PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Online sportsbooks have been beneficiaries of that dictum ever since COVID-19 eradicated most live sports, leaving millions of fans and a great many bettors potentially mired in boredom. DraftKings signed a multiyear deal in 2019 to be an authorized NBA betting operator. How much potential does online gambling have?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

The following Deep Dive examines the interest in contactless payments among credit union members and the opportunity for the CU space to meet members’ changing payment needs through digital innovation. All indicators suggest that these trends are only likely to continue to grow, however. The High Stakes Of Offering Contactless.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. This intricate and evolving web of trends influences who consumers trust and how they prefer to conduct their financial lives. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? By William Atkinson. One such bank is $1.7 Jeff Versluys, One Community Bank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the three licenses was granted to Rakuten International Commercial Bank, which is operated by Japanese eCommerce firm Rakuten Inc and Taiwan’s IBF Financial Holdings. A license was also granted to LINE Financial Taiwan, led by Japanese app operator LINE Group.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's the beginning of a new year, and naturally new trends will take shape. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). Modesty aside, Shift is one of the prime examples of how innovation and shrewd management led firms like Vroom, Carvana and even more traditional companies to this point.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The pandemic has forced businesses to pivot quickly to continue their operations — both domestically and internationally — with relative ease as the health crisis affects everything from supply chains to payment schedules. They will need to continue innovating these processes to stay on top of shifting B2B trends worldwide.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. All of these changes we're seeing are the result of a few mega-trends," Moinian said. The other is technological innovation.

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PYMNTS

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. And those payments, at least in general, are following larger consumer trends when it comes to methods and technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As Larger Trends. Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. About one-quarter — or 26.8

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2016

No, really, just look at this list of most trending Twitter topics of the year (spoiler: elections, Brexit and PokemonGo all made the list). 2016 has been a year of many things. But the memories are still fresh of, possibly, the most meaningful event in the fintech world: the Comptroller Read More.

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PYMNTS

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. That’s the tech part.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

In other words, digital innovation has been slow to arrive in the service world, a point demonstrated by recent PYMNTS research in collaboration with AEVI, and a new PYMNTS interview with Nicky Koopman, SVP of content and value-added services at AEVI. They might not feel like it’s something that relates to them,” she noted. Calls vs. Emails.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 19, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — The year of 2017 has been marked with more than a few good and not-so-good trends: but we’ll stick to fintech.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. Larger Trends. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. Consumers are buying Tilly’s products online, as digital growth was up 22 percent in 2018. More Money.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Open banking initiatives are changing the way banks operate and engage with third parties and partners. The platform works to automatically generate invoices, allowing companies to accept online payments from corporate clients. Overall, these platforms are helping banks pursue API-based innovations — and much more. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

In the global world of eCommerce, said Wang, digital trends that had already started to emerge in the market – around decentralized work, remote communications and pushing global remittances, for example – are now mission-critical in the age of COVID-19. An Opportunity for Innovation . As a result, the company’s sales reached 44.73

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

We estimate that up to 25 percent of banks’ traditional cross-border payments revenue streams are at risk from these innovations. To help banks make sense of this fast-changing landscape, Accenture has identified ten payments mega trends from our 2017 North America Consumer Payments Pulse Survey.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. For more on this and other news in the platform economy, visit the Playbook’s News and Trends section.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It has been a year of innovations for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), with chains rolling out new digital technologies to help diners order and pay for food without having to wait in line. These are just some examples of how restaurant technology innovations powered convenient restaurant experiences this year: Online Ordering Expansions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

How do you navigate the constant churn of innovations or disruptors? As community banks hone their payments strategies in support of new innovations and market demands, returning to the core of what their customers need will help guide them in the right direction. Dive into payments trends. Photo by Jorg Greuel/Getty.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

For instance, why are there significant, revenue-draining gaps between what merchants think about payments innovation and what they actually do? Loyalty and Innovation. percent of health and beauty merchants cited customer loyalty as their reason to innovate, but only 35 percent of merchants said they’re prepared for it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. The aim is to stay on top of the latest digital commerce trends to remain relevant. However, both large players and upstarts are driving digital innovations in the health and beauty space. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

From giving sports and music fans a new way to buy tickets to the big game or sold out concert, to helping nonprofits raise more funds for their good cause, payment-powered online platforms have changed how payments are made today. In the U.S., Rethinking Rent Payments. That seems to be the hope of Zillow’s new competition.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This trend has prompted many fraudsters to follow in consumers’ digital footsteps, however. Fraudsters continue to innovate their attacks, and FIs’ defenses are growing more sophisticated to keep pace.

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