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April 25, 2013
SinfulColors drive Revlon Q1 results

Beauty brand Revlon posted a net loss during the first quarter, including charges, as net sales rose 2.1% excluding the unfavorable impact of foreign currency fluctuations.

April 4, 2013
Bi-Lo charity going to the dogs (and the cats)

Bi-Lo annouced that, through April 30, it will host its fourth annual Paws “Feed the Love” campaign.

April 1, 2013
Virtual Piggy banks on former PayPal exec for mobile development

Virtual Piggy, an online service that allows parents to monitor their children's online shopping behavior, has appointed Iain Herd as global mobile product director.

March 26, 2013
Bluebird singing sweeter financial song for Walmart

Who needs a bank? Walmart and American Express have added a host of capabilities to the Bluebird financial service product they introduced last year as an alternative to debit and checking accounts.

March 26, 2013
Bluebird singing sweeter financial song for Walmart

Who needs a bank? Walmart and American Express have added a host of capabilities to the Bluebird financial service product they introduced last year as an alternative to debit and checking accounts.

January 15, 2013
White-label integrated platform expands global footprint

Mozido, a cloud-based, white-label integrated platform of mobile payments, commerce and marketing, has appointed former senior CorFire executives Steve Bacastow and Charlie Wiggs to its management team.

October 23, 2012
Target to sell credit card business

Target will no longer have to worry about the impact of its consumer credit card portfolio on its financial performance, now that it has agreed to sell the business to TD Bank Group.

October 8, 2012
Walmart, American Express launch alternative to traditional bank accounts

Walmart and American Express have teamed up to offer customers an alternative to debit and checking accounts.

August 9, 2012
Sam's Club extends credit relationship with GE Capital Retail Bank

Sam's Club has extended its relationship with GE Capital Retail Bank, a consumer lending unit of General Electric Company.

June 12, 2012
Cabela’s announces executive resignation

Sidney, Neb. -- Cabela's Inc. announced that, effective January 1, 2013, Joseph M. Friebe, executive VP and president and CEO of the chain’s World’s Foremost Bank, will transition from his current positions and will become a special advisor to the CEO of the bank through 2014, when he plans to retire.

“Under Joe’s leadership, the Cabela’s Club Visa program has posted industry-leading results, which have contributed greatly to our strategic growth,” said Tommy Millner, Cabela's CEO.  

May 29, 2012
Kroger launches food bank charity campaign

Kroger has launched a new campaign to generate $4 million in cash and good donations to assist 80 local food banks in the communities it serves.

May 2, 2012
NRF: Swipe fees haven't dropped enough

The National Retail Federation is responding to a report from the Federal Reserve, which revealed that debit card swipe fees collected by the nation's largest banks have significantly dropped since reform regulations took effect last fall.

April 26, 2012
Vantiv launches mobile check deposit after successful pilot with Town & Country Bank

Payment processing service-provider Vantiv said Wednesday that it has launched its Mobile Check Deposit product that enables consumers and small business owners to use their smartphone to take a picture of a check and deposit into their account.

March 8, 2012
Delivering the right combination of relevance and consumer reach

Why has Google arguably become the most popular advertising platform on the planet, attracting a whopping $36.5 billion in ad spending in 2011? And why has Facebook, with an expected IPO valuation of around $100 billion, become such a juggernaut in digital marketing?

November 23, 2011
Retailers sue Federal Reserve

A coalition of retail organizations, including the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute and the National Association of Convenience Stores, have filed a lawsuit charging that the Federal Reserve failed to comply with a new law requiring it to reduce fees bank charge retailers when shoppers use credit cards.

November 23, 2011
Retailers sue Federal Reserve

A coalition of retail organizations, including the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute and the National Association of Convenience Stores, have filed a lawsuit charging that the Federal Reserve failed to comply with a new law requiring it to reduce fees bank charge retailers when shoppers use credit cards.

November 4, 2011
Food 4 Less, Ralphs launches campaign to support local food banks

Food 4 Less announced that it is inviting customers to help support local food banks and families in need through a special fund-raising campaign that kicks off Nov. 6.

November 2, 2011
RILA responds to Bank of America decision to abandon debit fee charge

The Retail Industry Leaders Association on Tuesday issued a statement in response to Bank of America’s decision to abandon its plan to charge new fees on debit card users.

September 30, 2011
Life’s unavoidables: Death, taxes and bank fees

Reduced fees for debit card transactions go into effect on Monday and the architect of the authorizing legislation, Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, was feeling a lot of love from a retail industry that's convinced ample justification remains for even deeper fee reductions.

September 30, 2011
Life’s unavoidables: Death, taxes and bank fees

Reduced fees for debit card transactions go into effect on Monday and the architect of the authorizing legislation, Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, was feeling a lot of love from a retail industry that's convinced ample justification remains for even deeper fee reductions.

July 5, 2011
NRF: ‘Extremely disappointed’ in swipe-fee regulations set

WASHINGTON  — The National Retail Federation said last week that it is disappointed in the final debit card swipe-fee regulations set by the Federal Reserve.

Under the new rule, the current debit card swipe-fee rate of 1%-2% of each transaction will be replaced with a flat fee of not more than 21 cents per transaction for the nation’s largest banks -- substantially higher than the flat fee of up to 12 cents the Fed originally proposed in December 2010.

April 22, 2011
Report: Woman seeks class-action against Target over debt-collection methods

A Western Pennsylvania woman filed a federal lawsuit last week against Target Corp. and its law firm over the chain's debt-collection practices, the Associated Press reported. The woman claims false affidavits were used to go after customers who allegedly owed money to a subsidiary bank that issues the store's credit cards.

January 6, 2011
Transaction marketing reshapes retail in 2011

Transaction marketing gained widespread acceptance among retailers in 2010, as they began to recognize marketing in the electronic banking channel as a far more cost effective way to encourage repeat business, increase the average transaction sizes and drive same-store sales.

October 24, 2010
Kroger to offer rewards card with U.S. bank

Kroger announced that it has teamed up with U.S. bank to offer credit cards and...

June 21, 2010
Tsang named to Gap Inc. board

Gap Inc. announced that Katherine Tsang, chairperson for Greater China at Standard Chartered PLC, a...

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