Bank Innovation

JULY 25, 2016

Regions Bank tied with Amazon.com in a recent ranking of web experiences. How does a super-regional bank match the efforts of one the most sophisticated digital companies in the world, one that obsesses over customer experience?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

The travel luggage company noted in a Medium post that it has seen sales of its products drop by over 90 percent over the past few weeks. Korey and Rubio noted that most of the furloughed staffers are part of the company’s customer experience and retail teams who work with shoppers directly. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

The latest example of this comes from Regions Bank at its corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Ala. Prior to joining the Regions Bank community, Duggirala served as the CTO of Kabbage, a small business lender. While at Kabbage, Duggirala was responsible for moving the ball forward on the company’s lending platform scalability.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 20, 2016

Regions Financial Corp. The bank’s CEO, Grayson Hall, said yesterday during the company’s earnings call that the Avant loan application service will go live next month. The Regions-Avant partnership was announced last April. “[W]e’re in the process even Read More.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A new law in California requires companies to explain exactly what customer information, if any, is being sold to third parties, according to a report by Reuters. Retailers are rushing to achieve compliance, adding links to websites with “Do Not Sell My Info” buttons and creating signage in stores to the same effect.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Start creating more customer data to feed the algorithm and then you too can join the artificial intelligence (AI) retail revolution. Retailers can engage with an “AI lite” strategy that produces lookalike customer data and a level of predictive analytics. But the present and future of AI in retail is much richer. Not so fast.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Red Dot Capital Partners has landed $200 million to invest in tech firms, Walmart announced it would sell its retail operations in Argentina to Grupo de Narváez. The firm is geared toward growth-stage tech companies. Plus, Amazon has opened three additional logistics hubs in Brazil.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

With visitor arrivals to Hong Kong dramatically falling, the financial center’s retail sales registered a double-digit drop in November. Retail sales by value retreated 23.6 The retail outlook in the short term will still depend on how those social incidents play out over time per the spokesperson.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For retailers, the fourth quarter of 2020 is likely to see a media blitz that will make other years pale in comparison. Unspent budget from big box retailers will be let loose as early as Oct. There are many critical aspects to SMB retail media strategy but two stand out this year: when to advertise and where to advertise.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

But for non-essential retail, stepping up takes more commitment, risk and money. It’s in the non-essential category that true retail heroes are showing up amid the coronavirus pandemic. 1: In Detroit Bedrock LLC real estate company is giving free rent for the next three months to its small-business retail and restaurant tenants.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

In today’s top retail news, CarLotz, Inc. Plus, retail rents have fallen to historic lows in the Big Apple amid the coronavirus pandemic. The news comes following its announcement that it would become a public company through a combination with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Companies such as Otherland , however, are aiming to disrupt the candle through better design. And in online shopping, eCommerce retailers such as eat2explore are helping to introduce families to new cuisines with boxes of recipes, spices, sauces and grains, among other items.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In today’s top retail news, Philadelphia Real Estate Trust reopens its newest property, Ralph Lauren cuts its workforce and Mall of America offers space to local businesses. 22) the company announced steps to cut its workforce and accelerate its digital transformation. Mall of America To Provide 'Community Commons' For Local Companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

That’s the case with the new employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed that retail jobs held steady between January and February. Manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing saw little change in employment for the month, the BLS said. Sometimes no news is good news.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

This is the first time eBay has allowed direct video uploads, and the company thinks it will help to drive sales. The online marketplace company wants to eventually be able to use AI technology on descriptions, where a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the description. New Financing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2018

McDonald’s will open 200 restaurants in the Nordic region over the next 10 years, as well as begin home deliveries this year in an attempt to take on rivals, such as Taco Bell and Yum! McDonald’s currently serves 150 million customers each year in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland from its estimated 430 restaurants in the region.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s. Role of Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on retailers is obvious as companies report plummeting sales, but the pandemic has also delivered a blow to the middlemen, which include makers of apparel and accessories, The Wall Street Journal reported. Typically, retailers have 30 days to pay for products provided on credit. Others, such as J.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rapid consolidation in the banking industry is creating a growing band of regional banks that find themselves stuck in a solution provider market that isn’t fully capable of serving them. FIS has captured a dominant share in the regional banking space with its IBS core platform (formerly Metavante).

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some reasons why retailers were so successful this past holiday shopping period: Preparation at its Finest. Enabling inventory visibility and optimization, and scaling across fulfillment centers helped these retailers to address the surge in online demand and scale appropriately to enhance system performance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Some retailers might be taking that to heart in this new year as part of the larger and ongoing effort to breathe new life into brick-and-mortar retail — a struggle that has been around almost as long as “The Simpsons” has, in fact. And other retailers are turning to alcohol to increase the appeal of their physical offerings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Times change, tastes expand and brands that don’t evolve generally don’t survive – a lesson that any number of retailers have spent the last several years learning the hard way. But even by the rapidly shifting standards of their vertical, Japanese retail apparel brand Uniqlo is, well, unique.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Visa, the payments company, announced Tuesday (October 23) a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil. Visa said its investment in Conductor is part of the payment company’s global strategy to open up the Visa ecosystem and support a broad array of new partners.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, David Weidner, senior director of Pelion Market Development at Arm , said that that data combined with machine learning (ML) is the key for retailers to build personalized shopping experiences across physical and online settings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans. The retail sector is among the largest employers in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The problem with contemporary physical retail, according to Fourpost Founder and CEO Mark Ghermezian, is that it has simply failed to keep pace with direction and push of modern retail. And Triple Five Group has long been a proponent of experiential retail — far longer than it has been fashionable buzzword in the industry.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. It’s one approach to a growing retail vacancy issue that local governments are getting more aggressive in trying to solve. Backers of the tax position it as a solution to the increasing amount of empty retail space in the city.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Companies and sectors worldwide are encountering the economic effects of the coronavirus as it spreads throughout the globe. Three quarters — or 75 percent — of companies in a poll noted they sidelined trips to Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and other places in the Asia-Pacific region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

When the chapter is finally written on business during the COVID-19 crisis, there will be stories of the companies that simply fell victim to the virus through no fault of their own. Then there will be the companies that saw chaos and brought order, and made the best of a disaster. So far, NatureBox is in the latter category. “I

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

parts of the business in other regions are still active and purchase goods as well as pay royalties to Tru Kids. Now, the company is looking to restart the brand in places such as the U.S. The news comes as Toys R Us is going strong in Asia, where there are plans to open 60 new locations throughout the region this year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We are a tech company that sells food,” Vega said. But he said that since the region’s average monthly income is less than $400, “we knew if we wanted to go massive, we would have to go downscale.”. What we're seeing is a shift toward more credit cards and debit cards, but also an explosion of the FinTech companies,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

percent, and to a lesser extent companies such as Walmart, off 1.7 One benchmark of retail trading, the S&P 500 Retailing index, was off by 3 percent. At least some analysts on the Street see some even rockier performance as many retailers are on tap to deliver earnings results. percent in intraday trading.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

With eCommerce enabling global reach for most retailers, keeping track of all the moving parts can be a difficult feat. As such, many companies are turning to the world of automation to help keep everything in check. NICE EMEA President John O’Hara detailed how this new business partnership will work together. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. With those challenges in mind, StyleSage seeks to help brands and retailers through its competitive intelligence tool that works across four areas: pricing, assortment building, trends and promotions. Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

retailers (or any foreign players) to establish a strong presence in the Chinese market. It is unclear how those numbers will look going forward, however, nor how significant trade agreement overhauls could affect the plans of companies such as…. The boutiques will reportedly reflect the company’s U.S. The Children’s Place.

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