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JUNE 24, 2020

Now, in addition to car and personal loans on behalf of retail and institutional investors, Zopa will introduce savings accounts this week, to be followed by the addition of credit cards later this year. But it plans to avoid the interest-free introductory deals common among the nation’s credit card market.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

After the acquisition, Goldiam was able to successfully beta-test and complete a soft launch for the site, which plans to cater to a new market segment for the U.S. retail jewelry industry. On Friday, Goldiam's stocks were trading in the green, an India Infoline report said. The company's stocks were at Rs235.45 per piece up by 0.62

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MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. Cequence Security. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California. Contrast Security.

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JULY 23, 2020

Ascena Retail Group, Inc. The retailer and “certain of its subsidiaries” have come to a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with more than 68 percent of secured term lenders, according to a Thursday (July 23) statement.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That said, IoT device creators and consumers are looking at IoT security with a higher level of scrutiny. In the February Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS examines how countries, developers and consumers are responding to increased calls for security, as well as how the IoT market is growing worldwide. Around the IoT World.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. While the pharmacy retailer had slowly brought the functionality to its brick-and-mortar stores, the rollout was subsequently publicized.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Indonesian wholesale eCommerce market Ula has announced that it has secured $10.5 The company was formed by Nipul Mehra, who is a former FlipKart senior director of retail and a former investor at Sequoia India. million in a new seed funding round, according to an e27 report. The round was led by Sequoia India and Lightspeed India.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Today in B2B payments, the SBA releases guidance for the next round of PPP loans, while xSuite secures Peppol invoice certification. Among the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with which TripActions Liquid now communicates are NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage Intacct, SAP and Xero, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The American Farm Bureau has estimated that roughly 75 percent of commercial farmers have IoT technologies in place, but less than 5 percent have plans in place to deal with breaches. The Vulnerabilities of Retail (and Other Sectors).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Overstock is gearing up to sell its retail business, with a deal taking place in the next few months as it focuses solely on its blockchain initiatives. Overstock has previously announced plans to sell the retail business so that it can focus on blockchain technology. security tokens).

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APRIL 1, 2020

With social distancing currently a top priority of retailers in the current environment, a supplier of shopper engagement and loss prevention technologies has flipped the script, now making devices that heighten real-time awareness of social distancing in retail stores.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Following October’s massive DDoS attack on Dyn, which knocked out internet service for millions of Americans, many in the industry have been scrambling to come up with ways to secure the Internet of Things from being used as a pawn in future cyberattack schemes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. that the company is visiting sites of now defunct retail spaces. Amazon has its eyes on expansion for its Whole Foods brand in closed Sears and Kmart stores, according to a report by Yahoo! Sources told Yahoo!

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MARCH 23, 2020

But for non-essential retail, stepping up takes more commitment, risk and money. It’s in the non-essential category that true retail heroes are showing up amid the coronavirus pandemic. 1: In Detroit Bedrock LLC real estate company is giving free rent for the next three months to its small-business retail and restaurant tenants.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. 5G Security Holes? As well, the 21-page report found that 5G “security goals are underspecified,” among other problems.

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JANUARY 18, 2020

More impressive, according to shop owner Aquila Brown, the burglar managed to avoid ever directly looking at the security cameras, and managed to locate the cash register instantly, despite the fact that it had been recently relocated in the shop. Botched crimes in local retail are common. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion .

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JANUARY 23, 2022

According to Fung Business Intelligence Centre (FBIC), a Hong Kong-based think tank, China’s retail sales will likely grow by six per cent in 2022 as the government strengthens measures and policies to boost consumption. How is the retail sector in China evolving – pre and during COVID? trillion in 2020 to US$2.46 in 2020 to 45.5%

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When it comes to personal information, especially data linked to payment accounts, the level of privacy and accuracy of security are key in keeping the retail world spinning. In other U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2020

With the current health emergency retailers face unprecedented issues. Closing stores, limiting hours, changing order patterns, remote work — all of these issues have joined basic survival as retailers contend with sudden and unpredictable challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. 1: Employees. Read the fine print in the lease.

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JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space. smartphone users.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Verizon , Verizon’s Skyward unit and UPS Flight Forward are teaming up to provide drone delivery for retail products using Verizon’s 4G LTE and 5G networks. The companies began testing the drones last year in Florida using Verizon’s 4G network and now plan to test them on Verizon’s new 5G Ultra Wideband network. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

This rapid proliferation of Intelligence of Things (IoT) devices calls for robust infrastructure that can securely accommodate the upsurge of network traffic. The company plans to offer predictive equipment maintenance and better spare-parts inventory management to reduce machine downtime for its industrial clients.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Tencent has a retail joint venture, Amazon is changing how it does business in Australia and Sears hits another low. Tencent Partners For ‘Smart Retail’. The online retailer will make Australians use its Australia site instead of its larger U.S. Sears Plans To Close 72 More Stores. Walmart Sends Its Workers To College.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

According to its Securities and Exchange Commission stock registration statement, as cited by CNBC , the online mattress retailer said it lost $73.4 The company, which plans to list under the symbol “CSPR,” began selling mattresses on the web five years ago, and it now sells pillows, lamps, sheets and other bedroom accessories.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

PNC Bank plans to reduce the count of its branch offices through next year, Fox Business reported. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing per the outlet. In the U.S., William Demchak , the chairman and CEO of PNC, said per the report that the institution is set to shutter 280 offices by next year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. What Security Means For Subscriptions. Traditionally, online retailers receive and process credit card information upon each transaction.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This week Keller unveiled his post-pandemic plan. Eater also noted that “Only three tables are available at any given time for the experience,” and that it’s pay-in-advance to secure Keller’s post-pandemic epicurean splurge. As reported by Eater San Francisco, “the restaurant announced Wednesday (Sept. restaurants will never reopen.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But top industry experts told Karen Webster during PYMNTS’ latest “On The Agenda” panel that the hurdles for retailers are only beginning. He said the shipping infrastructure nearly buckled earlier this year, and retailers are now being highly conservative when it comes to managing deliveries. “We Stay Flexible .

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

“Since POD is difficult to implement — it requires completely different back-end and front-end processes — we have built an interface that allows anyone to leverage the functionality and start building/growing their own retail brands around the world within minutes for free.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is positive news for retailers as they find themselves once again on the front lines of the surge in the pandemic. That optimism will eventually lead to more accurate and aggressive planning for the first and second quarter of 2021. If a retailer sold food, it was essential. On Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Pretty much everyone needs medicine at one or another, and that need is helping to drive retail innovation and attempts at disruption in the pharmacy business. After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in the United States.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

In faster payments news, the Fed is planning to build its own instant clearing and settlement rails. And, in retail, malls are looking for innovations with new uses for old commerce spaces. All this, Today In Data. Data: 250,000: Estimated number of data records lost or stolen every hour.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As car buyers and sellers across the country increasingly turn to eCommerce solutions, CarStory will strengthen and extend the reach of our digital retailing platform, and together we will accelerate the transformation of the massive used auto industry,” Vroom CEO Paul Hennessy said in announcing the $120 million cash-and-stock deal.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

based retailer Farfetch has announced it is ready to go public. An F-1 form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed that the company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker FTCH. After nearly a decade in business, U.K. Of course, that could change.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. A few big-ticket purchases of digital apparel retailers like ModCloth and Bonobos didn’t turn out as planned. Internal Expansion of the Week: Amazon’s Growing Head Count .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Global online discount apparel marketplace ZAFUL, based in China, recently announced new upgrades to its payment protocols and SSL checkouts to boost the security of its eCommerce system and grow confidentiality for its individual shoppers. In Brazil, paying in installments is a standard practice for physical and online retailers alike.

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