PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

The pandemic has fast-tracked that digitization, however, as concerns and restrictions have led members to reduce their branch visits and turn to contactless features to carry out their banking activities online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The shops are 300 square feet and are in the following locales: in New Jersey, Union; in New York, Huntington Station and Farmingville; and in Florida, Boca Raton, Tampa, Lakewood Ranch, Dunedin, Palm Harbor and Lake Mary. So far, the health retailer has opened nine locations inside LA Fitness chains.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The shops are 300 square feet and are in the following locales: in New Jersey, Union; in New York, Huntington Station and Farmingville; and in Florida, Boca Raton, Tampa, Lakewood Ranch, Dunedin, Palm Harbor and Lake Mary. So far, the health retailer has opened nine locations inside LA Fitness chains.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

New York-based SMB lender SellersFunding has acquired AmzLenders as it works to expand its reach with eCommerce sellers and take on Amazon. New Jersey-baed AmzLenders was founded by Amazon seller Steve Creasy, who will act as a consultant to SellersFunding over the transition period. “If Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2017

The new eCommerce fulfillment center will be located in Plainfield, Indiana, and Kohl’s expects to begin shipping Kohls.com online retail orders from the new location by the end of this month. 2017 will be located in Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey and California.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

From ticketing platforms such as Gametime to payments companies such as Visa , innovators are harnessing the power of mobile. In New Jersey, for instance, mobile sports betting is growing to the point where the state is reportedly near topping Las Vegas as the country’s biggest market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Much of that has been about digital upgrades – adding online inventory, BOPIS services , curbside delivery, in-app payments, touchless payments, same-day delivery offerings … the list goes on and on. Some are innovating on the holiday classics like the Christmas tree to add a bit more to the merry and bright sales tally.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering the ability to open an account online can be one way to reach customers who are unable to join your community bank in person. That includes allowing customers to open accounts completely online,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s senior vice president and chief innovation officer. Miller is a writer in New Jersey.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The Vitamin Shoppe , for instance, reimagined a 3,185 square-foot space in Edgewater, New Jersey, building off the footprint of an existing store to debut an “innovation retail concept” per an announcement. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Dollar General Corp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

-based Niantic , the company behind the mobile and augmented reality gaming behemoth Pokémon Go, is touting its growing role in the global tourism industry (which, as PYMNTS readers know , is undergoing its own digitally-fuel period of innovation and disruption). thanks to a U.S. thanks to a U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In May , Sears Holdings announced that it had expanded its leasing program to allow customers to finance a variety of products, both in-store and online. In addition, Sears offers an online estimator tool to help members estimate their payment with different payment schedules and lease amounts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

“Following an assessment of our operational structure in light of this progress, we identified an opportunity to further optimize our processes by transferring a substantial portion of our production volume from our Arlington, Texas facility to our largest and most efficient facility in Linden, New Jersey.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Though not venture capital, the private equity raised for New Jersey-chartered community bank Cross River Bank is noteworthy not only for its impressive price tag of $100 million, but for its reflection of investors’ support for financial institutions that collaborate with the tech startup scene. Cross River Bank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

history, but a part of global economic development stretching back centuries: First comes innovation, then comes growth based on that innovation (not just economic, but cultural and other forms of growth), then comes the regulatory backlash. It’s a process that stands not only as a familiar feature of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Supreme Court ruled in May that states may legalize sports betting — it was already allowed in Nevada — four other states have approved such wagering: Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey and West Virginia. Iowa, for instance, is considering letting casinos and racetracks offer on-site and online wagering.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Online furniture retailers are stepping further into the world of physical retail with permanent brick-and-mortar stores. The new location comes with a digital innovation, the Wayfair Home Bar, which helps customers visualize how Wayfair’s products fit into a room. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

In fact, 62 percent of all Nordstrom brick-and-mortar storefronts are housed in so-called “MVP” (most valuable properties) malls that combine high foot traffic with high sales-per-square-foot ratios, and several malls, including ones in Boca Raton, Florida, and Short Hills, New Jersey, actually house all six retailers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Innovations include a Half Dome scent, which the company describes as “signature” and will transport shoppers to the great outdoors. The 8,000 square-foot-store is the first of multiple planned updates to locations for the brand, including Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Seattle, the company said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

The court’s decision allows individual states to open online gambling to residents. The subsequent legalization of sports betting in states like New Jersey promises to be a game changer for the companies that help gamblers lay their money down online. Authenticating New Accounts. com must clear.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

These payment options include EMV cards — which consumers can tap against point-of-sale (POS) terminals to avoid making direct contact — and mobile wallets such as Apple Pay , Google Pay and Samsung Pay , which consumers can use for both in-store and online payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Despite Amazon ‘s highly visible presence online, its network of warehouse and fulfillment centers that dot the globe is all but invisible — unless you know where to look. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia. .”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Recently, several players in the credit union market have worked to improve and increase the way their members can connect with their preferred credit unions through partnerships and tech innovations. The new Credit Union Tracker explores the latest developments shaking up the way credit unions engage with their members.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

From Vengo Labs to Carvana , digital innovators in a variety of industries and spaces are reinventing the vending machine concepts with new technologies and features. innovators have a new take on “coins” when it comes to vending machines. Europe’s 2017 share of the coin-operated vending machine production market is 30.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Today Fairway operates 15 stores in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area, as well as four liquor stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

Prices may change as Walmart phases in machine learning and more advanced algorithms to its pricing system, but the new prices will likely be more appropriate, since they’ll be based on data and analytics. Online shoppers will be able to pick up their orders at in-store automated pickup towers or at pickup stations in store parking lots.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Marc Mastronardi, the retailer’s EVP of New Business Development and Innovation, told CNBC in February, “overwhelmingly, what we think makes this so attractive for Macy’s and our customers is it continues to drive customers to stores by giving a constant break of discovery.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

His concept would become Spirit Halloween Superstores , which he later sold to New Jersey-based Spencer Gifts. As Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara renovates its flagship store in a London mall, for example, it has come up with an innovative solution to sell to customers: opening a digitally enhanced pop-up store in the same building.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Austin residents officially went online with Amazon Fresh this week, meaning Amazon Prime members can get free two-hour grocery delivery on orders of $35 or more and one-hour delivery for $4.99. Amazon has regularly been in and out of the $1 trillion zone – as have Microsoft, Apple and Google parent company Alphabet – in recent months.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The beauty of online grocery shopping is that you can add to your order throughout the week and at the very moment you remember that you need something,” said Cat de Merode, Peapod’s vice president of product. We love new technologies, particularly when they fit so naturally into household planning.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. A similar law recently passed in New Jersey, and it seems New York is on the way to following suit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

We say defense because it was apparent from early in the hearing that the senators gathered were more than a little suspicious of Facebook’s latest innovation — and less than favorably inclined to letting it move forward. Marcus went on to reaffirm Facebook’s commitment that it would not look to bring Libra online in the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Hats off to Greg for taking a $600 million credit union to a $5 billion innovator over his 25 years at the helm. Greg also leaves the organization knee-deep in technical innovation as PSECU has deployed Corelation core, Kony digital, Temenos origination and Sitecore CMS among other new solutions. Bank Sale of the Year.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 30, 2013

Vernon Hill, legendary leader of the former Commerce Bank in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, took advantage of the last time bankers were contemplating the future of branching by beating them over the head with his high profile and rapidly expanding branches. The Financial Brand did a showcase piece on innovative branch designs.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

//Jeff Marsico remarks to the 2023 New Jersey Bankers' Association Annual Convention: May 19, 2023// Four decades ago, the prolonged savings-and-loan crisis devastated the industry. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 trillion failed. What caused a dot-com bubble?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

picks up Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc. It is an innovator with tech (e.g., mobile, remote capture); it partners with the likes of Google, Schwab and TrueCar; and its talent is active every day with 150+ agile team members creating new capabilities and the highest Net Promoter Score in banking. Bank Acquisition of the Year.

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