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

APRIL 16, 2019

Retailers put together window displays and signs to create enticing storefronts, engage customers via social media and send printed ads through the mail. There’s no sales associate to offer a loyalty card at a traditional self- serve solution, after all. Unattended Loyalty . Dialing Up the Display.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

pitches its new card as a model of simplicity and transparency, upending everything consumers think about credit cards. But for the card’s overseers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Social media postings in recent days by a tech entrepreneur […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Retailers in this space are also beginning to offer more payment methods and shopping channels, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on consumer behaviors is partly driving this shift. Providing diverse payment methods is therefore becoming as essential to retailers’ success as offering expansive product lines.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

As retailers determine the best ways to reach retail customers during the coronavirus pandemic, ICICI Bank launched its banking services on Monday (March 30) on WhatsApp. . Additionally, users can get details of the nearest ICICI Bank ATMs and branches, all from the social platform. .

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Banking Exchange

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Consumer Credit The Economy Feature Financial Trends Lines of Business Retail Banking Payments Social Media Cards Community Banking Feature3 Online Mobile. "It provides the encouragement people need to vote with their dollars."

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). And let these bad memories of holidays past guide you in the coming weeks to ensure that your retail and payments machine is running in top condition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Keeping consumers invested and engaged is an eternal challenge for retailers. Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Alibaba and Tencent , which are locked in a battle to win over consumers, have invested more than $10 billion in retailers since the beginning of 2017. As a result, retailers are taking sides, CNBC reported. By working with Alibaba and Tencent, merchants can access payment systems and logistics services — as well as Big Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Move over millennials , there’s a new kid in town that is about to become nearer and dearer to retailers’ hearts: Gen Z. Gen Zers are also cautious of shopping at retailers who have had past security breaches, according to the study, with 59 percent saying they would purposely avoid shopping at such retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Last year, the U.S.-based So is WeChat. But mobile is only the beginning.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 20, 2017

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. With fastPay you can do send money to a mobile phone, withdraw cash from ATM without a card, shop with fastPay businesses and top-up cash for prepaid cards. First, there is the fastPay Wallet.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Amazon is not the only retailer grappling with a staggering number of returns: All sorts of retailers — especially some with generous return policies — have faced challenges with large numbers of returns. Sridhar noticed that the approach works: Sixty-two percent of the time people buy a gift card when offered. The reason?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the highly connected digital age, consumers are interacting with a multitude of social media sites as well as apps and connected devices. During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time. Nearly 60 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

Instagram , the photo and video sharing social media platform operator, is rolling out a trial of a new shopping program in which users can shop and check out within the app. Paige Cohen, a spokeswoman for Instagram, told Digiday the brands were chosen based on shopping performance on the social media platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

It appears that more and more consumers are getting better connected with loyalty programs by linking their cards to them. “Card-linking has a network effect, and it is accelerating,” stated Silvio Tavares, CardLinx president and CEO, in a press release.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 24, 2018

Last week, Starling unveiled changes to the payments screen on its mobile app and today it unveiled a new debit card. For starters, the new debit card is not purple, Starling’s signature color. neobank Starling is in a mood to switch things up, at least on the design front. Instead it’s teal and navy […].

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2018

Royal Bank of Canada and Facebook today offered differing versions of why the social media company continued to give the bank extraordinary access to customer data after Facebook said publicly that it would stop doing so. RBC said Facebook allowed it access in order to “wind down” a payments app it first unveiled in 2013. […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Chipotle Mexican Grill has been the victim of a cyberattack that compromised the credit card payment information for a small number of customers. Many customers have recently posted on social media that orders placed at the restaurant fraudulently used their payment cards during the first few weeks of April. per share.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Forget private conversations, chatbots and customer service: Facebook Messenger could soon be delivering retail payments to its 900 million users. In June 2015, the social media titan dropped the requirement to have a Facebook account to use the service, a strong indication the two will become unbundled, so to speak. Here’s why.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Social media posts show that some former employees, who left the company months ago, have also received notification letters. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach. Employees who may not have regular access to corporate email accounts were being notified by their managers at work.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Apple reportedly said that the service will not allow advertisers to track what subscribers are reading, which means no targeted ads based on consumed news stories, as is the case with social media. As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

A new generation of retailers are making use of these new forms of customer data, and applying advanced technology like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to anticipate the types of products their customers will want to buy. It’s that certain retailers are not paying close enough attention to consumer preferences.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

As COVID-19 has forced shutdowns and social distancing, web sales have been on the rise, and many entrepreneurs are moving their business models online. With Square Online Checkout, the San Francisco mobile payment company hopes to capitalize on this shift by offering companies what it claims is an easier way to accept online card payments.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 6, 2016

Back in 2014, Stripe confirmed that it was working with Facebook on a “Buy” button for the social media giant. Whatever happened to the “Buy with Facebook” button?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The technology, which is a collaboration with PT Bank Central Asia, functions as a supplement to the GoBiz retailer super app. Southeast Asian super-app operator Gojek is launching its new GoBiz Plus point-of-sale (POS) technology for all-in-one-purposes for micro in addition to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Indonesia.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The company, based in Austin, Texas, has software that allows companies to manage eCommerce sales through markets like Amazon or on social media like Instagram. The most common users, according to Bloomberg, include fashion, health and beauty, food and beverage and manufacturing and automotive retailers. 4) for $24 each.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2018

P2P payments service Zelle was once not too keen on social media, but its new video message feature might indicate a change of heart. The video feature, which is being marketed on Zelle's website seems a little, well. The feature works this way: the user adds the name of the person who owes them […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If history is any guide, a co-evolutionary path is likely, with an eco-system of diverse and competing payments media and systems emerging, some wholesale, others retail, some private, others public,” he said. The future of digital currencies, Haldane said, is uncertain and most likely varied. “If

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

The social media giant has been working on the project — code-named Project Libra — for more than one year, with it centered around the company’s own digital coin that users could send to each other, as well as use to make online purchases. so if they do jump on board, it could threaten the card networks’ global payments standing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

The retailer’s support account on Twitter noted the change during the weekend, 9 to 5 Mac reported. In the social media reply to a user who asked why the payment method was taken away, the retailer said, “JCPenney made the decision to remove Apple Pay for our stores, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

4,500 | Prize to be awarded to one ModCloth social media contest winner for his or her contributions to humanity. 60 percent | Portion of Singapore’s national spend done through payment cards. 60 percent | Portion of Singapore’s national spend done through payment cards. Here are the numbers: $7.9

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. hours per day on social media. Sofi has built strong engagement through its Richer Lives social media strategy and influencer Vivian, “your rich BFF.”

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