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PSCU Taps New Leaders To Advance Products, Innovation

PYMNTS

PSCU has appointed Denise Stevens as senior vice president and chief product officer, while Scott Young will head the product delivery leadership team as vice president of innovation, PSCU announced today (Feb. Stevens will oversee product delivery and management, as well as its innovation teams. Young will report to Stevens. “We

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Today In Retail: Bed Bath & Beyond Completes Sales Of Cost Plus World Market; Starbucks To Help Out Washington State With Vaccine Distribution

PYMNTS

In today’s top retail news, Bed Bath & Beyond said it has finished its sale of Cost Plus World Market (CPWM) to a private equity firm, while Starbucks will help Washington state with the distribution of coronavirus vaccines. announced that it has completed its sale of Cost Plus World Market (CPWM) to Kingswood Capital Management.

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Report: Washington Post’s Arc Publishing On Delivering Digital Payments Choice

PYMNTS

The trouble then becomes how to maintain and manage payment systems that use multiple payments integrations at once. Many businesses use payment integrations to flexibly build their web presences, but separately managing these myriad integrations can sap time and burn through resources.

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Square Partners With Washington Nationals To Offer In-Seat Concessions

PYMNTS

Payments company Square has partnered with the Washington Nationals and Levy Restaurants to let fans order concession menu items right from their seats, according to reports. Fans can use the Square-owned Caviar app and the Square POS terminal to order everything from food to beer and wine while enjoying the game from the stands.

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Can AI assist in vendor management challenges?

Independent Banker

And yet, some industry experts have observed that AI is not yet being used to its full advantage in vendor management—one of the thornier problems that community banks are wrestling with today. If a community bank has just a handful of vendors, managing those vendors is fairly straightforward. AI and innovation.

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Amazon, Home Depot Eye Fulfillment Innovations As Same-Day Delivery Race Heats Up

PYMNTS

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. And beyond this warehouse news, the eCommerce company is also experimenting with other – perhaps sexier – shipping innovations. That’s the story involving Amazon (and, it seems, The Home Depot as well).

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Banks around the country respond to coronavirus

Bank Innovation

WaFd, formerly Washington Federal Bank, is offering interest-free lines of credit of up to $200,000 to small businesses as a result of the pandemic. As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, rattling the economy, banks are reevaluating their business propositions to clients.?

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