PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

the world’s largest healthcare company by revenue, has purchased DivvyDose, the Illinois-based online pharmacy startup, for about $300 million, sources told CNBC. CNBC reported giant retailers and health plans are acquiring online pharmacy startups as a way to make it easier for patients to access medicines. UnitedHealth Group Inc. ,

Online 198

Online Report Illinois Seattle 198

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As noted last week in the Deccan Herald , Amazon India Country Manager Amit Agarwal noted that the tax could hurt the small businesses it was designed to protect. Separately, Facebook has reportedly settled a lawsuit for violating laws in the state of Illinois tied to facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay a fine of $550 million.

Taxes 175

Taxes Illinois Study Operations 175

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

On the optimistic side Elliot Nassim , president of Mason Asset Management, which co-owns the University Mall in Carbondale, Illinois, says: “We have always felt that the retail industry is evolving, despite what doomsday headlines would have you believe.

NJ 132

NJ New Jersey Illinois Retail 132

CFPB Monitor

APRIL 11, 2022

The stipulated order requires the dealerships to pay $9,950,000 to the FTC to provide monetary relief to consumers, and $50,000 to the Illinois Attorney General Court Ordered and Voluntary Compliance Payment Projects Fund. In its press release , the FTC calls the settlement “a record-setting monetary judgment for an FTC auto lending case.”.

Illinois 78

Illinois Policies Lending Retail 78

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

As a result, of the eight million tons of food retailers throw away annually, the vast majority are fresh foods that spoiled before they were ever sold. That’s a lot of landfill space taken up, a lot of wasted resources and a massive economic loss for grocery retailers – totaling roughly $18 billion per year.

Retail 142

Retail Illinois Technology Maine 142

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Even the ways retailers package their items can make a difference in their taxes. This month’s Next-Gen Sales Tax Tracker examines these compliance complexities and their impact, as well as ongoing efforts to streamline how retailers can fulfill their obligations. Easing tax compliance helps governments and retailers alike.

Taxes 130

Taxes South Carolina Compliance Alaska 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

Kiosks are gaining more power in retail, especially as it becomes ever more obvious that consumers are not quite ready to cut ties with physical forms of buying, contrary to the early fever dreams of the eCommerce age. There are seven million family-run mom-and-pop stores that dominate retail outside big cities in China,” that analysis reads.

Marketing 158

Marketing Retail eBook Illinois 158

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In the old days, food courts had indistinguishable food,” said Jerry Storch, chief executive officer of global business and management advisory firm Storch Advisors. As a result, malls and shopping centers are offering more upmarket dining options. “In Now they have destination restaurants , [and] upscale and fine dining restaurants.

Illinois 136

Illinois Retail America Study 136

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Handelsbanken is reportedly among the top advocates in Europe for the importance of keeping brick-and-mortar locations and is renowned for its “church spire principle” through which an office manager should have the capacity to view all their clients from a tower’s apex. In the U.S., The bank indicated the decision would save a forecast $4.3

Pennsylvania 210

Pennsylvania Nashville Indiana Tennessee 210

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Similarly, Illinois is eying close to $400 million in new annual sales tax revenue on ecommerce items shipped into the state. A plan backed by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association places the burden on sales tax collection on the marketplaces, which will then settle up with the state Department of Revenue. Implementation.

Taxes 130

Taxes Alaska South Dakota South Carolina 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SMBs are also growing more concerned about payment speed as the pandemic continues, with a recent study revealing that 39 percent of SMBs are spending at least five hours each week managing payment-related issues. Another 39 percent of those surveyed said they had experienced problems related to payments’ speed within the past 12 months.

Illinois 195

Illinois United States Payments Trends 195

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Incontinent adults frequently become homebound and isolated, avoiding socializing or even visiting doctors if they do not have enough clean diapers, Adam Greenberg, president of incontinence products retailer NorthShore Care Supply , said in a separate PYMNTS interview. “If Managing compliance. Sales taxes’ price tags.

Taxes 146

Taxes Policies Compliance Retail 146

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A woman’s from Illinois. The issue, createdbyeric said, was escalated to higher management. Today I decided to change my iTunes credit card. I used the take picture feature. It read my card well, but then when I saved the card, someone else’s credit card was saved! That felt like I could steal their money any time.

Apple 193

Apple Security Report Payments 193

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Cash flow is thus still king, according to Caleb Benoit , founder of Illinois-based retail and wholesale coffee company Connect Roasters. Keeping cash flow steady, especially for an SMB or microbusiness, requires having swift and transparent means of managing incoming payments and disbursements.

US 241

US Illinois Payments Operations 241

PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

A year after General Growth Properties’ (GGP) Providence Place opened in 1999, the mall boasted 120 tenants, including a slew of upmarket retailers, seven restaurants and two cinemas. million square feet of space — and quickly became a hot retail destination. But, since then, renovations have opened up spaces for new retailers.

Hawaii 102

Hawaii Retail Connecticut Miami 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

retail locations as it moves to try and close the pricing gap with rival grocery peddlers (like Kroger) and discounters (like Aldi). And, according to first-hand observation by Reuters reporters in Iowa and Illinois, the price changes are alraedy going into effect. The move is widely expected to put pressure on packaged good suppliers.

Iowa 100

Iowa Arkansas Retail Illinois 100

Independent Banker

APRIL 28, 2016

Simply put, our board of directors has empowered a young, energetic, educated and motivated management team to make things happen. Retail locations: Three. The housing market in central Illinois has remained strong, and Goodfield State Bank has focused on residential real estate. Goodfield State Bank. Goodfield, Ill.

Marketing 70

Marketing Illinois Community Lending 70

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Not only do gift cards stand as the most popular holiday present, according to the National Retail Federation and other sources, but a Blackhawk Network survey found that “44 percent of consumers surveyed are interested in receiving a gift card to play the lottery, while 43 percent would be interested in giving a lottery gift card.”.

Ohio 103

Ohio Mobile Cards South Carolina 103

Independent Banker

JULY 1, 2015

More recently, the bank’s senior management team challenged the retail branch managers to develop staff-utilization strategies, including small-business development initiatives. As Ferguson notes, “Historically, branch managers weren’t necessarily required to solicit small-business banking opportunities.”.

Lending 70

Lending Community Illinois Management 70

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The company had strong management and was growing quickly, but as a young company, its historic cash flow did not support the proposed expansion. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas. million of their $5.1 million financing to the state.

Oregon 70

Oregon Illinois Community Bank Lending 70

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Volatile times make for sleepless nights for corporate executives, particularly those whose job it is to manage the cash positions of their organizations. He did that, among other things, by offering mobile phones to taxi drivers, and a better business model that put more money into their pockets.

Payments 134

Payments Illinois Guidelines Mobile 134

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Bloomberg reported that Amazon had considered a takeover of the chain last fall, experts speculate that Kroger is mulling a bid, and Boise, Idaho-based company Albertsons’ parent company Cerberus Capital Management may be in preliminary talks with bankers about making a bid of its own. and online retailers such as Amazon.

Idaho 100

Idaho Illinois Retail New York 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

and the largest in Illinois with more than 450,000 members and $11 billion in assets. One of the biggest challenges to Alliant’s digital-first strategy is the “ Amazon effect ,” named after the eCommerce giant that has been disrupting the retail space for 20 years. Does digital banking sacrifice personal touches?

social media 111

social media Millennials Illinois Strategy 111

Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Operations Retail 70

PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Melissa Libert of Bloomington, Illinois said she felt relieved when her son’s day camp announced it would not open this summer, saving her a difficult choice of whether to send him. But Libert did note that managing childcare without summer camp will be challenging.

New York 131

New York Alabama Illinois Guidelines 131

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, a girls’ soccer program at a regional high school in Illinois would be part of an entire athletic department order for the year. SquadLocker has also partnered with league management software SportsEngine , a division of NBC Sports, for the last three years. The uniforms were created and bulk shipped to the school.

Rhode Island 130

Rhode Island Software Community Illinois 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Meet Mousr , a little robot mouse that comes to the world care of three PhD students who met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Dojo’s base station sits between a modem and Wi-Fi router, and essentially becomes the network’s manager and firewall.

Security 134

Security Illinois Maine Comparison 134

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Perhaps to no surprise to community bankers, those include personal financial management (account aggregation), viewing credit card information, check reordering, account address changes, checking prepaid account balances and transaction history, international remittances and access to a brokerage account. Stop payment requests.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Perhaps to no surprise to community bankers, those include personal financial management (account aggregation), viewing credit card information, check reordering, account address changes, checking prepaid account balances and transaction history, international remittances and access to a brokerage account. Stop payment requests.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2016

Much has been written about those ultimately failed companies and whether their present-day descendants are fundamentally different (and better) because of mobile and the improvement in logistical management it inevitably brings with it. Why manage a warehouse in a city full of grocery stores and workers ready to grocery shop on-demand?

Software 100

Software Illinois Management Chicago 100

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. Is Mobile Fully Catching On?

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

HQ: Chicago, Illinois. Retail deposits platform. Digital wealth management platform. Employee expense reporting management. Mobile payments & personal financial management. Tags: Consumer, SMB, insurance management, employees, HR, benefits. Total raised: $111 million. HQ: San Francisco, California.

Fintech 12

Fintech Company San Francisco New York City 12

Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. Teaching people about wise money management is a key part of the Credit Builder Account program, Bynum says. “We Ed Avis is a writer in Illinois.

Community Bank 172

Community Bank Community National Philadelphia 172

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Nasdaq: OSBC) Old Second is a single-bank holding company headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. Today, NPL/total loans is a manageable 0.94%, and the Bank ROA/ROE year-to-date is 1.22% and 11.61% respectively. (Nasdaq: MBTF) #5. BNCCORP, Inc. OTCQX: BNCC) Here is this year's list: #1. Old Second Bancorp, Inc. In 2007, the Bank had $1.1

Minnesota 60

Minnesota West Virginia Virginia Iowa 60

CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

In 2015, Visa partnered with transaction management startup DocuSign on a proof-of-concept project that used blockchain to streamline car leasing — transforming it into a “click, sign, and drive” process. Supply chain management. Energy management . Sports management. Gift cards and loyalty programs.

blockchain 78

blockchain Industry Bitcoin Security 78

CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

Think of these AI-enhanced assistants as junior analysts (lawyers, journalists, etc) who never tire and who can process information beyond human capacity but who will still need the steady eye of a manager to make subjective judgments. Investment / Wealth Management. INVESTMENT / WEALTH MANAGEMENT. STATE OF AUTOMATION REPORT.

Software 75

Software Compliance Training Google 75

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Expense management solutions for small businesses. 401(k) management. Using the blockchain for managing records. Card rewards management. Tags: Enterprise, SMB, investing, wealth management, data. Secure messaging for financial services. HQ: Palo Alto, California. Latest round: $100 million. Source: Re/Code.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech New York 12