TheGuardian

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Chief executive’s boast that there is nothing wrong with its business model will sound hollow to those nursing a 97% loss Once upon a time, Metro Bank was going to shake up the old guard in the banking world via the radical strategy of opening branches while others were closing them. Those investors have now received a harsh lesson.

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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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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2019

InComm has partnered with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to more than quadruple the number of retail locations at which customers can purchase and reload its contactless TAP transit fare cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 20, 2020

Things we’re reading today include … Bank of England ‘failing climate’ with Covid-19 stimulus programme CMA letter to Metro Bank on breaches of the Retail Banking Order Businesses Say Big Banks Flouted ‘First Come First Served’ for Aid Are Credit Unions As Safe As Banks Right Now?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

All of Mastercard’s issuing partners will participate in this new cashback initiative, including Clydesdale Bank, Metro Bank, Monzo, N26, Starling Bank, Virgin Money and Yorkshire Bank. Santander will join later this year. “As As an industry, we have committed to finding sustainable ways to maintain people’s access to cash.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Philippe also said per the report that limitations would remain for train travel of long distances and that Paris metro service would be bolstered to let individuals get to their jobs while still following social distancing. The HDE, which is a national organization of retailers, had panned the decision only to let smaller shops open again.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment. That’s the message from a company called LISNR, at least.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The service availability has also increased to include 50 metro areas around the country. Just like when Amazon entered a retail market, the traditional players have to respond, and the same can be said of Amazon Home Services. What’s more, Amazon said the average rating is 4.7 out of five stars.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

It’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out — eCommerce merchants are on the hunt and signing large contracts. By category, the biggest lease signers were manufacturers, with 14 percent of the market, followed closely by beverage providers (11 percent), retailers (7 percent) and tech firms (4 percent).

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The Paypers

MAY 5, 2021

Backbase has renewed its partnership with UK-based retail and commercial challenger bank Metro Bank.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Consumers may be curbing their spending , and perhaps even anticipating a new recession, but that could all serve as fuel for certain types of retail expansion — in this case, more brick-and-mortar stores for deep discount chain Five Below. But both efforts, along with other moves, show the ongoing life behind brick-and-mortar retail.

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Bobsguide

JULY 29, 2020

High-street bank branches are here to stay as customers value speaking to bank staff in person, according to Metro Bank’s managing director of distribution, Ian Walters. “If you want to go in and talk to somebody face-to-face you can do so… We think it's really important to.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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The Paypers

APRIL 30, 2020

A new report by research company Forrester has revealed that 94% of Indians in metros are using a digital payment methods and more so after social distancing.

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Payments Source

JUNE 20, 2016

Malaysian remittance company Metro Money Exchange has selected Dragonfly Fintech, a Singapore-based blockchain technology provider, to power its remittance business.

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Bobsguide

JANUARY 23, 2019

From our view it suggests it’s idiosyncratic to Metro Bank,” says Alastair Pate, head of investor relations at OneSavings Bank, commenting on Metro’s dramatic price plummet today. Metro Bank shares were. “We’re comfortable with how we allocate risk weighted assets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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PopularBank

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Popular”) (NASDAQ: BPOP), bank holding company of Popular Bank, today announced Popular Bank’s strategic realignment of its New York Metro branch network. This realignment in our New York Metro market is consistent with our small business and retail services model in South Florida,” said Popular, Inc. New York Metro.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Innovation in retail comes from many places, and that includes pets. Finding a good dog sitter in a crowded urban metro area can be challenging — particularly if one is looking for an offering with flexibility. Take the example of doggie day care.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And in fashion retail, Gap Inc. 30: Approximate number of retailers in New York for which Bond manages post-purchase logistics. $15 6: Number of additional nano distribution centers Bond plans to open in the NY metro area by March. All this, Today in Data. 56 million: Number of women who bought secondhand products in 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

In response, unattended retail operators are finding new ways to embrace alternative payment methods, ranging from mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies. In the new Unattended Retail Tracker , PYMNTS charts the latest ways that companies are working to accept more non-cash payment methods, from the common credit card swipe to biometric scans.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The world’s largest retailer plans to open 1,000 mini delivery hubs in suburbs and cities across the country, Bloomberg reports , citing sources familiar with the company’s plans. But Amazon’s search for an edge in the COVID-era retail wars extends beyond terrestrial warehouses and to the skies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

has tapped Adyen for online and in-store payments in Europe , and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation in India is at work on a quick response (QR) code ticketing system. Adyen’s chief commercial officer, Roelant Prins, noted that the line between online and in-store has blurred as retail has become more fluid. In addition, Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

metros, with plans to expand further this year. The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. Finance at the time that the company is visiting sites of now-defunct retail spaces. Amazon said it will continue to expand the service throughout this year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

The company told Forbes that its goal is to provide a physical location where those small businesses can sit down across the table from experts who can help them navigate the turbulent retail waters ahead. Warby Parker CEO Neil Blumenthal said, unequivocally, that he doesn’t believe retail is dead or dying — only “mediocre retail experiences.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Via that API integration, Bond allows retailers to make the entire delivery process more transparent to their customers – not to mention more customizable. The hope, according to Hachmon, is to give retailers better end-to-end control of their consumers’ experience. No matter where it is, it will likely be a welcome add-on.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

But, while more consumers are heading to mobile retail channels, the personal experience and ability to touch and preview items in-person offered by physical stores still holds allure for roughly 70 percent of shoppers. People aren’t [going] online anymore — they’re online all day,” Schambach said.

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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 well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path that Costco seems to be taking in China. Costco Wholesale Corp. But can Costco do well in China, and in the midst of a trade war that still seems to be escalating?

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Roadie is using the three partnerships to expand its presence in 224 metro areas across the U.S. Many of the metro areas were first launched with consumers and small businesses and now the company is scaling to cater to enterprise customers delivering anything up to 100 miles around each city in the country. “In

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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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 well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path Costco seems to be taking in China. Costco Wholesale Corp. But can Costco do well in China, and in the midst of a trade war that still seems to be escalating?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In addition to investing in technology startups, Alibaba has also set its sight on the physical retail market. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the company was interested in acquiring a stake in the Chinese wholesale operations of Metro AG , the German operator of cash and carry stores.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

By the time retailers get to Black Friday , they will have worked through almost two months of sales events – both proprietary and otherwise – from competitors ranging from Amazon to Target to Walmart. COVID-19 shows no signs of abating – in fact, fears of a second wave have already hit New York City, among other metro areas.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Some geographies are coping with the upheaval in retail better than others, as vacancies in U.S. The Reis data monitors 77 metro areas and indicates that 9.4 However, the retail vacancy rate was under 7 percent in 17 cities, with San Francisco taking the lead at 4.1 But retail vacancies increased by 2.4

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