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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Even with the liquidation of Toys R Us operations in the U.S., parts of the business in other regions are still active and purchase goods as well as pay royalties to Tru Kids. The news comes as Toys R Us is going strong in Asia, where there are plans to open 60 new locations throughout the region this year. Tru Kids Inc.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We have deep dives on cloud technology, business-to-business (B2B) payments and Visa’s deal to acquire YellowPepper. The “whose customer is it” question is now at the core of a number of the platform dynamics at play today and experiences that shoppers and retailers have with those platforms. Trackers And Reports . In the U.S.,

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Every Bank Has a Certain Level of Small Business Banking Channel Confusion While few said it, almost every major bank implied some level of channel confusion with small business banking as it overlaps with retail, commercial, and specialty lines of business. However, this was the most common structure.

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing intelligent shopping carts that are billed as a way to improve the in-store experience. Its technology weighs and scans items as shoppers put them in their carts, shows a running tally of purchases and lets customers pay on the spot. convenience sector.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), the payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail, announced Wednesday (Feb. In a press release, the company said it has 11,900 customers and over 469,000 point-of-sale cashless payment devices on the ePort Connect platform.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Banking giant HSBC and Cainiao Network Technology, which is a logistics arm of Alibaba Group , have announced they will offer rapid finance approvals to online merchants that use Chinese shopping site Tmall, according to reports. Eight virtual banks are starting operations this year. The competition will be keen.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. The company is targeting both regional and national businesses with a minimum of 10 locations. The employee or wait staff wouldn’t know the difference between a voice or an online order.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Further, the competition is not just another bank that might make a loan or take a deposit, but it could be a credit union, insurance company, retail store, or a fintech. Traditionally, community banks would compare their financial performance and health to similar-sized banks in their region.

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MAY 18, 2023

The innovative pay-as-you-go solution allows Dock’s clients, including banks, fintechs, and retailers, to intercept fraudulent transactions and protect their operations, while also improving the user experience. Currently, Dock has 250 clients that use FICO technologies to fight fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

While Toys R Us has disappeared from the United States, it is going strong in Asia, which plans to open 60 new stores throughout the region this year. It currently operates more than 550 stores in the region. “We In addition, the company was looking for a buyer for its Canadian business.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

As they aim to fill eCommerce orders faster, supermarket retailers are piloting micro-fulfillment systems that can be positioned in the back of brick-and-mortar locations or in urban areas. The project will be approximately 10,000 square feet and for an unidentified regional grocer. online shopping vertical per eMarketer.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

As more retailers try to get more shoppers into their stores – not everything is about eCommerce, after all – new technologies are playing a big role. That technology promises to play a bigger role this holiday shopping season, according to an analysis. That includes beacons. There’s really no reason for beacons to be hidden.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The firm has made investments in past years with the inclusion of buying 6over6 late last year and rolling out new mobile program technologies with the inclusion of ExpressExam that lets shoppers quickly renew prescriptions. It also offers reservation and other services to over 100 third-party park operators.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

OUR PREDICTION: Health plans will need to pivot quickly to better align their business models, operating realities, and member expectations, shedding costs quickly and doubling down on digital transformation efforts at scale. Claiming the need for more efficiency, health plans will continue to roll up smaller, regionally-focused players.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Blockchain trade technology firm XREX has rolled out a cryptocurrency Exchange-as-a-Service (EaaS) technology called MyXchange. XREX says in the post that it has seen meaningful adoption among international MyXchange alpha testers such as MTOs and retailers in the Middle East, Africa and India.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

One area where the pandemic may significantly impact emerging data protection and open banking rules is the Middle East and North African region (MENA). The ongoing pandemic has caused many regulators in the MENA region to examine the digital and open banking infrastructure they have in place. Around The Data Protection World.

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JUNE 4, 2020

“In a post-COVID19 normal , we anticipate demand for delivery services to remain elevated,” said Demi Yu, regional head of GrabFood and GrabMart, in a press release, adding that the company plans to “double down” on its expansion of GrabMart. shoppers were buying retail goods online as of May 23, up from 29.2

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JUNE 17, 2019

Guest bloggers Ben Lopez and Charlie Arthy continue their series on achieving simplified, future-ready bank operations. . To optimize and simplify their operations for agility to capture opportunities driven by market change. That’s the route that a mid-sized regional US bank took.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction. Different regions have their own unique payment rails, and no two abide by the same regulatory framework. Other initiatives are being spearheaded across regions. So, what’s the problem? What’s Changing?

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Over the past 20 years, we've developed the largest luxury inventory in the industry, created cutting-edge reCommerce technology, and have led the way in authentication excellence,” Fashionphile CEO Ben Hemminger said in the announcement. and other countries. Each company was to buy $125 million of the notes.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Supreme Court’s order, according to reports , essentially opens the door to other such lawsuits — and could serve to increase the pressure on eCommerce operators to make their online and mobile stores accessible to consumers with disabilities. Domino’s stands out for its retail innovations. Domino’s Innovations.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2024

The various programs are wide ranging, complicated, and impactful which is why now is an excellent inflection point to provide financial advisory to both your retail and commercial customers. Technology Targeted: A large part of the Investing in America agenda revolves around improving efficiencies by upgrading technology.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The conversation came against a backdrop where the number of fundraising deals in the Southeast Asian region were higher in 2020, as measured through the second quarter — more than 60 percent higher over the second quarter of last year, in fact, to 184 deals as measured by DealStreetAsia.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Different social norms and customer-merchant expectations impact what fraud looks like in a given region, explains Dan Sketcher, head of product for Global Payments’ AU/NZ region. How Amazon’s Cashierless Tech Will (or Won’t) Change the Physical Retail Landscape. and new openings scheduled. and new openings scheduled.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

So where to next for the omnichannel retail giant? The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Its small size makes establishing an operation simple. Singapore, it turns out.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Grocery store operators — no matter if it is that small store on the corner or that sprawling location near the strip mall — are engaged in an existential fight that is certain to intensify in the coming years. That’s why [the] brick-and-mortar retailer isn’t going anywhere. Grocery Trends. You cannot replace that experience (online).”

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

operations to PNC Bank , creating the fifth-largest regional player in the U.S. No matter the size of the bank or the regional focus, there’s a general realization that disruption is on the horizon. People are revaluating their footprints and rebalancing their retail footprints,” he told Webster. “In

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JUNE 10, 2020

The company was formed by Nipul Mehra, who is a former FlipKart senior director of retail and a former investor at Sequoia India. In the report, he called Ula an “easy, affordable and scalable” solution to help retailers do business in more efficient ways.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities. The first EMV card was developed in 1994, but the technology did not begin circulating worldwide until the new millennium.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, though.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. The eCommerce retailer told employees Sunday (March 8) that it would not count unpaid time off if they have to use it this month. Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus around the world.

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JULY 2, 2019

Go Fuel Card operates its proprietary card network, with cards accepted at several thousand retail locations in the region. WEX first announced in March that it planned to take over Go Fuel Card as part of its strategy to strengthen its European operations. Europe and Australia,” he continued.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Technologies and payment solutions are finding the opportunity to multitask with solutions that, while initially focused on the corporate buyer, have now expanded to tackle friction for the supplier as well. As it turns out, the technology can also ease friction for suppliers' AR operations, too.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

The delivery outsourcing effort by Albertsons, which operates Vons, Pavilions and Safeway stores, will be in full effect by the end of February. The company will officially turn its delivery operations over to DoorDash or other outside companies that specialize in that type of work. Pandemic-Driven Redesign in Asia.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

They face the challenge of offering customers a smooth onboarding process while also remaining rigorous in know your customer (KYC) efforts, taking care to remain compliant with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations that aim to keep criminals from using legitimate operations to move money illegally. News From The AML/KYC Ecosystem .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Colombia-based RobinFood — Latin America’s fastest-growing chain of “cloud” restaurants — credits proprietary technology, the explosive growth of FinTechs and pandemic-led lifestyle changes as the secrets of its success. Vega said the company planned to invest that money into expanding operations and “winning” in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil.

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