PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment .

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Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

PYMNTS: Can you describe your personal and/or professional experience with the tech community in Greece? Throughout these years we have worked with the biggest Greek and multinational companies based in Greece, providing them innovative marketing solutions always on the edge of technology. How has it changed or grown in recent years?

Industry 118

Industry Los Angeles Technology Fintech 118

Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. or Idea Killers? Was I, gulp, a futurist?

Apple 65

Apple Millennials Massachusetts FDIC 65

Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five, as measured during September, 2011: #1 BofI Holdings, Inc. #2 and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise. No slouches there. #1.

Texas 78

Texas National FDIC Capital 78

PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. The shopkeepers I asked in the malls confirmed the waning foot traffic — not just that year, but also prior years. Okay, that might not be a newsflash.

Retail 309

Retail Online Maine Branding 309

Tech and Finance

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

banks have blocked real-time payments for years, mostly obviously in 2011 when they voted against making the ACH system real-time. When firms face excessive barriers to entering a market competition stagnates, prices remain high and innovation remains low.”. How community banks don’t trust TCH and want the Fed to provide RTGS.

System 38

System Payments Kansas City Community Bank 38

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For my grandmother, and others like her, shopping via television was both a novelty, something to occupy her time, and a way to feel a sense of community with the hosts and the other shoppers who’d call in and talk about their shopping experiences. And who tend to operate in national, and often regional, footprints.

Millennials 109

Millennials Video Maine Operations 109

Tomorrow's Transactions

AUGUST 30, 2016

Waitrose takes contactless, and they’ve implemented in properly (with CDCVM), so there’s no need to take cards as consumers are forced to do in less-developed nations. But guess what – I didn’t care. I had my phone in my hand, so I used that. It’s the future, you know….

Big Data 34

Big Data Mobile Cards Fintech 34

Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We think that Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, and the Federal Reserve, and the rest of “them”, whoever “they” are, are centralized monoliths running on papyrus and holding back innovation. despite such a site being a strong technical and market innovation. Where do *you* bank exactly? Or are we lost in the poetry of utopia?

Lending 52

Lending User Experience Google United States 52

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. Thanks to innovative new rental models, ownership is no longer essential. The class-based model also centers heavily around community and socialization, which reflects millennials’ hunger for social contact. The Cigna U.S.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

on the horizon, CRISPR has reached a new peak in interest from outside the scientific community. . To combat this issue, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley is applying CRISPR to create disease-resistant cacao. Using CRISPR for “germline modifications” is making the scientific community nervous.

System 78

System Study Industry Tools 78

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

on the horizon, CRISPR has reached a new peak in interest from outside the scientific community. . To combat this issue, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley is applying CRISPR to create disease-resistant cacao. Using CRISPR for “germline modifications” is making the scientific community nervous.

System 40

System Study Industry Tools 40

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. The bet was risky because it required large geographies — indeed, entire nations — to adopt the technology in order for it to scale successfully.

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Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78