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OCTOBER 1, 2020

In merchant innovation, many retailers are in the middle of a journey to digitize operations and bolster sales. And in payment methods, a number of luxury merchants are turning to flexible payment solutions like buy now, pay later (BNPL) , as greater numbers of consumers move online. 100M: Minimum number of 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. Most often, our tech is used to power payments and to enable moments along the customer journey,” Ostoich said. Customer Journey.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

And nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated over the last decade than with the statistic that more than 90 percent of all retail sales took place at brick and mortar stores. It gave retailers the illusion that digital was the retail cart driven by the physical store horse. Testing Innovation .

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

New technologies bring new opportunities to serve consumers, and retailers are offering their customers more digital options than ever to meet their wants and needs. They are innovating to meet consumer demand for new payment methods , and to improve customer convenience through technologies such as kiosks.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 35 percent of retail businesses have experienced an increase in demand. Accelerating The Real-Time Payments Demand Curve: What Banks Need To Know About What Consumers Want And Need. 31 percent bank via app.

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JULY 11, 2019

Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. And payments plays a big role in all those efforts — even though many companies don’t yet to seem to realize how to get the most from transactions.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In retail logistics, eBay has expanded its integration with UPS to add new functions for selling and shipping. And the use of cash is dwindling amid a shift to digital payments, while Apple will reportedly roll out four new 5G phone models in October. consumer payments that are made with cash. All this, Today in Data.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As But we at Citcon believe it will also be marked as the year that prompted stunning innovation across industries. That digital glue is payments.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Retailers are getting smarter about artificial intelligence (AI), and the latest example of that innovative effort comes from Walmart. According to a new report , the retail chain, hoping to reduce checkout theft, is turning to cameras powered by AI, with deployments underway in some 1,000 stores.

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MARCH 20, 2019

For instance, why are there significant, revenue-draining gaps between what merchants think about payments innovation and what they actually do? Koopman and Karen Webster recently engaged in a discussion about how those gaps apply to a very specific but lucrative part of the retail landscape: the health and beauty product space.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is evolving. Big Retail.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. About the same share — or 60.9

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And in retail, companies in the organic mattress space are running on a tri-brid business model that covers direct to consumer (D2C), third-party retail distribution and owned retail locations. 75: Approximate number of countries in which payments firm Sokin offers payment cards. All, Today in Data.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

In " A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021 ," Nat Salvione, chief commercial officer of Tango Card , discusses the innovations that have emerged since the pandemic: specifically, the use of pay-ahead apps and remote team engagement. For an introvert like me there was always a moment of anxiety.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1 That’s because paper becomes the default method of payment when something goes awry — such as when banking credentials can’t be authenticated or identity cannot be verified.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – The two fundamental keys to most challenges retail banks and payment companies face on the innovation front are personalization and efficiency, according to Alberto Corvo, a founding partner at fintech focused investment firm Motive Partners.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Online marketplaces are connecting retailers, consumers and nonprofits amid the pandemic. 87%: Estimated share of debit cards that will be equipped for contactless payments by 2022. Data: $5.5M : Amount of funding recently secured by social impact commerce platform ShoppingGives. 92%: Portion of U.S.

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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. Contactless Payments. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation. It is all but certain that in the new decade, QSRs will continue to drive retail innovation.

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MARCH 17, 2020

To that end, Vincent Caldeira, chief technologist for FSI in APAC for Red Hat told PYMNTS, FIs — especially incumbent FIs — are facing rapid changes in payments that demand they modernize payments processing, embedding new functionality along the way. The Need For Standardization In Cross-Border Payment Processing.

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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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MARCH 21, 2019

There is a gap between what merchants say they want to do toward innovation and what they actually do — and from that gap come insights into retail and payments. A big payments acquisition, meanwhile, shines light on what the next commerce and transaction developments will look like.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

When Home Depot announced last month its plans to acquire HD Supply Holdings , it wasn’t just a sign of expansion for the home improvement retailer. According to Goldman Sachs, the B2B payments space will see volumes topping nearly $200 trillion by 2028, more than five times the volume of B2C payment flows.

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JUNE 10, 2020

In investments, retail dispute management firm Chargeback closed a funding round to speed up growth and to help retailers reduce credit card disputes. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. The company brought its app and device to market just two weeks ago. All this, Today in Data.

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JULY 22, 2019

Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets and CBD, two hot areas of commerce that are intersecting. Square , the digital payments company, for instance, is getting into the CBD market, launching a payment processing service for the industry.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. Apple isn’t the only band on the radio when it comes to changes in music retail in early 2020. Others don’t. New Partnerships and Services.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Amazon is reportedly testing a biometric payment system with a handful of customized vending machines for employee use. workers is engaged at some level with the gig economy, and most of them hope that instant and faster payments continue to grow in scope. In disbursements news, a sizable portion of U.S. All this, Today in Data.

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JULY 15, 2020

In the automotive arena, sellers have implemented third-party technology such as virtual retailing to enable a completely digital vehicle sales process. 57.9% : Share of credit-centric revolvers who are interested in payment plans for large purchases. 39%: Amount by which virtual retailing use increased in June.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

As part of those efforts, the lab is being used to explore “whether there is a role for a digital Australian dollar — that is, an Australian [central bank digital currency (CBDC)] — in the context of the bank’s responsibilities for issuing the currency and overseeing the payments system.”. The language is interesting — and noteworthy.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is carrying more weight in retail these days, helping merchants to innovate and win over consumers, and even serving to tie together web, mobile and in-store experiences as part of the focus on omnichannel commerce. That’s where RFID technology can also help with retail.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. The program, which is in its fourth year, is open to startups from the U.S. as well as other countries.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can a person’s ear serve as one of the next frontiers of retail innovation? News has recently emerged that a computer scientist has developed what Geek.com called a “novel way of unlocking your phone,” which, in turn, could one day find its way into retail uses as a new form of biometric authentication. China Example.

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MAY 16, 2019

That provides a rough idea of some of the motivation behind Mastercard ’s latest effort in payments and commerce innovation — an effort described in depth in a new PYMNTS interview between Karen Webster and Amnah Ajmal, Mastercard’s executive vice president of core products. Not Just A Number. FinTech Role.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment. The Invisible Innovators .

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JUNE 27, 2019

That sense of hope is a big part of childhood, and it applies as well to retail aimed as children, as least going by current developments involving Toys R Us. That news is another recent development in the world of children’s retail, where innovation continues. Retail Recommendations. Hope springs eternal. Market Void.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Retailers are under the gun to bolster their messaging and ordering capabilities for online shopping, as eCommerce becomes strained amid the coronavirus. Data: 30K: Minimum number of retailers that are alerted to theft by Indyme’s sensors and hardware. 42%: Share of retailers who cite concerns about consumer confidence.

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