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MAY 29, 2019

It’s not often that one gets to see a new form of retail emerge, but that’s what’s happening with, of all things, legal recreational cannabis. So far, this retail is taking a form that is big, feminine and even a bit luxurious. The retailer said it is launching The High End, a luxury cannabis lifestyle and wellness concept shop.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, Nevada calls itself when charging customers’ credit cards. Big Retail.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

16), the retailer announced in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The purchase process will involve scanning QR codes on mobile devices, CVS stated in the release. Customers at 8,200 CVS Pharmacy locations can use PayPal and Venmo to pay for purchases contact-free starting Monday (Nov. The partnership.

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JUNE 14, 2018

N26 , the FinTech bank startup, is upgrading its N26 Metal card, with a launch happening Wednesday (June 13). According to a report in TechCrunch , the card was first announced at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in December of 2017 and was available for early access by N26 Black customers.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once gawky teenager growing into a graceful, confident person. and Canada.

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JUNE 13, 2019

In early May, Mastercard , in partnership with SEDESSON, the Mexico state agency for social benefits, and Edenred Bank, announced a first-of-its-kind test in Mexico’s Sonora state – the first regional test of biometric card technology in national history. The Challenge of Building the Right Card for the Job. In the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dramatic shifts are underway in the retail sector as it adjusts to consumers’ increasingly digital preferences. Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. This is partly due to the growing participation of luxury retailers that have signed onto the platform.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

middle class is making income gains and earning more than ever, but much of the commerce designed to appeal to those consumers — arguably the most significant cultural and economic force in the United States since the defeat of Germany and Japan in 1945 — continues to suffer. Middle Retail. Not Amazon’s Fault.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. 30 of this year in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.). “We In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Kroger Co.

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MAY 5, 2020

has taken in $920 million in cash via arrangements with co-branded credit card firms. Approximately 75 percent of hotel rooms are vacant in just the United States, and seven in 10 lodging workers have been put on leave or laid off. As it weathers a lull in travel because of COVID-19, Marriott International Inc.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

And as reported in the Financial Times , banks that are relatively more dependent on lending activities to keep operations afloat are facing challenges that have not been seen since the financial crisis and recession of more than a decade ago.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Connected commerce is among the hottest trends in retail, and not just for streaming or ridesharing or online gaming services, but for subscription purchases, too. In fact, according to new PYMNTS research, digital services are expanding in the United States and in markets around the world.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Shoppers in the United States have long turned to credit cards to let them get the products now while delaying payments until they have a chance to save up. These plans fund retail purchases that consumers can then pay off over time in typically four installments. Learn more in the Tracker. About The Tracke r®.

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MAY 29, 2019

In contactless payments news, only a small fraction of payments in the United States avoid the swipe or chip card reader. And financial operating system company OpenFin recently raised funds in a Series C round. that avoid the swipe or chip card reader. 3 percent: Approximate share of payments in the U.S.

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JULY 5, 2018

Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards. As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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JUNE 30, 2017

FIS, the financial services technology, and Cardtronics, the ATM owner/operator, announced Thursday (June 29) plans to integrate FIS Cardless Cash access across Cardtronics’ ATM fleet in the United States. With the technology, consumers can access their funds and authorize how much to withdraw without needing a physical card.

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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. Ideally, we’d want to be a financing partner for every buyer relationship that they have in the United States,” Shoihet said.

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JUNE 19, 2016

On the EMV front, Home Depot decided it felt strongly enough about Chip and PIN that that it sue MasterCard and Visa over it.Walmart Canada decided it would stop accepting Visa cards since they say they are too expensive. And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk.

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MARCH 8, 2019

Retailers are bringing omnichannel experiences to consumers by bridging the worlds of online and brick-and-mortar commerce through offerings such as buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS). Following that trend, Fast fashion apparel retailer rue21 recently announced it plans to bring the offering to more than 700 stores.

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JULY 7, 2020

For example, Afterpay, which operates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, recently reported that it served 4.4 They’re also among the most heavily affected by high student-loan and credit-card debt. million U.S. customers in the company’s fiscal third-quarter ended March 31.

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MARCH 17, 2016

Or, at least, its gift cards do, if recent reports are to be believed. According to the filing, the Costa Rica-based site 5Dimes instructed customers based in the United States that Amazon gift cards were the preferred method of paying for their sports betting. Amazon also has uses there. the filing reads.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Consumers are accustomed to using digital payment methods to make retail purchases. They can easily pay using digital wallets, cards-on-file or a wide variety of digital payment options online or in store, and transactions are expected to be fast, seamless and simple. This is a far different experience for everyday business purchases.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

A new year has begun, but the pandemic continues to throw financial and operational curveballs at banks, businesses and their consumers regarding how they conduct daily tasks or routine payments. consumers now count themselves as “ debit-centric ” users, a sizable jump over the 33 percent who said the same about credit cards.

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MARCH 20, 2020

The coronavirus is changing retail compensation, operations, logistics and hiring. Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus focusing on retail. The bank has made known multiple relief measures for consumers as well as small businesses such as deferred credit card payments. In other news, U.K.

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JULY 26, 2017

Developers can literally come in, sign up and start building a card product,” said Gardner. The typical way of building a card product, by going to a bank and leveraging that bank’s platform, need no longer be the norm.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Canada’s Lightspeed rolled out an offering for retailers based in the United States called Lightspeed Payments, the company said in an announcement. The system integrates payment processing with a point of sale (POS) for merchants operating online and in physical stores.

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JULY 24, 2019

Zeta did not disclose how much it raised but noted it plans to expand operations in the U.S., Zeta currently operates in Asia and Latin America, connecting banks to its banking platform so those institutions can offer their own retail and corporate financial services and products. Europe and Southeast Asia with the funding.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The United States federal government issues Social Security benefits to recipients’ reloadable debit cards, for example, thus giving unbanked residents a faster, more secure alternative to receiving payments via paper checks. SMBs in the United Kingdom are also seeking easier ways to accept payments.

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JUNE 6, 2019

For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind the scenes for stock and quality control, as well as to provide product information to customers with smartphones. don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. However, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

14), CNBC reported that JPMorgan Chase will be rolling out the first cryptocurrency on offer from a major bank based in the United States. The use of crypto in international payments will be among the first real-world use cases done with a bank – and will be centered on institutional use (rather than sold to retail customers).

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MAY 4, 2017

In the latest webinar series, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster jumped into the findings of the Global Cash Index, gaining a sense of the story behind the numbers in the United States and the Americas in general. Cards are perhaps proving a sticking point in the move toward electronic payments. Keep a lid on the casket talk.

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JULY 26, 2018

As had been seen with Visa on Wednesday (July 25), the company also took reserves tied to litigation ongoing in the United States and the U.K. The United States showed 9 percent overall growth, and that rate was handily outpaced by the 16 percent seen in the rest of the world. The tally of $3.7 trillion.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

11) call with investors to discuss the acquisition, Equifax CEO Mark Begor , Equifax CFO John Gamble , and Sid Singh , president of Equifax's United States Information Solutions (USIS), said the deal cements the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven fraud defenses that are vital in an eCommerce market worth trillions of dollars across the globe.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The Fold Kickbacks program, which supports bitcoin’s second layer Lightning Network, features big retailers including Amazon, Starbucks and Uber in select countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

percent of them stating that receiving such access to funds is “very” or “extremely” important. Consumers’ growing familiarity with P2P apps and the pandemic’s effects on business operations are also rubbing off on companies, prompting many to reexamine the use of real-time payment solutions.

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JULY 21, 2017

Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well. Fraud varies country to country, region to region.

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