Co-Founder Mark Geller met at HauteLook, an early flash sale retailer that was bought by Nordstrom.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As retail reopens and starts to spur some optimism for the future, a dark number appeared on the scene on Tuesday (June 10). Coresight released a report that says 25,000 retail storefronts will close by the end of the year. Which brings us to market conditions. consumers have gone online to shop since the pandemic started.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We have deep dives into unattended retail, rapid settlements and cybersecurity, as well as news on Mastercard receiving the go-ahead from China’s central bank to set up a bank clearing business. 11 to set up a bank card clearing business, providing it with access to a $27 trillion payments market. Uber reported its earnings last week.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. And then, after the transaction is made, there’s the task of understanding the byzantine codes and data that are tied to online statements.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Consumers were already changing their retail preferences before anyone had heard of COVID-19, let alone had their life utterly upended by it. This vastly accelerated retail realignment presents challenges — and opportunities — for retailers of all kinds, particularly those dealing in luxury goods, Molnar said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

New evidence of that — part of the broader trend of the existential changes in the world of brick-and-mortar retail, changes that are gaining more focus this month — comes from reports that stationery chain Papyrus is closing up shop. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Total retail growth was 3.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

24) they had formed a new partnership to expand the acceptance of the UnionPay card in the U.S. to pay with their UnionPay chip, credit and debit cards at First Data merchant clients. We are extremely proud to work with an innovative partner like UnionPay International to expand their card acceptance throughout the United States.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rakuten In Store Network, an advertising platform to help push in-store sales and traffic with rewards programs linked to cards, has announced a partnership with engagement platform Prodege to increase its card-linked offers and allow for Prodege members to get gift cards and cash back when shopping at certain retailers. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rakuten In Store Network, an advertising platform to help push in-store sales and traffic with rewards programs linked to cards, has announced a partnership with engagement platform Prodege to increase its card-linked offers and allow for Prodege members to get gift cards and cash back when shopping at certain retailers. .

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Taking out a credit card and entering its number is a friction point that can cause consumers to abandon both online purchases (7% of abandoned online carts are due to not having a credit card handy or the same credit card accepted by the merchant) and in-person purchase decisions. from a bank.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This week, Stripe introduced banking services, we get a glimpse of the EU's upcoming Digital Services Act and PYMNTS' data reveals online purchases ruled Black Friday. Mastercard Intros Mobilized Virtual Cards; Defines Intersection Between Functionality And Security. But without support for mobile wallets, v-card adoption can lag.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. Stripe Capital helped us expand our global footprint,” said Richard Blakely, Xirsys CEO and co-founder. “We We used the funding to set up servers in China, India and Japan, allowing us to reach customers all over the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The strategic partnership enables Cybersource’s merchants worldwide to access Visa’s eCommerce credit card payment system. merchants to offer customers an installment payment option at checkout using a Visa card. The partnership also means that ChargeAfter will launch Visa Installments solution on the Cybersource platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led consumers to try digital tools for grocery shopping, and the total number of online grocery orders in the U.S. That month saw 40 million customers head online to shop for groceries, and these customers are expecting their preferred chains to keep up with that shift. . reached a record 62.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The expansion will now cover retail brands including H&M , O.N.S. Klarna’s 2020 Holiday Retail Report found that most U.S. Forty-six percent prefer shopping online. Klarna allows customers to use the mobile app to create a one-time virtual card at participating stores, which can be used to purchase items.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The past several months have been largely defined in the retail world by merchants and brands making quick digital pivots to stay afloat in an environment that’s gone from “digital sometimes” to “digital mostly.”. When selling online became the only game in town, retailers across the board got very seriously digital overnight.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

and has attracted more than 3,000 retailers to its partnerships. Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level. It’s also typically fairly fast moving, but for Klarna it gets us close to great brands. The changes in fashion retail are being driven by three dynamics.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2020

Census Bureau reported that retail eCommerce sales for the second quarter, on an unadjusted basis, stood at $200.7 That jump comes at total retail sales were $1.3 Online sales, then, stood at 15.1 Online sales, then, stood at 15.1 percent, even as total US retail sales slipped 3.4 trillion, down 3.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Dollar Shave Club (DSC)’s board of directors have named a new CEO for the brand, while Albertsons Companies registered a digital sales growth spike in its third quarter fiscal 2020 results. Salesforce Unveils Loyalty Management Platform For Businesses As Online Sales Boom. Gross margin increased to 29.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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BankBazaar

AUGUST 29, 2022

So, we’ve picked the top Credit Cards that offer you freedom from fees (among other best-in-class benefits). Take a look and thank us later! If you’re looking for a lifetime-free Credit Card that’s high on rewards, your search ends here. YES Bank-BankBazaar FinBooster Credit Card. 200 spent on online dining.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

After all, for many of us, 1999 seems like it was just yesterday. Consumers won’t be walking up to a cashier after standing in a checkout line to swipe a card when they visit a store. In a world where, as the Census says, 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store, cards rule. By then, it might be.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Retailers are not just looking to donate a percentage of profits to a charity or cause, either, but are also seeing it as a way to foster customer engagement. The partnership helped elevate the campaign and allowed us to connect with each other’s core group of customers — something we’d like to repeat with more companies for certain causes.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech. Value of Location.

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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

JUNE 27, 2019

That sense of hope is a big part of childhood, and it applies as well to retail aimed as children, as least going by current developments involving Toys R Us. That news is another recent development in the world of children’s retail, where innovation continues. Retail Recommendations. Tru Kids Inc. Market Void.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

The company says that its offline-online split is about 66 to 33 percent of sales. He led with his strong card: eCommerce. “We The flexibility of our business model allows us to stay ahead of these changes as we serve customers through our two distinct brands Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack. “The Loss per diluted share of $3.33

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Starbucks is planning to permanently shut down operations for its online store, effective Oct. In addition, Starbucks aims to stay in contact with its most loyal online shoppers to apprise them of product inventory information and which items are sold out, Starbucks’ spokesperson Maggie Jantzen told Business Insider.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Walmart Labs, the technology arm of Walmart, discovered that most declined purchases on the retail giant’s site were soft declines, which are credit card rejections due to generic issuer errors such as server timeout or issuer unavailability. The response of the automatic attempt overwrites the initial Soft Decline status.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

You can probably tell by the happy looks on all the children’s faces, but in case not — back-to-school season is upon us. Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70

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PYMNTS

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 Latest from Toys R Us. The Easter bunny will not be paying a visit to Toys R Us this year, unless it’s to get a discount on toys for Easter baskets.

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