PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. According to a new study from the National Restaurant Association and Technomic, 22 percent of consumers used kiosk ordering last year. Contactless Payments.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: The overlap of retail with financial services, and reflections on the National Retail Federation annual conference in New York; Visa’s acquisition of Plaid and what it means […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Like this one.

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BankInovation

JANUARY 29, 2021

Innovation in the financial industry is now an expectation. A bank that focuses too heavily on digital innovation can see its budgets run thin, and its customers become overwhelmed. However, for small and mid-size financial institutions, this can be a fine line to negotiate.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79

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Payments Dive

APRIL 5, 2018

One of the best-attended educational sessions at the recent National Automatic Merchandising Association show in Las Vegas focused on how payment technology innovations — namely mobile payments — are impacting customer expectations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As retailers reopen and take stock of new post-pandemic consumer dynamics, the role of industry trade groups is changing. Groups like the National Retail Federation (NRF) focused more on economic forecasts and supply chain issues as other advocacy groups that have taken the fight for more stimulus dollars to Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Even so, 62 percent of customers said innovations would make them more inclined to visit QSRs in the future, according to the latest PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index. Chipotle’s Digital Gains.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained. All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In today’s top retail news, FedEx Corp. The service connects more than 100 brands and retailers to shoppers. Save A Lot Sells 51 Retail Locations To Fresh Encounter. Save A Lot, the discount grocery retailer, revealed the sale of 51 stores operated by the firm in the Tampa, Florida market to Fresh Encounter.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 31, 2019

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank has applied for a national bank charter as it expands its suite of products and services. On Thursday, the bank said it had filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to convert from an Ohio state-chartered bank to a national bank.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 19, 2017

But the most significant revelation from the company’s earnings call yesterday may be that digital banking allows any bank to become national. Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is making a significant digital push this quarter, and highlighted a number of areas this is benefiting the bank’s consumer business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Out of the haze of uncertainty emerged a new mobile network, and from the new mobile network came new retail applications and experiences, all taking advantage of the faster speed of the technology, and the potential to reduce friction. 5G Retail Deal. 5G Retail Deal. VR Retail Growth. A new report also says the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 19, 2019

BMO Harris Bank is expanding the scope of its in-house accelerator from a local to a national program. The Chicago-based bank is accepting applications from fintech startups for the 2019 BMO Harris/1871 Innovation Program through the end of the day today. Ben Schack, Head of U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Applebee’s has announced that it has partnered with DoorDash for national delivery, the company said in a press release. This latest Applebee’s Delivery innovation allows our neighbors to enjoy their favorite Applebee’s dishes wherever they are,” said Scott Gladstone, vice president of strategy, off-premise and development at Applebee’s.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

He said retailers and service providers need to address such anxieties as they sketch out their digital and omnicommerce strategies and think about what new tech to put in place. As long as retailers focus on creating such safe spaces, he said, “the future is bright.”. And that is where a lot of stress is created.”. Gauthier said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

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. Alan Gottlieb, chief operating officer at Lerner Sports Group, said it was important for Nationals fans to get the most out of their ballpark experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These are some of the ways that innovators in the dining space are making it easier for consumers to order their favorite foods — and for restaurants to accept their orders: The projected value of online restaurant delivery sales by 2022, compared to $25 billion today, is $62 billion. The projected share of U.S.

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A focus on fintech innovation, open banking attainability, and year-over-year indicator growth marked Wednesday’s Q4 earnings call for the National Bank of Canada (NBC). The bank reported revenues of $7 billion, up 13% from the previous year. Total assets increased to $277.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Coverage includes The National Bank of Kuwait ’s rollout of SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) services with the help of ACI Worldwide. The National Bank of Kuwait has rolled out SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) services via the payments engine of ACI Worldwide, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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BankInovation

MAY 31, 2023

National Bank of Canada was selective in expense management in the second quarter, specifically in areas of headcount, technology investment and discretionary spending. THE BIG PICTURE: The bank continued digital innovation in the quarter following […]

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

All four companies — as well as other retailers — are fitting into the framework of a platform PYMNTS calls Digital 3.0 So far, retailers have done a decent job here. The retailers mentioned at the beginning of this piece have taken a stance on health that should have been taken by federal and local governments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

According to the National Turkey Federation (which really does exist) roughly 85 percent of Americans plan to eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table until Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. So is this innovation worth investigation?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The pandemic seems to have had a strong positive impact on participation in the entire sport of running,” Fleet Feet’s Director of Retail Experience Matt Werder told PYMNTS. Even now that its stores are open, the retailer has discovered that its eCommerce, curbside pickup and virtual fitting services remain popular with customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration What creates two out of three net new American jobs; produces close to half of our nation’s goods and services (nonfarm private GDP); and can be found, coast to coast, in every small town, big city and rural enclave? From May 1-6, the U.S. Tune in all week for live-streaming , beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Retailers have been testing out shelf-scanning robots to find out if they can handle restocking a store’s inventory when needed. Frederic McCoy, a senior vice president at Jabil Retail, a unit of Jabil Inc., whose Badger Technologies division created a data collection robot , calls it “optimizing the shelf.”

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

National Bank of Canada (NBC) is set to continue its digital innovation strategy through hiring technology-focused talent. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

Of all the banking institutions releasing Q2 earnings this week, watch for JPMorgan, whose strong performance can be credited to a growing millennial customer base and continued digital innovation. Digital innovation enhanced the company’s Q1 earnings performance, which surpassed analyst’s predictions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

According to the Making Instant Pay Global Playbook , public utility companies are innovating their payment methods to include online and mobile options to meet consumer demand and stay competitive. According to the May Unattended Retail Tracker , cash is still a very popular bill payment method in the U.S. Approximately 8.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Kicking off this week’s grocery tracker, Whole Foods Market (WFM) shares hit their highest level seen since the summer of 2015 as activist investor Jana Partners puts the squeeze on innovation and pressures the organic grocer towards a possible sale. Recovery has been slow for the national grocer since prices fell in February.

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