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AdoreMe: Giving Lingerie A High Tech Touch

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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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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. That was then.

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Nordstrom Brings On Former Amazon Exec

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If Nordstrom is looking to strengthen its eCommerce capabilities, the retailer certainly looked to the right place in a recent hire. In announcing Srinivasan’s hiring, shares CSA, Nordstrom highlighted its new CTO’s experience developing “highly innovative customer-focused outcomes” and cloud expertise.

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Big Banks Steal The B2B VC Show

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Unfortunately, for the world of B2B payments, those B2B startups seem to be serving more of the retail crowd. Case in point: Soundtrack Your Brand, which raised $11 million last week to provide retail stores with a music soundtrack service — not exactly the showcase for investor support of business FinTech.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products. And what was the product?

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Finovate Debuts: Innofis Enhances the UX for Banks and Customers

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Customers shouldn’t be the only ones enjoying a great user experience. That’s the driving factor behind Innofis , a company that furnishes a suite of digital banking tools providing a beautiful user experience for both bankers and their customers. Founded in 2012. Privately owned. 80+ employees. €6M

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What 10 Top CEOs Said About Payments This Summer

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Contactless launched in New York City, retail earnings season was an ongoing rollercoaster, Facebook decided to digitally mint its own currency, the iPhone lost its dominant footing, Prime Day made all the money and Elon Musk and Jack Ma debated whether AI will be humanity’s future or the end of us all. Brian Cornell, CEO of Target.

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