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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

14) that German retailer Metro AG is looking to offload its Real hypermarkets via sale, and the firm, said Reuters , “remains confident” of a transaction. Metro has said it wants to train its sights on its wholesale business. Metro said it has had interest from a number of parties, Reuters reported Friday.

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JUNE 2, 2017

3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even more restaurants. On Wednesday (May 31), McDelivery with UberEATS launched at locations in the New York Metro Area, Fresno, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Additionally, the smartphone market is getting saturated.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced on Wednesday (April 10) that delivery of Whole Foods Market products via Prime Now has been expanded to nine more cities. Amazon also said it has expanded its grocery pickup to Whole Foods Market in Columbus, Ohio. metros, with plans to expand further this year. Sources told Yahoo!

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

According to reports , the entrance of Hello into China’s carpooling market pits it against Didi Chuxing, the leading ride-hailing company, which – under the direction of the government – has halted its service over safety concerns. In addition to investing in technology startups, Alibaba has also set its sight on the physical retail market.

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Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Market participants warn that a known vulnerability in telco operations could prove problematic for banks using one-time passwords (OTP) to authenticate transactions, once PSD2’s SCA deadline rolls around in September. Earlier this month, Metro Bank was hit by fraudsters exploiting the.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

.’s Banking Competition Remedies has awarded the first batches of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s $1 billion fund to competing banks in an effort to boost competition in the market, particularly for small to medium-sized business (SMB) services. But the awards are likely to stir up more debate.

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PYMNTS

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. They will also visit the headquarters of Target in Minnesota and METRO’s Accelerator headquarters in Berlin.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

challenger bank Tide is closing in on surpassing the market share of competitor The Co-Operative Bank , reports in AltFi said this week, highlighting the traction that new market entrants are gaining. s small business banking market. Tide’s current customer count means it has 1.5 percent of the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Revolut is set to appoint Metro Bank executive David MacLean as its new chief financial officer. He has served as the finance director at Metro since 2016, and will remain on board until October while it searches for his replacement. MacLean will join Revolut later this year, pending regulatory approval.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The bank only operates physical branches in nine states, which limits its ability to attract deposits. investments, Santander aims to establish a new online portal with better money market rates than Wall Street banks, Powell said. Santander’s $145 billion U.S. Santander’s car loans, however, are offered through dealerships nationwide.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

The free service, called Lavka, stocks roughly 2,000 items and plans to operate as a digital convenience market for items like toothpaste and condoms. In the beginning, Yandex got its grocery items from the retailer Metro AG. The biggest rivals to Yandex in the supermarket delivery space are Utkonos and Perekrestok.ru.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

14) that Dispatch, its service that enables restaurant operators to offer delivery, is now operating nationwide across most major metro areas, as well as smaller suburban and rural markets. Postmates operates the largest on-demand delivery platform in the U.S. announced on Wednesday (Sept.

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Perficient

JULY 31, 2020

Expand access to all clinical specialties virtually, deploying a clinical operating model that seamlessly provides both virtual and physical care as needed/demanded. Many metro areas have a handful of potential health care systems for a consumer to choose from. Today, we turn our attention to: The FOURTH COMMITMENT.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The private-equity backed operator of Houlihan’s restaurant chain has filed for bankruptcy protection. There is already a deal in place to sell Houlihan’s to restaurant operator Landry’s for $40 million, as well as the assumption of some liabilities, according to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday (Nov.

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TrustBank

JUNE 3, 2021

If you are looking to buy a house, you have likely observed that the real estate market is very competitive, with increased bidding activity leading to higher prices. One reason that the real estate market is so hot is that there is very low housing inventory available. Prices have continued a very strong increase thus far in 2021.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The Reis data monitors 77 metro areas and indicates that 9.4 There have been indications of trouble in local retail property markets as landlords prepare for store closures after Forever 21 ’s bankruptcy. percent of units were empty in Q3, “equaling a post-financial crisis high reached in 2011,” according to the report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Metro Bank is in the midst of fallout related to an accounting error, while TBS is under investigation following a botched IT project, reports said. The front-runner expected to receive the largest portion of the funds is now CYBG, which recently acquired Virgin Money and operates the Clydesdale Yorkshire brand.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

14) that Atom Bank, Currencycloud, Modulr and Iwoca have secured a portion of the £775m allocated from RBS as a government mandate to support competition in the market. Previous winners of RBS funds have included Metro Bank, Starling Bank, ClearBank, Nationwide Building Society, Investec Bank and The Co-operative Bank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ratelt operates as a real-time customer experience management platform, according to reports. The company has expanded from Australia to southeast Asia and clients include Lego, Metro, Pandora and others. ShopKirana. The firm, Infra.Market, raised the money in seed funding from Accel.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Delivery companies Point Pickup , Skipcart , AxleHire and Roadie will make deliveries in metro areas across four states, with further expansion planned in the coming weeks. Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. Customers love our Grocery Delivery service.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Azimo says it has received a license from the Dutch Central Bank to operate in the Netherlands, Cubic Transportation Systems has notched a contract for a mobile ticketing system in Ireland , and Bear Market Coffee in Ireland has gone cashless. Coverage includes Mexico ‘s Banco BASE selecting Volante Technologies Inc.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Senior Vice President of Digital Operations Tom Ward said in a blog post , “Through it, w e aim to learn more about how we can take advantage of self-driving vehicles to deliver fresh groceries – hand-picked by our personal shoppers – to customers.”. Walmart U.S.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In my frequent conversations with clients across the UK and Irish banking industry, one of today’s hottest topics is the rise of the challenger banks such as CYBG, Metro and AIB UK, and particularly the neo-challenger banks providing digital-only services, like Monzo, Atom and Starling. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Macy’s, Best Buy and Kohl’s have all recently stepped up same-day delivery options that were in testing mode to full-scale operations in some locations. However, of late, its expansion has been rapid, and it is now in 17 major metro markets. Baltimore markets.

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JUNE 17, 2019

And there are plans to expand the service to additional markets in the coming months, including Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand. said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Owner Triple Five Group is forecasting 40 million visitors yearly after the East Rutherford mall is fully in operation. And, in the event it attracts just a small portion of that traffic, it could mean bad news for some of the nine shopping centers in the vicinity that are vying for the flushest residents of the New York metro area.

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JUNE 12, 2019

To learn more about how these incubation efforts work and the benefits they can bring, PYMNTS recently caught up with Chris Ostoich, co-founder of LISNR, a company taking part in the METRO Target Retail Accelerator , certified by Techstars. Other Efforts.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Companies like American Tile & Stone and Premier Packaging have already begun using Uber Freight to improve their shipping operations, and we’re excited to now roll out the platform widely to our freight community,” the company wrote in the blog post.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

When Amazon launched Prime Now delivery for groceries out of its Whole Foods Marketpalce subsidiary, the company turned some heads — and heard some minor complaints, since the service was only initially only available in four markets: Virginia Beach, Austin, Dallas and Cincinnati.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

The bank will be launched by Recognise Financial Services, founded by Jason Oakley, the former managing director of Metro Bank ’s commercial and mortgages lending business. With this latest round of funding, Recognise will bolster its team and develop its operating model before the bank’s official launch. “We

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MARCH 12, 2019

.’s efforts to inject competition in the small business banking and financial services sector have culminated in a range of initiatives, from the bank referral scheme to strengthen the position of alternative lenders in the market, to the RBS fund that sees rivals and industry newcomers securing financing to improve their services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region. Fellow fast food chain KFC , meanwhile, is adding automation to its kitchen operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland. New restaurant models are also being tested in other markets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Waving their card at a terminal as they keep right on running for the bus is going to end much better than having to stop and pay cash or to load up their closed-loop metro transit card. But for public transit operators — the wins are as obvious as the commuter wins. Major metros in the U.S. Major metros in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

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. We are pleased to invest in the company at this point of accelerated growth and, as they expand, to additional markets across the nation.”.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Additionally, the smartphone market is getting saturated.

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