PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

After launching the service last month in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach, Amazon plans to expand the delivery option across the U.S. Both of these cards offer 2 percent back at restaurants, gas stations and drugstores and 1 percent on all other purchases. throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In 2019, Goldman partners with Apple on the launch of the Apple Card , which the bank’s executives have stated was the “most successful credit card launch ever.” Of Goldman’s $7 billion in consumer loans and card balances in 2019, card lending accounted for “a significant portion.”. The move is on-trend for both firms.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. As expected, it was a great way to read the temperature of the banking industry. Home Depot was an interesting case study.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

QuickBite Founder and CEO Richard Reedy worked for a company in East Austin and didn’t have a ton of time to get lunch. Reedy also noted that Austin, and East Austin in particular, has an abundance of food trucks , but not many of them had a way for consumers to place their orders online.

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Mobile Austin Cards System 129

PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Pine Labs , which started as an offline retail payment provider in 1998, has since evolved to become a payment acceptance, stored value and in-store customer credit company that enables consumers to opt into installment payments plans online or at the point of sale in a physical store. The Frictionless Flow .

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Austin Cards Marketing Mobile 186

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are rolling out omnichannel options. To that end, Home Depot has been installing lockers in many of its locations to allow customers who place online orders to easily pick up their merchandise at the store. Seven in ten — or 70 percent — of consumers have purchased packaged goods online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

To help event organizers distribute tickets, online platforms are creating environments that efficiently work for buyers and sellers. The Austin, Texas-based company provides software to organizers of large and small events. (At Ticketbud created a one-click payment option through digital wallets to help drive conversions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

With a happy medium in mind, Chakka and Gentchev identified an opportunity to work with local businesses that had free space, noticing there were many beautiful restaurants in Austin that were closed during the day. As these restaurants were created for community, they make ideal spaces for remote workers.

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Austin Conference Texas Video 116

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It is powered by Shopify and accepts credit card payments. Beyond eCommerce, consumers can check the website to find local stores that carry its products in cities such as Austin, New York City and Denver. Beyond All Y’alls Foods, other innovators are making plant-based jerkies out of all sorts of ingredients.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Alternatively, they can find the company through online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Expedia, Hotels.com and Booking.com by searching for a particular property. For payments, Locale accepts credit cards (and does not take cash). Locale currently lists locations in Austin, Houston and Nashville on its website.

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Nashville Houston Austin Company 139

Gonzobanker

JUNE 11, 2018

While commercial lending and treasury management remains the money maker for more than 75% of my clients, most of those clients have a retail-heavy, if any, digital strategy. Lots of presentations on voice banking, Alexa, how we’ll bank when we’re all zipping around in self-driving cards, etc. More competition is welcome.

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Conference Digital Banking Austin Digital Strategies 72

South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Popular projects for 2023 include online loan and deposit onboarding utilizing third-party data to speed the process, compliance-as-a-service, payments, card controls, service case management, leveraging data for customer insights, and providing open banking APIs to customers.

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Community Bank Capital Training Lending 195

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Enhanced card management and personalized transactions are among the new features for the latest edition Malauzai Software’s mobile and online banking SmartApps. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Malauzai Software demonstrated its MOX Pay Powered by Visual App Builder at FinovateSpring 2016.

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Management Cards Austin Texas 12

CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2012.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

NFC penetration at launch was 15 large retailers’ stores and some 200k merchant locations. People who haven’t tried Apple Pay say they’re satisfied with what they’re using today – which in the day and age of EMV chip cards and dipping and waiting, is, frankly, surprising. Of course, in reality at most of the places in the U.S.

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Apple Mobile Cards Payments 165

Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Online insurance. Financing solutions for retailers & manufacturers. HQ: Austin, Texas. Prepaid debit card for youth. HQ: Austin, Texas. Micro-payments for online content. Tags: SMB, merchant, payments, POS, point of sale, credit/debit cards, acquiring. Latest round: $134.5 Total raised: $134.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Retailers, QSRs and any other business that wants to enjoy true customer loyalty must walk the walk as well. One time, a few years back, Johnson was traveling to Austin for a business meeting. Johnson said this is how Yelp’s new plan to introduce card-linked offers strikes him — more like a coupon than a loyalty program.

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Austin Retail Meeting Branding 107

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Developer tools for mobile card acceptance . HQ: Austin, Texas. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. Online payments & collections platform. Tags: Credit cards, processing, SMB, merchants, developers, API, Finovate/FinDEVr alum. Source: Crunchbase. CardFlight. Latest round: $4.2

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Austin, Texas. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. Online foreign exchange services. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Latest round: $40 million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Twisted Road Founder and CEO Austin Rothbard, for instance, wanted his bike everywhere he traveled. Riders pay with credit cards, debit cards or PayPal.) Entrepreneurs often start companies because of an unsolved need in their own lives. He kept saying the same six words over and over again: “I wish I had my bike.”

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Austin Company Resources Cards 114

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Beyond WorkChew, Austin, Texas’ Reset allows consumers to use restaurants as co-working spaces, with options to access a site ranging from a drop-in day pass to a 10-visit pass and an unlimited monthly membership available for purchase with a major credit card. Almost everyone uses a free pass when first visiting the spaces.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 22, 2015

online banking are rarer than the (not-so) mythical fintech unicorn. The c redit and fraud monitoring is powered by CSIdentity (CSID), an Austin-based firm that says it powers 80% of the retail identity theft protection industry. We are always on the lookout for digital fee income opportunities. Fees in U.S.

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Mobile Austin Fraud Comparison 12

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. We discuss cashier-less checkout and other trends in our 2020 State of Retail Tech report.

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Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. Select VC Investors: Globespan Capital Partners, Austin Ventures.

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