PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

They have paid down their credit cards. Several studies have validated various spending trends that could make this scenario tenable. The main one centers on the drop in credit card spend. Additionally, total card balances fell to $723 billion, a decline of more than 10 percent year over year and the lowest since Q2 2017.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Walgreens has followed in the footsteps of Walmart and Amazon to join the retailer-as-ad-agency trend , while BigCommerce recently launched Open Checkout to let developers, retailers and partners create tailored checkout experiences. And in B2B payments, virtual cards are helping firms manage spend in real time.

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Banking Exchange

AUGUST 23, 2021

Study finds that midsize credit card issuers report greater drop in customer satisfaction levels compared to national counterparts Retail Banking Financial Trends Feature Feature3 Financial Research Cards Payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This will not only help retail items be more accessible to more consumers but could help merchants bounce back from what may have been a rocky year in sales due to the pandemic. Nearly 20 percent of shoppers ages 22 to 30 lack credit histories that are robust enough to grant them credit card approval, for example. About The Tracker .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards. consumers have shifted to digital shopping channels to purchase retail products, a fourfold increase since the start of the pandemic. The report finds that 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mao, whose company provides solutions for payments, prepaid cards and gift cards, said the only way for merchants to go is forward, because going back isn’t an option. Digital Gift Cards ’ Growth. She said a few factors — some more obvious than others — are pushing that trend. Not All ‘Gift’ Cards Are Gifts .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Social shopping is the latest pandemic-driven trend to catch fire. Although it is built for retail eCommerce, Tuli will start with restaurants. It also includes an online ordering solution at what the company says is an industry-low 10 percent commission, including credit card fees. 4) with Tuli.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

certification: They must, for instance, resolve issues when a payment reader’s too-powerful field strength results in damaged smartphones and cards. From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. Payment trends are expected to continue to tilt toward eCommerce through the remainder of 2020 as well, with some experts predicting that more than 2.1

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Mike Rittler, general manager of retail card services and personal lending at TD Bank, shares his insight on trends, transformative innovation and how the 'traditional check out' experience is on its way out.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The holiday shopping season is upon us, and the trends for the season are emerging. Retailers are certainly in the swing of things. The retailer is also planning events based on popular culture, with Pokémon, Frozen and Star Wars on the roster. It also said “ uncertainty over trade ” could potentially harm sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Or the start of a troubling trend? The BLS data showed that professional and business services saw 161,000 positions added, while retail, in the midst of the all-important holiday shopping season, saw 121,000 jobs added. One rough jobs report does not a trend make – but it certainly bears watching as we head into a new year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

The severe delinquency rate on private label retail credit cards jumped 57 basis points from March of last year and stands at 4.65 percent, according to Equifax ’s latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report. Equifax found that all credit cards account for 21.4 billion are up 0.8 It currently stands at 71.2

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In Beyond the Card: Toward the Cardless and Contactless Future , a PYMNTS and i2c Inc. Physical cards are changing form, as some NFC-capable mini-cards are being embedded in rings and other wearables. Now comes the work of embedding touchless payments anywhere and everywhere people might want them. told PYMNTS.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Caught between the focus on Labor Day and the holiday season, yet another retail event looks like it’s being scorched by the pandemic. Halloween sales are expected to be significantly impacted by social distancing concerns, and some retailers are already warning about the consequences. “We Halloween spending in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The approach bucks a recent technology industry trend to move away from offering free subscriptions. Apple TV+ and Apple Card also are sold as part of the Apple One bundled subscription offering, which the company in its marketing materials calls “the ultimate collection of Apple services for one low monthly price.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For retailers, the holiday season is both a busy and profitable time, but it’s also when cybercriminals seize the opportunity and target those increased retail revenues. Fraudsters are using this data to pull off card-not-present (CNP) fraud schemes, such as account takeovers. About The Report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

s Fa ster Payments Support Everyday Retail? retailers are looking for cheaper, faster alternatives to card-based payments, and some financial players think the Faster Payments rail could be key. Can The U.K.’s A number of U.K.

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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. However, this shift does not portend a complete abandonment of brick-and-mortar retail. percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bridge millennials’ rise is changing the retail ecosystem ahead of the 2019 holiday season, but their impacts will continue to be felt in the year ahead. The group also spends more than other demographics, averaging $2,225 in retail purchases per year. Bridge millennials are becoming bellwethers of shifting retail trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Moran said the overall trend toward automation is being driven by the consumer, and in particular, by millennial consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In this week's news, we saw two blockbuster IPOs, arguments and stalemates over a new stimulus bill, and new data on consumers' digital shopping trends. Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Nearly 90 percent of millennials have credit cards, yet still seek new ways to finance their online purchases.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Our UK Credit Market Report of UK card trends for July 2021 reveals that there was an uplift in missed payment rates, whilst spend on cards marginally fell. July also saw: A 7 percent increase in the percentage of card holders missing one payment. Balances for card holders missing two payments are £215 or 9.5

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Shoppers may be reluctant to hand over their card details to every online retailer, as each transaction represents another risk that consumers’ information could be exposed in a breach. Virtual Card Payment Trends. Consumers as a whole may be exhibiting similar trends toward virtual card uptake.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the inaugural QR Code Payments Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of QR codes, including new implementations at retailers and payment providers, the security concerns facing this payment method, and the pandemic’s effect on the development and rollout of QR code-enabled payment options. Retail Environment.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

More consumers than ever are turning to online shopping channels to meet their needs during the pandemic, but many are also aware that cybercriminals are looking to capitalize on this stepped-up online activity to steal their card data. This is leading some families to put their children’s funds on virtual cards instead, according to U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

Retailers are becoming more interested in omnichannel offerings: The PYMNTS mPOS Tracker found that 67 percent of those surveyed listed it as a priority for this year. From Walgreens to HP , retailers and technology providers are embracing the world of mobile payments through the help of point-of-sale technology.

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