PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. Main Streets will have to change to receive the social proof and vibe that made them so successful. The rollout of Apple Pay has long been viewed as Apple’s attempt at supplanting shoppers’ utilization of tangible cards for in-store purchases as their main payment method.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

and five other nations identified 100 million potentially fraudulent transactions between March 11 and April 28, for example. The health crisis is also dramatically altering merchants’ approaches to customer engagement and interaction, leading many to shut down brick-and-mortar channels and devote their resources to online operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In regard to big national banks, or even regional banks, he said, that rule makes some sense. But for credit unions, particularly smaller credit unions, they often have a minimal geographic footprint, and targeting their ads to the specific ZIP codes they operate in isn’t an attempt at discrimination.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The pandemic’s onset triggered a mass migration of consumers to online channels to meet their everyday shopping needs, with merchants following suit. Los Angeles-based logistics online marketplace Cargomatic is one firm that saw supply chain conversion accelerate immediately with the pandemic-induced surge in online sales.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After Halloween comes the lucrative holiday shopping season — sorry, Thanksgiving, but you’re only a speed bump — but there are serious questions about how happy the fourth quarter will be for some big eCommerce operators. Online spending will increase nearly 15 percent compared with last year, reaching $124.1 retail websites.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

When a consumer places an order by voice, it comes through the same ordering channel that an online or mobile order would. The employee or wait staff wouldn’t know the difference between a voice or an online order. The company is targeting both regional and national businesses with a minimum of 10 locations.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better. Conclusion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Can Main Street SMBs Cross The PPP Cash Chasm? Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. Trackers And Reports. It might not be sufficient, however. Consumers are 30.6

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

The global tax reform is being prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It has been difficult to coordinate tax reform in the EU because there are many varying national interests. The plan would force big companies to pay a tax on data sales, online marketplaces and targeted ads.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. Those are among the main lessons from the latest report that helps to detail digital and mobile progress in the world of quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Sales Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

That’s because those threats are relatively localized, and don’t take into account the risk of hackers (especially those backed by organized militaries and nation-states) taking down key infrastructures. However, there is no seamless and efficient mechanism for that yet in the online world. Big Mindsets. Winning The Battle.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Shipt , the online grocery ordering and delivery service, has announced that it has secured $20.1 million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

“In this day and age, it is very important for community financial institutions to be able to compete with their main new competitors — challenger banks and national banks — and have access to the same technology that can be deployed in weeks, not years,” said Agora Services Founder and CEO Arcady Lapiro in a statement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

Lloyds will look to both of these providers to help it create digital banking tools for its customers that will allow it to compete with the rising number of online-only FinTechs and challenger banks grasping at established FIs’ market share in the United Kingdom. The bank has designated $3.7 billion of its funds for this effort.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

However, as more age-restricted products move online, robust and seamless digital age verification takes on more importance, a trend that promises to grow in the coming few years. That’s the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jason Hardy, chief operating officer at AgeChecker.Net. Reduce Sales To Minors. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

PayPal has spent much of the last year creating partnerships with many of the world’s more luminary players in the payments and commerce space, Apple, Samsung, Visa, Mastercard, Chase and Android is the abbreviated version of that list, as it executes on its post-IPO mission to build the global operating system for digital commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Chief Operating Officer Ro Bhatia told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Brands that are either expanding existing DTC operations or have only sold through a marketplace can use channels like Amazon without creating potential conflicts in their path to selling directly to consumers. Going DTC Without Creating Conflict .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

SMBs are too unfamiliar with alternative finance to turn to online players. Nearly half of the small business borrowers surveyed said the main reason they haven’t used a digital lender is because they are unfamiliar with them. For example, alternative finance in the U.K. Meanwhile, in the U.S., In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

The company had launched an online marketplace for 34 countries in the region last year and recently acquired a minority stake in the eCommerce solutions provider with which it collaborated on the effort. Visa is also putting focus on consumers in Africa. Find more about these stories and the rest of the latest headlines in the Report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

Due to new taxi laws in the country, Uber announced that it is shutting down its operation in Denmark next month. And last year, Danish prosecutors accused the company of operating an illegal taxi service, indicting it on charges of assisting its drivers — two of whom have also been fined — in breaking national taxi laws.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

Online gig work platforms have predictably been seeing more activity in recent weeks as the newly unemployed on one side, and overwhelmed business owners on the other, seek a new (if temporary) arrangement. Expect more ironies small and large as the nation at long last recognizes gig workers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Many nations in the region are thus examining their open banking proposals to ensure they address this behavior. The report also analyzes how such rules are likely to change in the next several years as the health crisis alters the region’s online banking adoption and digital payments volumes. Around The Data Protection World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. Not only that, but over the next decade, some 90 percent of sports bets will be made online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. Those are among the main lessons from the latest report that helps to detail digital and mobile progress in the world of quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Sales Trends.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. Those are among the main lessons from the latest report that helps to detail digital and mobile progress in the world of quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Woe to any QSR operation that ignores that lesson. Sales Trends.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

High transaction success rates can indicate an efficient payments operation, but keeping them high is no easy feat. This risk is even greater now that the pandemic has upended normal shopping behaviors, driving an increasing number of consumers online to shop and pay, with retailers having experienced a 14.8

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As PYMNTS noted in the Pandenomics report in early October, “the biggest change of all will likely be the share of consumers shopping for groceries online. percent of consumers who have shifted to grocery shopping online plan to maintain at least some and possibly all of their new digital shopping habits, meaning only 14.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The nation saw four startups take home investment out of a total of seven investment rounds. Wholesalebox said it will use the funds to expand operations into new markets and scale its technology infrastructure. Baoku Online. But the largest venture capital funding round went to an accounts payable automation firm in the U.S.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). Its goal was to capture the perspectives of small businesses with less than 500 employees across ten states.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. consumers since March. [1]. Take PayPal, for example. 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Not to ruin your holiday spirit, but let’s start this story with the cold and brutal truth: One of the largest risks that payments and commerce operators face in 2019 is being called to account by government officials, regulators or media about a failure to secure their organizations from cyberattacks. and other places.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The No More Ransom initiative was launched on July 25, 2016, by Kaspersky Lab, the Dutch National Police, Europol and Intel Security, introducing a new level of cooperation between law enforcement and the private sector to fight ransomware together. Currently, five decryption tools are available on the online portal.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Amazon really has no close competitors in the space: Even the marketplace operated by retail rival Walmart does not offer any such services. New Orleans artist Stephanie Kauffman, who operates a customizable candle business called Mose Mary and Me , is engaged in a debate with herself about whether to employ FBA. FBA and Candles.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And even though loyalty tends to focus on those consumers who are already, well, loyal — to a brand or chain or specific QSR operator — businesses in this sector can’t ignore such programs because, as Robbins told Webster, there is always a competitor looking to steal away customers. The main driver of all that?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Currently, the American department store chain’s main Chinese digital representation is a storefront on Tmall Global, a web shopping site for imported products operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Macy’s launched on Tmall last November.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

When the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) debuted earlier this month, it was heralded by some observers as a lifeline for small businesses that power Main Street in the United States. There’s certainly a movement of SMBs doing … well, something to preserve operations as the shutdowns spread out across almost all US states.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

At the same time, online food delivery increased nearly 15 percent between 2018 and 2019. It’s no wonder more than three-fourths (78 percent) of operators considered off-premises programs strategic priorities. . While drive-thrus can be a source of retail innovation , traditional operations aren’t what they used to be.

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