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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Fresh off the 2015 ABA Marketing and Retail conference in Denver, we have a very long Evernote page of ideas, inspirations, thoughts and tactics.

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MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was well attended, with broad representation from all institution sizes and markets. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. This requires additional spending.

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MAY 11, 2020

Speaking at a virtual conference about the future of money, European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Yves Mersch said a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer. “A However, a retail CBDC, accessible to all, would be a game-changer, so a retail CBDC is now our main focus.”.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. Stores As Social Centers.

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JUNE 6, 2017

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is underway this week, and as expected, there are several announcements that have started to be unveiled. 50 percent | peer-to-peer Apple Pay Amount of retailers Apple expects to implement its new by the end of the year. 5K | Apple’s new iMac Pro’s monitor quality.

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JUNE 6, 2017

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is under way this week, and as expected, there are several announcements that have started to be unveiled. 50 percent | Peer-to-peer Apple Pay ; amount of retailers Apple expects to implement its new payment method by the end of the year.

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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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MARCH 18, 2020

Retailers around the world are shutting their doors or reducing hours in an attempt to slow the spread of the fast-moving coronavirus, according to reports on Wednesday (March 18). Disney shuttered its resorts and theme parks as well as its retail stores. Abercrombie & Fitch is closing all its stores, including its Hollister brand.

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APRIL 17, 2019

The race to 5G retail is on. Recent news out of Asia serves as solid foreshadowing of how 5G could enhance retail in the coming few years. 5G Retail Plans. South Korea’s SK Telecom and retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group have joined forces on 5G retail, for instance.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 16, 2015

If it’s October, it must be conference season. annual client conference. After Nashville, it’s been back-to-back trips to Las Vegas for the Amazon Web Services re:Invent developers conference followed by the Bankers Administration Institute’s Retail Delivery Conference. Back to Vegas.

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MARCH 18, 2020

retail sales declined last month in the biggest drop in a year. And retail sales , with the exclusion of fuel and automobiles, fell 0.2 Numbers from this month forward are likely to indicate a negative impact on many verticals, with the cessation of restaurants, sports and conferences. percent following a decrease of 0.2

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APRIL 9, 2020

It seems like a year ago, but it was actually only March 8 when discount retailer Burlington announced that it was abandoning its admittedly watered-down eCommerce offering. On one hand, the best way to get people in stores and avoid the fate of other brick-and-mortar retailers was to make online sales the only option.

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APRIL 29, 2020

New developments are focusing on supply chain, government activity and infrastructure to improve the customer experience as post-pandemic retail finds its legs. Retailers that sign up for the new program will receive discounts of up to 40 percent on FedEx Ground and 50 percent on FedEx Express services.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

After investing in over 800 firms, Chinese tech company Tencent Holdings said it would bolster its international investments and in industries like “smart retail.” However, with the development of Tencent’s WeChat mini-app ecosystem and payment platform, we will pay more attention to smart retail and payment platforms in future.”.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

An idea that may get a splash of cold water is that the development of a digital fiat (at least, in Australia) would lead to a groundswell of payments at the retail point of sale — in other words, through a boost in use cases. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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MAY 31, 2016

Spring is usually the season for conference travel, and this season has been no exception. The fine warm weather was not the only thing that these two conferences had in common, as Temenos and FIS each took the opportunity to showcase their recent investments in new enabling technologies.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

As evidence mounts that more consumers are doing more commerce from the comfort of their homes, there are also big changes when it comes the retail involved in that comfort — that is, home furnishings. Here’s the basics of how this furniture retail model works. That’s not all that’s going on in the world of furniture retail in 2020.

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JULY 31, 2019

said Wednesday (July 31) it is considering retail investment as it looks to keep stores in the black, according to CNBC. “I I think it’s very possible — we’re going to be very smart about it,” Simon CEO David Simon said on a post-earnings conference call. retailers so far this year than in all of 2018.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Wells Fargo executives laid out plans to move beyond the fake accounts scandal during a conference call with roughly 500 senior executives in which the bank said growth in the retail banking business will likely be down.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is carrying more weight in retail these days, helping merchants to innovate and win over consumers, and even serving to tie together web, mobile and in-store experiences as part of the focus on omnichannel commerce. That’s where RFID technology can also help with retail. Treasure Hunt.

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Chris Skinner

JANUARY 13, 2017

In case you missed it, there was an important keynote speech by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at a conference in France last Friday. Keynote speech … The post 2017 – a decisive year for retail payment services in Europe appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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MAY 1, 2019

While the CEO of the country’s biggest mall owner thinks that retail store closures will slow down this year, he added that he “can’t guarantee it.”. “I I think most of the bad news is behind us,” Simon Property Group CEO David Simon told analysts on a post-earnings conference call Tuesday (April 30), according to CNBC.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

How many consultants go to banking conferences and attend the sessions? As a bank consultant, I attend many conferences. Many, many conferences. Or pulling up to conference venues thinking. So was the case at the ABA Conference for Community Bankers. At least one! So many that I wake up in hotels wondering.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Guidance matters, in other words, and gauging how companies and their stocks are, and will, fare comes in part by mulling the guidance given on quarterly conference calls, in earnings reports, in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and at conferences. That may portend a bit of bumpiness for retailers like Target.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 20, 2018

Mary Hines, the global head of rewards for Citi, is scheduled to give the opening keynote for the conference.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

million fine against Mastercard for its swipe fees, which regulators said drove up prices for retailers and consumers, and hampered competition. Now, European retail groups want that to change. Reports in PaymentsCompliance noted dissatisfaction among retail communities in the U.K.

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MAY 20, 2016

A panel discussion at the ShopTalk conference in Las Vegas focused on the issues merchants face today as it relates to the mobile customer experience.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

In the past several years, it's become commonplace at industry conferences for executives to point to a handful of retail mobile experiences financial institutions should try to emulate to some extent. How should banks adapt to these kinds of expectations?

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Everyone needs furniture and home furnishings, and that need is helping to drive innovation in that sector of the retail economy. Indeed, augmented reality (AR) and other visual technologies can be seen as a progression from the earlier days of eCommerce, from all those photos, images and videos placed on retail websites.

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MARCH 4, 2020

That’s one of the conclusions drawn from a new report on customer loyalty from Merkle, and it holds some clues for retailers looking to improve the recency and frequency of customer visits and purchases. “To The connected consumer wants to feel more connected. That means selling items through their virtual and physical stores at a fair price.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. The vast majority of retailers believe in trying new business approaches.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s a tale of two kinds of brick-and-mortar retailers amid the rise of eCommerce: Some traditional department store chains like JCPenney and Macy’s are shuttering stores, as some retailers with other business models are more than surviving. TJX, the owner of off-priced retailers like T.J.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Months after Toy R Us sought to liquidate its holdings in the United States, merchants have taken up space left behind by the toy retailer. The news comes months after it was reported that retailers in the hobby and off-price segments may fill some of the larger empty, big-box spaces left behind by the closure of Toys R Us stores.

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MAY 29, 2018

American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces — Tencent and JD.com. Walmart , for example, brought a small-format supermarket to the city of Shenzhen as the popularity of “small retail” grows in China. Ralph Lauren.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

For a glimpse at how innovation is playing out in the retail world, it always helps to take a look at recent developments in the world of quick-service restaurants, or QSRs. Digital technology and delivery helped to fuel that growth, according to company officials on the post-earnings conference call with analysts and investors.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 11, 2018

Attendance at American Banker’s Digital Banking conference has grown significantly since I was here in 2016, reflecting the obvious interest levels in digital, yet the vibe remained largely the same as two years ago…. If 2016’s conference was the “mobile” conference, 2018 was most definitely the “voice” conference.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

We’re smack in the middle of conference season and the team has been traveling all over the world. In only its fourth year this new conference had to move to a new venue so that it could avoid running afoul of the fire marshal. Given the excitement around the payments ecosystem, we think it will be an exhausting whirlwind of a week.

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