CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. We’ve assembled a list of innovation labs from some of the most recognizable names in retail looking to disrupt their industries. Get the 54-page retail report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

Peter Diamandis, Chairman/CEO of The X-Prize Foundation and Singularity University , made that point very clear during his keynote speech at PYMNTS’ Innovation Project 2016 last week. ” Kodak just didn’t understand the rapid growth of exponential technology. Talk about a cautionary tale, huh?

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

This is fueling a wave of interest and need for digital alternatives, many of which leverage biometric technology. The technology itself is not new — many consumers already use biometric authentication in their daily lives, with 80 percent of consumers using their fingerprints to unlock their smartphones, for example. Pennsylvania Gov.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Advertising technology Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firm Mediaocean has formed a blockchain partnership with Amino Payments for transparency and accountability in digital advertising, Mediaocean announced on Tuesday (Jan. It combines blockchain, advertising and payment technologies to enforce transparency in online advertising.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Lucaciu is the chief technology officer of Adore Me , an eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailer that has adjusted to disruptive changes in its market, including the bankruptcy of the parent company of Victoria’s Secret. Since it was founded in 2012, the company has grown to a team of 140 employees across the U.S.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Telehealth technology. Remote learning technology. Online grocery.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 21, 2016

Since 2012, it has been the fastest growing technology in banking. That’s the word out of Digital Banking 2016 here, where bankers outnumber entrepreneurs (but not vendors). The mobile banking app traces its roots to SMS banking back in 1999. But it comes with Read More.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The tool uses facial analysis and bridges the gap, the company said, between online and in-person shopping. Since the very beginning, Younique has always been a brand at the forefront of technology,” said Younique Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer Melanie Huscroft. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

LISNR uses ultrasound technology to provide a solution that lets merchants and payment providers accept mobile payment data anytime during the customer journey. The technology works with all types of purchase scenarios – including scan-and-go, store pickups and eCommerce – and can also be used for messages, authentication and identification.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

But there’s another reason why the neo-challengers are so front-of-mind: They’re industry leaders in cultivating technology innovation and optimising customer service and experience. They also deliver innovative, easy-to-use apps that help users with things like managing their daily budget or travelling abroad. Customer growth.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

At the same time, bank branch closures appear to be accelerating, with small towns across the country losing a combined 14 percent of their banks between 2012 and 2017. For many of these smaller players, actually finding affordable, well-suited technologies to update their infrastructure and operations is the hardest part of modernization.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Ripple, the enterprise blockchain startup, today announced that it raised $55 million in Series B funding to accelerate customer adoption of its technology. million since its launch in 2012, according to Crunchbase. “I That brings Ripple’s total funding to $93.6 I think there’s Read More.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The technology running GoBank, partially inherited from the Sam Altman-led startup Loopt, acquired by Green Dot in 2012, now underlies the entire Green Dot Read More. GoBank … that’s that mobile bank account from Green Dot, right? The unprofitable offspring of the industry-leading prepaid card?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us in today’s technology-driven society. Founded in 2012, the AI startup specializes in data analytics for enterprises looking to quickly find data, similar to an online search engine. This latest part of ThoughtSpot’s VC funding puzzle was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Given the ever-changing landscape related to the COVID-19 pandemic, constant innovation is more critical than ever before when it comes to serving retailers and customers. Gucci 9” has been designed as an empty store that allows customers to shop online from continents away. The biggest room for innovation lies in experiential escapes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

Curing payment pains associated with complicated medical billing gets to the heart of how payments technology is moving medical money in smarter, faster ways. These industries are a little bit slower at adopting innovations because their systems are older and difficult to change. For many, it’s very difficult.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Also in January, Progressive Leasing and Marqeta , announced a technology partnership that aimed to enhance the checkout process for leasing customers. 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.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 27, 2016

MintChip was developed by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2012 and shuttered in 2014. Toronto-based payments platform nanoPay announced yesterday that it has raised $10 million in a Series A round in order to expand its business and offerings, most notably its open API platform, MintChip. In January 2016, the project was Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

The store is currently in a trial phase, but the company plans to roll out the SMARTCART computer vision technology by tech company IMAGR to more of its stores in 2019. To find the rest of the latest payments news, as well as the biggest headlines from around the space, check out the Tracker’s News and Trends section. About the Report.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 14, 2016

P2P payments were realtime within Chase since 2012, but now they are realtime among Read More. Bank, Bank of America, and as of yesterday, JPMorgan Chase. Bank and Bank of America joined the realtime network in March.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

percent, respectively, in 2012. A December 2018 SOTI study of Canadians aged 18 to 60 found that 78 percent would like in-store assistance from sales associates equipped with such technology, compared to 62 percent who desired self-serve offerings. These numbers are up from 18.5 percent and 21.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As Tabis explained , the problem with the flower market is opacity – whether the customer walks into their local florist or picks up their phone to order a quick bouquet online, they don’t really know where those flowers originated or how they were grown. As Tabis noted, it can ensure and certify those standards using the power of technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. Giving online shoppers a more personalized experience. We quickly realized that when it comes to an online store, it’s not just about having a catalog,” he explained. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to consumers. This isn’t Amazon’s first attempt at breaking into the luxury fashion market – the retail giant originally tried in 2012, but was not successful. Part of the problem is the eCommerce brand’s image.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

As of 2012, Dubai was the 22nd most expensive city in the world and the most expensive city in the Middle East. Dubai is considered to be a hotbed for financial technology and innovation, not just in the Middle East but globally. 2016, the inflation rate was 0.12 FinTech Hive Generates Buzz. Dubai’s ‘Smart City’ Transformation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

While the retail technology space has boomed just as quickly as commerce moved online, some sectors still relied on older management systems and tactics well after others had upgraded. “In Hariharan was tasked to work on developing technologies to move Amazon’s strategy and decision-making out of spreadsheets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

As Infermedica Co-Founder and CEO Piotr Orzechowski told Karen Webster, had it not been for gaming, he never would have founded his firm — or set out on a quest to innovate healthcare using artificial intelligence (AI) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to create a “virtual GP,” or general practitioner.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And it’s also where he sees innovation flourishing. We are starting to see consumers demanding things like order ahead or buy online, pick up in-store,” Ready said. Showrooming was the act of looking at an item in a physical store and then buying it online later (or, sometimes, right then and there) in order to save a few bucks.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The launch, he noted, allows PayPal merchants to offer installment payments to their shoppers without any new or different technological integration. Founded in 2012 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Affirm was something of an outlier when it entered the market with its POS installment lending product. Affirm Eyes the Public Markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

BBA also reported use of banking apps rose significantly by 356 percent between 2012 and 2017, with customers using apps more frequently to perform a variety of banking tasks beyond simply checking their account balances. Mobile technology has become deeply interwoven into the daily habits of U.K. million U.K. By some accounts 18.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. I would say around 2010, 2011, 2012, with Apple having mobile payments acceptance in stores, checking out on mobile devices, that’s where we saw transactions become much more personal,” Dasilva said of in-store retail experiences.

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