PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The bank also processed record-breaking online and mobile payment transactions on Cyber Monday, up nearly 25 percent over 2019. with 2019 transaction volume exceeding $1.5 Black Friday sales stretched across the entire month of November as retailers launched special deals as early as Nov. As the No. trillion, J.P.

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Online and Mobile Banking NOV Treasury Processors 115

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The majority of Chinese consumers surveyed by AlixPartners – a formidable 57 percent – say they will buy fewer American brands and products on Singles Day come Nov. And so as there is no mistaking the message Chinese consumers are sending, 62 percent say it is patriotism, not pocketbook issues, that is driving the decision.

Cross-Border 46

Cross-Border Consumer NOV Product 46

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The legacy global remittance giant said on Monday (Nov. Western Union first unveiled the goal of expanding digital payments to 100 countries during its investor day event in 2019. Digital revenue now accounts for 21 percent of its consumer business and is “trending at an annual rate of over $900 million,” Western Union said.

Digital Payments 144

Digital Payments Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Payments 144

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

According to Tamebay , an Amazon seller news site, Amazon Early Black Friday Deals will start and run through Nov. The traditional “Black Friday” falls on Nov. 27 this year; Cyber Monday is Nov. The 2019 date was July 16. This means that Amazon will pretty much have sales events running for two entire months.

NOV 108

NOV Consumer Product 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Consumers have already spent $62.5 Even before Thanksgiving, shoppers are seeing Black-Friday-like discounts on gift items,” Taylor Schreiner , director of Adobe Digital Insights, said Wednesday (Nov. Retailers certainly hope consumers will be shopping early so that their purchases can be shipped and delivered in time.”.

NOV 87

NOV Consumer Accounts 87

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This year, Thanksgiving lands on Nov. Per Adobe, this holiday season consumers will spend 20 percent more with their smartphones than last year, for $14 billion in total, accounting for 36 percent of all online sales. Concerning retailer apps, mass merchants have the best likelihood of consumer downloads. Nearly half (46.3

Consumer 51

Consumer NOV Product Technology 51

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019), it is clear that what has happened this year will have big implications for the new decade. Here are the 2019 payment trends that made the biggest splash, and promise to make even bigger splashes in the new decade. #1:

Consumer 64

Consumer Zelle P2P Real Time Payments 64

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

consumers are expected to spend $12.7 billion today, a 35 percent bounce over 2019, according to Adobe Analytics. said Michael Brown, a partner in Kearney’s consumer products and retail practice. Then, the issue became product availability: Was it in stock, and could companies really ship the items that the consumer had ordered?

NOV 60

NOV Consumer Research Product 60

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. A PYMNTS study of a census-balanced sample of 2,165 consumers conducted Oct. 27-28 of this year reveals that roughly 17 percent of U.S.

Consumer 98

Consumer Online and Mobile Banking Product Non-Bank 98

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

To make things easier for shoppers, Walmart is also introducing a gift finder on its website and will launch a digital toy catalog on Nov. Consumers are most concerned with getting good deals around the holiday season, according to a recent study by Deloitte.

NOV 40

NOV Consumer Authorization Economy 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

PSCU’s Data & Analytics and Advisors Plus workforces collected and examined information from credit unions that harnessed PSCU for credit and/or debit processing during the 2020 and 2019 holiday seasons to calculate the 2020 holiday data. Purchases between Nov. The two weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, which spanned from Nov.

Volume 62

Volume Credit Union Credit Union Service Organization NOV 62

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Breach Clarity’s FinovateFall 2019 demo (2020 coming soon). Breach Clarity was founded in 2016 (launched in 2019) by my long-time friend Jim Van Dyke and his colleague Al Pascual. The startup looks at each breach and assigns a score of 1 to 10 so consumers can better understand its severity. Founded : July 2019.

NOV 15

NOV Breach Data Breach FinTech 15

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The launch will expand DraftKings’ presence in convenience stores like 7-Eleven, Speedway, Dollar General, and Sheetz, and also enable consumers to gift the DraftKings experience to others in $25 and $50 denominations. DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov. DraftKings announced on Wednesday (Sept.

Payer 92

Payer B2C NOV Payments 92

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The divide between digital and brick-and-mortar commerce hit a tipping point this holiday season, with more consumers than ever going online to kick off their holiday shopping sprees. consumers on Nov. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers’ shift to digital-first commerce. This is what we learned. It is also 27.1

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Debit Card PayPal Credit Cards Consumer 128

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Wearable device sales have shot up at least 30 percent this year as consumers looked to technology to help them monitor their health during the ongoing global pandemic, according to a top Samsung executive. Samsung will continue to invest in these advanced technologies.”. Samsung will face strong competition from Apple. Apple shipped 30.7

NOV 60

NOV Contactless Payments Visa Digital Payments 60

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

percent from the same period in 2019. . percent from November 2019, while food services and drinking places were down 17.2 percent from November 2019, while food services and drinking places were down 17.2 Consumer spending in the report dated Oct. Census Bureau report released on Tuesday (Nov. percent to down 0.1

NOV 61

NOV Consumer Economy 61

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

That might be a harsh characterization for a day in which consumers spent $10.8 27 through Nov. billion reported for Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend in 2019, a record that was broken by the end of the day Saturday. 23 through Nov. 30, sales increased by 84 percent from 2019. Cyber Monday spending rose 15.1

NOV 61

NOV Origination Gateways Consumer 61

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Amazon said on Thursday (Nov. Amazon launched its Key In-Garage Delivery service in early 2019 in an effort to thwart package theft by so-called “porch pirates.”. A PYMNTS study of a census-balanced sample of 2,165 consumers conducted Oct. That compares to 68 percent of consumers who reported belonging to Amazon Prime.

NOV 105

NOV On-Demand Volume Consumer 105

Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2024

This infrastructure, which was launched in 2019, has considerably helped boost digital payment usage, with Doku reporting a fourfold increase in e-money transactions on its platform in 2022, compared with 2021. By 2030, that value is forecasted to stand in the US$210-360 billion range, according to the e-Conomy SEA 2023 report.

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Financial Inclusion Innovation Payments NOV 116

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2

CHIPS 91

CHIPS NOV Online and Mobile Banking Contactless Payments 91

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Farfetch Limited reported on Friday (Nov. million from $492 million in Q3 2019. million in Q3 2019, according to an announcement. million rise in brand platform GMV from New Guards as a result of its August 2019 acquisition and a formidable demand for merchandise in their brand collection. million, up from $420.3

NOV 41

NOV Adjustments Procedures On-Demand 41

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

According to TechCrunch , the move has paid off, with consumers having already spent $50.1 billion online since Nov. Amazon started Black Friday deals on Nov. Amazon started Black Friday deals on Nov. Target has been running various sales and started an early access sale on Wednesday (Nov. percent year over year.

NOV 52

NOV Compromise Consumer Product 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Silicon Valley buy now pay later (BNPL) payments startup Affirm filed an initial public offering (IPO) for a Nasdaq listing, Affirm said in a statement on Thursday (Nov. Affirm partners with more than 6,500 merchants, and approximately 64% of its BNPL loans were from repeat consumers in 2020. billion in April 2019.

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BNPL PayPal Underwriting NOV 73

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Of the many data-based insights contained in the new Black Friday 2020 Report: Crossing the Digital-Physical Shopping Divide , one line captures the mood of this just-concluded commerce holiday weekend: “Concerns over COVID-19 were present, but were secondary to consumers who craved convenience.”. consumers taken on Saturday (Nov.

Credit Cards 59

Credit Cards Debit Card BNPL PayPal 59

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We are sure that this strategic partnership supported by investment and the power of Grab's technology will strengthen LinkAja's services in providing effective solutions to provide access to finance and the economy for the Indonesian people,” Haryati Lawidjaja, president director of LinkAja said in a statement on Tuesday (Nov.

FinTech 81

FinTech eWallet Financial Inclusion NOV 81

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

China’s Alibaba broke sales records during the 24-hour shopping event known as Singles Day, CNBC reported on Monday (Nov. The 11th annual Singles Day — also known as the Double 11 since it falls on Nov. consumer spending during one-day sales events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Last Wednesday (Nov. China trade war.

NOV 44

NOV SWIFT Participant Economy 44

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Chase said Wednesday (Nov. 14) that it is rolling out tap-to-pay functionality across its Chase Visa card portfolio, an initiative that will begin late this year and extend into 2019. Chase , the consumer banking arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Outside the U.S.,

Credit Cards 57

Credit Cards NOV Contactless Payments Card Issuer 57

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Offers to buy the retailer’s intellectual property assets have to be in by Nov. 16, and an auction is scheduled for Nov. The retailer’s weekly offerings let consumers “shop the drop,” a curated selection of high-end merchandise from names that are not often discounted. Century 21 stores announced on Sept.

NOV 50

NOV Consumer 50

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our [gross order volume] in 2019 represented less than 3 percent of this off-premise spend, highlighting the large addressable opportunity ahead of us in the food vertical alone,” DoorDash wrote in its recent S-1 filing. “We The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources Monday (Nov. market for food delivery. population. …

On-Demand 72

On-Demand Real Time Payments Non-Bank NOV 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, surprising even the National Retail Federation (NRF). Despite unprecedented challenges, consumers and retailers demonstrated incredible resilience this holiday season,” said NRF President Matthew Shay in a statement. The NRF said 2020 retail sales from Nov. percent jump was double the 3.5

Non-Bank 52

Non-Bank NOV Consumer Economy 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“The combined Bluefin/PAAY solution set is as close as we can get to a silver bullet in payment security for eCommerce transactions,” Ruston Miles , co-founder and chief strategy officer at Bluefin, said in a statement on Tuesday (Nov. Cyberattacks have jumped 273 percent in the first quarter of this year over the same period in 2019.

Transactions 93

Transactions Security Encryption CCPA 93

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

On that day, Nov. Investors had more clarity, and hope, that consumers and businesses could soon be on a path to resume the physical activities that grounded important sectors of the U.S. PYMNTS fielded a national consumer study of 2,806 U.S. consumers on Nov. and global economy for most of 2020. percent).

NOV 108

NOV Consumer Risk On-Demand 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As noted by CNBC on Tuesday (Nov. As has been widely reported, the listings — to have been done dually in Shanghai and Hong Kong on Nov. trillion RMBs for consumers and 422 billion RMBs for small businesses, as the company originates loans in turn underwritten by partner banks. 5 — would have raised an estimated $34 billion.

NOV 79

NOV Origination Small Business Non-Bank 79

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

consumer’s whole paycheck on Tuesday (Nov.17) An exclusive research project from PYMNTS shows that Walmart could leverage its new membership model to capture more of the consumer’s whole paycheck. A study of a census-balanced sample of 2,165 consumers conducted Oct. percent from 2019 — a spending boost driven by COVID-19.

Economy 60

Economy NOV On-Demand Adjustments 60

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s no secret that the meetings and events industry has been hit hard as in-person events have shuttered, as seen this week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking to a virtual format. Fifty-one percent of all consumers now say they are “very” or “extremely” likely to get vaccinated. 19 and the 40 percent who said so on Nov.

Returns 68

Returns NOV Correspondent On-Demand 68

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

percent drop the previous month, CNBC reported on Friday (Nov. Consumer spending was up an annualized rate of 2.9 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Thursday (Nov. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Thursday (Nov. Retail sales rose 0.3 percent in October, rebounding from a 0.3

Federal Reserve 46

Federal Reserve NOV Economy Central Bank 46

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau report released on Tuesday (Nov. percent from 2019. A drop in consumer credit card balances is not expected to lead to an increase in holiday spending. retail sales rose 0.3 percent in October to $553.3 billion, missing forecasts but still up for the sixth consecutive month, according to the monthly U.S.

NOV 53

NOV Credit Cards Economy Research 53