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Banking
Several Regional Banks Maintaining Stable Deposits
April 20, 2023

Several regional banks ended the first quarter with stable deposits. Their reports of flat deposits came after a quarter in which the collapses of three banks led investors to closely watch the deposit flows at other smaller banks, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 20). Deposits were...

B2B Payments
Walmart Business+ Takes the Temperature on Healthcare Procurement
April 20, 2023

Business credit card issuers are working with major retailers online and in-store to capture and add value to business spend with flexibility and rewards aligned for business users. The latest development along these lines is healthcare spend management platform Nitra offering doctors who use its card for...

Retail
Grocers Launch Convenience Store Concepts Despite Challenges in the Space
April 20, 2023

This week in grocery, H-E-B adds convenience stores, Giant Eagle revisits mailers and Kroger accepts SNAP. As grocers look to drive up frequency, many are adding shrunk-down c-store concepts. Most recently, Texas supermarket chain H-E-B, which has more than 430 locations in Texas and Mexico,...

Payment Methods
UK Shoppers’ Use of Contactless Cards Spikes 94% YOY
April 20, 2023

Contactless cards have long been at the center of the U.K.’s payments ecosystem, but now, digital wallets are quickly entering the mix. There is also a simultaneous shift from contactless credit to contactless debit cards. It all plays into payment choice, which is critical. Exploring...

Loyalty & Rewards
Triple and Banyan Partner to Enable Item-Level Card-Linked Offers
April 20, 2023

Triple and Banyan have partnered to enable item-level card-linked offers. With this collaboration, Triple’s card-linked offer platform will integrate Banyan’s stock keeping unit (SKU) data capabilities, the companies said in a Thursday (April 20) press release. This combination will allow banks and retailers using Triple’s...

Retail
‘Boring’ Retail Could Be Silent Factor in Sales Decline
April 20, 2023

At this point, the lack of product selection amid an inflationary environment has a chicken-and-egg feel to it. As reported earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal, merchants and manufacturers across nearly all retail sectors have hit the brakes on new product lines and...

eCommerce
MercadoLibre Adds 13K Jobs Amid Tech Firm Layoff Wave
April 20, 2023

As the tech world undertakes layoffs, MercadoLibre is in hiring mode. The Latin American eCommerce giant plans to add 13,000 jobs this year, Chief People Officer Sebastian Fernandez Silva said in an interview with Bloomberg News Thursday (April 20). The hiring will focus on logistics...

Investments
Vesey Ventures Launches $78 Million Debut Fund Focused on FinTechs
April 20, 2023

Vesey Ventures has launched a $78 million debut fund focused on early-stage FinTech companies. The new venture firm was founded by three former managing directors at Amex Ventures: Dana Eli-Lorch, Lindsay Fitzgerald and Julia Huang, Vesey Ventures said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS....

Delivery
Uber Expands Robotic Delivery as Aggregators Seek to Lower Cost
April 20, 2023

In an effort to drive customer frequency by lowering costs, aggregators are testing robotic delivery. Uber, for its part, announced Thursday (April 20) that it is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robotics company Cartken to offer autonomous fulfillment in Fairfax, Virginia’s Mosaic District shopping...