PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. Robot Efforts. The company applied to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. A new lab store from 7-Eleven underscores the innovation wave that is taking place in the convenience store sector of retail – a sector ripe for change, disruption and growth. stores with the innovation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

It’s a landscape that has created an opportune environment for technological innovation. But how can a five-year-old digital native really stack up against companies that have been operating for decades — or even centuries?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. That’s kind of … the future that we see as well,” Xiao said, adding he believes that, in addition to online and app ordering, voice ordering will be one of the main drivers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. But not all innovation labs or tech hubs give rise to seamless tech progression. New Efforts. Lab Changes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As more retailers try to get more shoppers into their stores – not everything is about eCommerce, after all – new technologies are playing a big role. That technology promises to play a bigger role this holiday shopping season, according to an analysis. Related Innovation. That includes beacons. New Beacon Growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Morgan’s EMEA Head of Wholesale Payments Shahrokh Moinian, technological innovation is helping to unlock more opportunities for corporate treasurers to step up to this newfound strategic role of mitigating risk within their organizations. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P. That’s our No.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. And those payments, at least in general, are following larger consumer trends when it comes to methods and technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Aquilina previously spent almost eight years working in commercial card products at Mastercard prior to joining the Portland, Maine-based WEX. As part of a new strategy aimed at innovation, WEX is developing “cloud-native solutions on a microservices-based architecture” as a way to improve payment speed and efficiency, the company said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The good news, however, is that two-thirds of firms are cognizant of these issues and are actively moving away from manual processes, planning instead to embrace new technological solutions to upgrade their accounts receivable (AR) processes for more efficiency, speed and lower fees. We also found that 44.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

The company also set up a multi-million-dollar subsidy program to reduce operating costs and capital risks for their merchants, in an effort to help them get back to work safely and efficiently. An Opportunity for Innovation . As the situation evolves, Wang told Webster, the innovative responses are doing the same.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The pain points that accounts receivable (AR) teams most commonly experience can be boiled down to three underlying and related problems: continued reliance on manual AR management practices, and the resulting lack of speed and high operating costs associated with managing receivables. Reliance on manual processes has far-reaching effects.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2019

Data is where it’s at, and more credit unions (CUs) are waking up to the fact that without sophisticated analysis of customer data, they risk being left behind as financial institutions continue to adopt innovative digital technologies to please the modern consumer. Investment Trends. Among the most significant findings?

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Cisco

AUGUST 11, 2020

The first half of 2020 has demonstrated the remarkable adaptability of the financial services industry in the face of simultaneous disruption to economic, operational, and customer behavior conditions. Not surprisingly, technology solutions that enable business continuity in this environment are in high demand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Our surveys found that like most consumers and businesses, Main Street SMB owners thought in March that the lockdowns would last two or maybe three months tops. They want technology to expedite moving funds from their online sales into their bank accounts in real time. But even then, 58.4 percent of U.S. Cash Flow Woes.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 9, 2022

The unicorns of core banking systems have been running wild the past few weeks, and these frothy deals signal a future shift in how executives should view the world of financial technology. Fiserv’s main focus will be to position Finxact toward the broader “banking as a platform” tech market. Response From The Other Two Big 3 Players.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

While quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers and customers might view the same menu, they might not always be on the same page when it comes to technology and innovation. However, a look at recent data found that many QSRs are not exactly quick to implement customers’ preferred innovations. About The Restaurant Readiness Index.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Not surprisingly, there’s been an evolution over the past several years as the roster of providers and technologies has changed. Alternatively, perhaps these software firms and marketplaces might opt to partner with a provider that offers payments technology — or outsource that functionality altogether to an acquiring partner.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

That’s the question Brian Dorchester, EVP of Operations at First American Payment Systems , explored in this week’s Commanders In Chief series. The industry, he noted, was fairly stagnant for about 15 years before the more recent wave of innovation swept over the space. Security comes first, said Dorchester.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

But with new restaurants also come new or expanded digital initiatives – part of the overall trend, documented by PYMNTS research, of QSRs getting smarter about eCommerce and mobile tech, even as restaurant managers and customers often have differing views about which service and payments innovations work best. Chipotle’s Digital Gains.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Or that, on average, 15 percent of an FI’s annual operating costs go toward maintaining core banking systems that are outmoded? AI is poised to make a profound impact on the banking sector,” Ariff Kassam , chief technology officer at NuoDB, told PYMNTS. Cloudy, With A Chance of Innovation. It’s true, but not for long.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

That’s why payments innovation isn’t just about delivering a solution, but delivering one that can create efficiency and reduce risk in a secure manner. ML: As executive vice president and CIO, I am responsible for the technology and security solutions we provide and how they are positioned in the marketplace.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Despite a challenging 2020, we have shown our mettle, turning challenges into growth opportunities with agility and constant innovation,” Klook Co-Founder and CEO Ethan Lin said in the release. Klook concentrated on two main areas: digitizing the experiences booking sector and launching new verticals like staycations and car rentals.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Once consumers reach the app’s main screen, they can find photos of the product that is up for sale that day, along with options for colors and sizes, and make a purchase, if they so choose. And payment innovators are taking note, with Samsung Pay bringing new shopping and rewards features to its mobile payment service.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Innovation is both genesis and lifeblood for companies, especially within the payments space. PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: How would you define Applause’s approach to innovation? Our approach to innovation is two-fold. Innovation is only valuable if it’s usable.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. For example in Argentina it was the first P2P lender to operate with the approval of the regulator, under a trust structure where Afluenta administers the trust and the money is out of its estate.

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Bobsguide

APRIL 27, 2022

Bank will accelerate its cloud strategy with Finastra’s Fusion KTP in the cloud, enabling faster access to innovation and a proactive approach to global treasury management. The move will enable the bank to harness a fully integrated treasury management platform and gain faster access to innovation and time to market. About Finastra.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. FIs themselves struggle with fully understanding how this industry operates, too.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

I’d written back in January that “the 2020s promise to bring about a convergence of the technology and innovations that have defined the last 10 years — to bring about new disruptions as the web shifts into higher gear, mobile becomes ever more popular and vital, homes and automobiles become hotbeds of commerce. smaller.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This prospective growth can largely be attributed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the region’s main regulator, which announced in June 2018 that it would grant five digital banking licenses to third-party companies. The news set off a high-stakes race among today’s top global eCommerce, finance and technology players.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The small business owner is literally doing everything themselves and once they step into the real world of operating a business and managing employees it is a huge amount of complex work,” Hollis told Karen Webster in a recent interview. Or at least, that has been the status quo up until very recently.

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