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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Komal said that what distinguishes Zohr from other players is the proprietary in-house technology it has built to power the business. There are also a lot of busy working professionals and big corporate headquarters in both of those metro areas. It installs them, balances them and takes away old tires for recycling.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Nationwide tapped 10x Future Technologies , the FinTech startup founded by former Barclays boss Antony Jenkins, to help develop the new platform for the new business current account. Nationwide said in a statement that “timeframes for bringing elements of our proposition to market” would extend and had been “slower than expected.”

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Russia’s biggest technology firm, Yandex NV, launched an online service that uses bike couriers to bring groceries to Moscow residents in 15 minutes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Jan. 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has invested in Argentinian mobile banking startup Uala, according to a report from Reuters. It’s about learning from their experience in China and in other Asian markets to inform our Latin America strategy,” Barbieri told Reuters. The investment, he noted, will help to speed up Uala’s plans.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The December Order To Eat Tracker® highlights the latest technologies, innovations and collaborations that are altering the restaurant landscape from self-driving vehicles, car-side delivery models and other innovations. Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Coverage includes Mexico ‘s Banco BASE selecting Volante Technologies Inc. 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.

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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. Dispatch was launched late last year and is live in 60 major metro areas around the country. announced on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

LISNR uses ultrasound technology to provide a solution that lets merchants and payment providers accept mobile payment data anytime during the customer journey. The technology works with all types of purchase scenarios – including scan-and-go, store pickups and eCommerce – and can also be used for messages, authentication and identification.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 11, 2017

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. Their Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures released Distributed … bitcoin or ether: which currency will win? surveyed 2,000 consumers in the UK about their banking preferences.

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APRIL 9, 2020

housing market, which itself is poised to take a hit where no part of the U.S. The housing market depends on the sanguine attitude of the U.S. In many metro areas, listing volumes were down between high teens percentage rates to more than 40 percent. The quartet includes Zillow Group, Offerpad, Redfin and Opendoor Labs.

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NCR

APRIL 13, 2017

The coming months are set to be a busy time for the payments industry, as 2017 is expected to be a game-changing year as a range of new providers and technologies come to the fore. million) and £4 million upfront for access to the market. million ($3.12 million to £2.5

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PYMNTS

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. The funds will also enable the challenger bank to develop a digital small business toolkit, create jobs and invest £15 million into its own technologies and services.

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

In August, the company announced it was expanding Uber Freight into new markets across the country, as well as introducing personalized load matching. For these deliveries, Uber Freight takes care of the load sourcing, while the company’s Advanced Technology Group utilizes its self-driving trucks on the Uber Freight platform.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The technology, Visa’s Global Head of Urban Mobility Nick Mackie told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, was still in its most nascent stages of deployment — outside of Europe the contactless cards essentially didn’t exist, and within Europe 1 out of every 400 payments in Europe made via contactless. Major metros in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From North America to China, the concept is gaining ground around the world as retailers mull bringing the technology to multiple – even thousands of – locations. The projected value of the global self-service market by 2023 is $13 billion. In the U.S., The news comes as Amazon also launched an Amazon Go location in Chicago. “The

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William Mills

MARCH 8, 2018

Metro Atlanta has established itself as a major hub for the fintech (financial technology) industry. According to the American Transaction Processors Coalition, more than 70 percent of all payments on a global scale currently pass through companies headquartered in metro Atlanta, earning the city the moniker “Transaction Alley.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

At the time, the retailer said the 50th metro area for grocery delivery was in Akron, Ohio and that more locations were on the way. It was reported at the time that the company had forecasted having 140 access points in 430 markets, and covering 69 percent of U.S. The grocer opened a concept called GreenWise Market last year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Urban areas have that, and even some “inner-ring” suburbs on the outskirts off major metros have it — but generally the further one drifts from those urban centers, the more digital and omnicommerce services tend to dry up.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Deloitte has been an early embracer of blockchain technology, and 2016 was a busy year for the consulting firm in the space. firm that uses distributed ledger technology for payments and settlement. This diversity may be a testament to the versatility of the technology,” Managing Director David Schatsky said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

These are hardly easy times, and as the country makes its way through the economic headwinds and social distancing that have become the hallmarks of the pandemic , the real estate market has been upended. With a nod to the real estate market at large, Uher said “ real estate is down, but it’s not out.” Looking Ahead.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to the blog post, the retailer currently has grocery delivery available in almost 100 metro regions and “is continuing to innovate to find new ways to serve customers – better, faster and easier.”. households. Walmart U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Dreamscape Immersive, a new virtual reality technology startup, is looking to find growth and opportunity in the film and entertainment industry. 21st Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — along with an investment from director Steven Spielberg, according to The Wall Street Journal. have also reportedly invested in Dreamscape.

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PYMNTS

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

JULY 17, 2017

Here in the States, urban commuters are doubtlessly familiar with bike-sharing based on docking stations — from metro Boston’s Hubway service to Los Angeles’ Metro Bike Share. But in China, a change has been brewing — and rapidly, as the market is evolving away from those docks. As of the latest U.S.

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Innovation Los Angeles Metro Mobile 120

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

On the government side, that demand for transparency and fair competition means each step in procurement is scrutinized, from sourcing to the completion of a project — a reality that makes spend visibility, and technologies that can provide it, essential. Metro) has become embroiled in a legal dispute with a major bus supplier.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the two ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to separate in the imagination and in reality. The global market for smart city technology will reach an estimated $774.8 They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

is a tough market – and getting tougher. The WSJ reports that decisions about tech upgrades were marked by indecision about how much to change, and potential technology partners reportedly stormed out of a meeting finding they were unable able to work within Kroger’s conservative corporate culture.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

12) that it is partnering with Instacart in four test markets. It could put the Bentonville crew within striking distance of pretty much the whole country for grocery delivery – and could add some needed user-friendly technology to Walmart’s online grocery efforts. Walmart made the announcement on Wednesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

At the time, the move was written off to timing pressure — Amazon wants to get its products to the global market faster than it can conceivably teach Alexa to speak every human language. We connect webinars and training stations at shared workspaces, in major metros, institutes and beyond,” Dilip R.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2018

market has changed, framed largely as a competition between Amazon and Walmart , with increasing pressure from discount chains like ALDI. Kroger is committed to maintaining its market share — and not being overrun in the grocery war underway. Ever since that inflection point, the narrative surrounding grocery in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. As the newspaper said, “German wholesaler Metro is also in the process of selling its operations to a local bidder while British grocery giant Tesco pulled out of the Chinese market in 2014.”. The store is located in the Shanghai area.

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