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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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MARCH 12, 2020

There is never a good time for the emergence of a global disease, of course, but certain periods are markedly worse than others. The company also set up a multi-million-dollar subsidy program to reduce operating costs and capital risks for their merchants, in an effort to help them get back to work safely and efficiently.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. More Innovation. Some 15 percent of the U.S.

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JUNE 12, 2019

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. Science and invention are collective pursuits. The basic idea behind LISNR is to send data securely via audio. Customer Journey.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Morgan’s EMEA Head of Wholesale Payments Shahrokh Moinian, technological innovation is helping to unlock more opportunities for corporate treasurers to step up to this newfound strategic role of mitigating risk within their organizations. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P. Bill Marvin , CEO at J.P.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Ignoring, of course, that in its first months as a publicly traded company, Facebook lost about half of its market value and struggled to convince investors for more than a year of its ability to skate to where the puck was going — mobile.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But since it’s the data point that most use to define the online/physical retail sales split, let’s use it to project, based on historical trends what the world looks line in twenty years. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Uber’s Move.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. According to a report from CNBC , “in many ways, Verishop aims to be a high-end and online version of a department store. The challenge, of course, is significant. High-End Retail.

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JUNE 21, 2019

After all, college is not only a place where many young men and women learn who they really are, but where operators of commerce, big and small, often find their next lucrative ideas. Mobile Innovation. Students have had to make tough choices when presented with their course material,” Markson said.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One of the key reasons for the complicated relationship – the term “frenemies” comes to mind – is that FinTech newcomers are demonstrating innovative approaches to traditional banking practices, including financial management services and money transfers, while older banks tend to be wedded to older systems.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The eCommerce operator recently announced that it is launching its Off-to-College store, geared toward college students and all of their shopping needs — be it furnishing a dorm room or purchasing class supplies. Students have had to make tough choices when presented with their course material,” Markson said.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Carro, which operates in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia, said more than $500 million worth of vehicles were sold last year on its platform, up from $250 million in 2017 and $120 million the year before.”.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The acquisition aims to help McDonald’s improve order-taking operations in its drive-thru facilities by implementing voice-recognition technology to help customers navigate increasingly complex quick-service restaurant (QSR) menus. Using cameras and software to recognize license plates is nothing new, of course. Role of Cameras.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The real estate industry is a popular target for FinTech innovators, particularly when it comes to new services and products that target renters and homeowners. The opportunities of real estate FinTech are vast, and innovation is far from slowing down, according to Ian M. Back-Office Innovation. ” The Data Opportunity.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Connected devices are becoming ingrained in consumer shopping habits: More than 50 percent of shoppers made online purchases in seven of 13 product or service categories in the past seven days, according to the PYMNTS How We Will Pay Report , while 20 percent went online with mobile apps to buy food to eat at home.

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MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. Another issue is attached to this recent news: Searches – specifically, product searches, which help drive online commerce. YouTube Concerns.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. There was one wholesaler for every 43 mom-and-pop operations. Lower prices. A&P destroyed A&P.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

To that end, Ken Gavrity , head of enterprise payments at KeyBank , told Karen Webster that companies must re-examine the most basic operations in order to stay afloat and maybe even thrive – or face existential threats as they mull the great digital shift. Tech helps, of course, but innovation alone won’t solve corporates’ problems.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

But for payments, the new year will dawn with a combination of disruption and innovation. But the pandemic has starkly illuminated the need for flexibility, especially in verticals where online spend has been strong and where commerce has shifted to online channels from brick-and-mortar foot traffic.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Substitute producer for buyer or supplier. Consumer for the end user.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Selling fast food these days is not exactly for the faint of heart, given how the industry faces extreme — and increasingly online — competition for the consumer dollar. QSR Innovation. But don’t expect that to be the end of it when it comes to fast-food competition, of course. The latest? The Carl’s Jr.

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JULY 6, 2017

The Tower holds, retrieves and dispenses online orders by scanning a barcode displayed on the customer’s smartphone screen. It requires no employee direction at all and, of course, no in-store shopping. The Pickup Tower basically works like a huge, high-tech vending machine for online order pickup.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Online grocery shopping went to the moon from March to May, with PYMNTS’ Navigating COVID-19 series recording a 400 percent increase, equating to $6.6 billion in online spend. Smaller independent grocers have been forced to scramble to ramp up their digital services as the grocery market migrates online, however.”.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Big online eCommerce, gig economy or other merchants “tend to have a lot of different payment services that they use,” he told PYMNTS in an interview. Companies then, of course, have the operational side of the costs and the associated headcount. FinTechs, such as Modo, handle the technology and the data security issues.

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JULY 11, 2017

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where there is a problem and a person with the tools to solve it. Anyone can have a good idea,” Lowthers said; innovation is about what you do with it. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The recently released Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , a Kount and PYMNTS collaboration, digs deep into how the consumer experience and consumer engagement are guiding the pizza chain’s newest efforts to innovate in the QSR space. First, a few broad points — data that helps define the context in which Domino’s is operating and innovating.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

At a time of increased consumer use and acceptance of the new COVID-era digital lifestyle, the pressure is mounting on large, legacy lenders to accelerate their innovations – or become obsolete. unveiled its next generation of operating software for ATMs, designed to integrate the now decades-old cash-dispensing machines into the digital age.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”. Digital Progress.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. They really hadn’t been very innovative around that franchise for a long time.”. Of course, the actual end user — the business — plays perhaps the biggest role in determining whether a market like the U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The recently released Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , a Kount and PYMNTS collaboration, digs deep into how the consumer experience and consumer engagement are guiding the pizza chain’s newest efforts to innovate in the QSR space. First, a few broad points — data that helps define the context in which Domino’s is operating and innovating.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Content creators are responsible for staggering amounts of output, providing the essential images, music tracks and videos that make online consumption possible. Its disbursements are completely online and allow creatives to opt how they would like to be paid. The whole [disbursements] process now is set up for self-service,” he said.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Providing Payer Certainty. “Consumers want that kind of clarity and certainty.”

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JANUARY 20, 2021

That includes anniversaries in the payments space, of course. Generally speaking, that data sharing paves the way for a streamlined banking experience, especially over online and mobile conduits, via regulated providers. Anniversaries offer a moment to pause and reflect, and look back on what’s past and what’s to come. Last week, Jan.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of those changes involved industry powerhouse and innovator Airbnb. try to untangle the Brexit knot, the high-profile sharing economy operator is moving its E.U. processing operation out of the U.K. Of course, that’s not all going on the travel world, though this Airbnb move promises to be influential. Travel Growth.

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