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Retail
Dick’s Sporting Goods Reels In Both Online And In-Store Sales
November 24, 2020

By the time this year’s holiday shopping season is over, Dick’s Sporting Goods executives may be daydreaming about goin’ fishing. The company has again reported a big increase in sales — not only online, but also at its physical sporting goods stores. Get the Full...

Loyalty & Rewards
Restaurant Operators Face New Loyalty Demands
November 24, 2020

Lettuce-wrap your mind around this: “There are 31.6 million consumers in the United States — 15.7 percent of the total — who are dining in restaurants less and ordering food online more often now than they did before the pandemic began. An astounding 82 percent...

B2B Payments
Why Digitization Isn’t Enough For A Positive B2B eCommerce Experience
November 24, 2020

While the business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce boom has arguably already occurred, the global pandemic is introducing a second wave of digital commerce adoption. Thanks to social distancing and stay-at-home requirements, foot traffic at brick-and-mortar stores remains slumped, leaving businesses to embrace the eCommerce model like never...

B2B Payments
Banks Embrace Direct Data Integrations For SMB Services
November 24, 2020

U.S. Bank is shifting away from screen scraping in favor of direct data connectivity, but it’s not the only financial institution (FI) embracing the data strategy. This week’s look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations explores how a range of banks is turning to partners...

B2B Payments
What SaaS’s Business Model Evolution Means For B2B Payments
November 24, 2020

The B2B Software-as-a-Service market has followed a fairy unique evolutionary path over the last few decades. Built with its foundations largely in the enterprise world, software first began being sold to organizations as more of a product, licensed one time to be used on-premise. Get...

Merchant Innovation
Merchants Break Out Omnichannel Innovations To Maintain Sales Through 2021
November 24, 2020

SMBs that have survived the impacts of the pandemic are now confronting new hurdles: winter and a potential second COVID-19 wave. In the 2021 New Merchant Business Models Playbook, Katie Swett Miller, eCommerce product lead at Square, runs down which payments and tech innovations restaurants...

Investments
Digital Bank HMBradley Raises $18.25M To Accelerate Credit Program
November 24, 2020

Digital banking platform HMBradley announced on Tuesday (Nov. 24) that it has raised $18.25 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its credit program. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Retail
On The Agenda: Five Things Retailers Can Do To Drive Conversions This Holiday Season
November 24, 2020

The holiday shopping season isn’t just going to be very different than any that have come before it. In some ways, it already is. For many consumers, the holiday-shopping rush kicked off in October with Amazon Prime Day and has continued as “Black Friday” sales...

Payment Methods
i2c: Mobile Banking, Credit Drive FinTech Opportunities Beyond The ‘Simple’ DDA
November 24, 2020

At a time when the global pandemic and ensuing economic upheaval have blurred the boundaries between traditional means of payment, the CEO of global payment- and banking-solution provider i2c says the biggest business opportunity ahead will be in credit, with mobile becoming the biggest game-changer....