PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. The report found some good news for the corporate banking divisions of FIs, however.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. More to Love became an official business in 2013 and only continued to grow from there. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. That’s why these industry giants make a point of giving the little guys a leg up whenever possible.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. Amazon has only been in Mexico since 2013 when it launched its Kindle e-books site there. In addition to the second headquarters Amazon plans to build in whichever U.S. The planned facility would triple the company’s distribution space in the country.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Founded in 2013, the firm has recently raised its first ever capital round of $45 million after almost five years of bootstrapping. Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We We want to be there for people who want a long-term athletic lifestyle,” CEO Daniel Sobhani told a tech outlet.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In second place was Massachusetts, with 13 deals worth $247M — including Boston-based DataRobot’s $100M late-stage mega-round, which was backed by DFJ Growth Fund, Intel Capital, and New Enterprise Associates. The vast majority of AI deal activity took place in California, which saw 53 deals totaling $1.9B.

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Abrigo

APRIL 1, 2015

Their article also highlighted eight considerations bank directors can use to help evaluate their risk oversight. One important consideration is the use of a formal risk appetite statement or document.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2017

Or you happen to be the Boston-based QSR chain, starting about 2013. There’s usually not a whole lot of drama in the burritos and smoothies business, well, unless one decides to order a Cajun burrito, extra spicy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce store,” ShipBob Co-Founder Divey Gulati told PYMNTS in an interview. “We According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners , some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. Indeed, when he was talking to potential Aspiration investors back in 2013 and 2014, he told Webster, his vision didn’t exactly spark confidence among the people with money. “It It made for some very short conversations,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. “We need to be open to discussing it and working through it,” said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, referring generally to bank charters for FinTech companies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

RI and YG: Since we started in 2013, we’ve expanded to now fifteen major markets, including Austin, TX; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Manayunk, PA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; State College, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Tucson, AZ and Washington, D.C.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

What’s more, 20 percent of the companies that suffered financial losses from payment fraud said their biggest losses stemmed from wire transfer fraud, up from 9 percent in 2013. Wire fraud incidents nearly doubled to 27 percent in 2014, from 14 percent a year earlier, according to the 2015 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

billion since 2013. targeted geographic areas are Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City. The rate of cyber-related SAR filings has grown so significantly that FinCEN now receives approximately 80,000 per year. The 12 major U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store. We researched a breadth of merchants in the Top 500 based on total U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Exit: Purchased by PayPal in 2013 for $800 million. FinovateSpring 2013 demo. Founded: 2013. FinovateFall 2013 demo. HQ: Boston. FinovateSpring 2013 demo. FinovateSpring 2013 demo (under the name OpenCoin). FinovateEurope 2013 demo. Founded: 2013. Founded: 2013. Betterment.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 6, 2016

Meisner called it a “rare opportunity” and arrives at the company after serving as chief counsel and CCO for Boston-area alternative investors, RA Capital Management and Regiment Capital Advisors. Previous to this, Meisner spent four years as a Branch Chief for the SECs Division of Enforcement. The company has raised $23.8

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Boston Children’s Hospital created an in-house innovation accelerator.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Hoyos Labs was founded in December 2013 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Boston, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Bucharest, Beijing, and Oxford (U.K.). Hoyos Labs joined the FIDO Alliance in March. The company demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2014.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 27, 2016

The company’s venture arm invested an undisclosed amount in the Boston-based company, adding t0 Quantopian’s $23.8 Founded in 2011, Quantopian CEO John Fawcett and CTO Jean Bredeche debuted Quantopian Live Trading at FinovateSpring 2013. million in funding and marking one of the first investments for Point72 Ventures.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. I recall three years ago at Innovation Project 2013 that a rather prescient panelist said that the payments system’s worst nightmare would be having the SWIFT network breached. You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2016

“Generally speaking, the SAT is not very important,” McGrath said in 2013. The Princeton Review lists SAT Test Prep courses in the Boston area for between $780-$7,800, depending on the scope and depth of the courses. Marilyn McGrath , the h ead of undergraduate admissions at Harvard , famously noted that the No.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Quantopian demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2013.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Quantopian demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2013.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

PYMNTS recently caught up with Keith Duncan, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Favor, a store-to-door service officially launched in 2013, to find out more about the digital delivery space and its role in bringing restaurants into the omnichannel ecosystem. Satisfying consumers’ cravings for convenience.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Recently featured in a review of Boston-area startups , Kensho was named to OnFinance’s “50 Companies to Watch” roster in April. Founded out of MIT and Harvard in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kensho demoed Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

But the founding story for Tracksmith about looking around the market in 2013 and realizing there was a need to be met is somewhat eye-catching simply because of the group it chose to serve: runners. And the Boston-based brand’s only shop is located right next to the finish line for the Boston Marathon.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

” Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Veridium demonstrated the mobile app of its identity assertion platform at FinovateFall 2014. Oxford and London), as well as in Boston, Massachusetts; and Timisoara, Romania. The company also has offices in the U.K.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

” LoopPay was founded in August 2013 and remains headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts post-acquisition. . “And consumers are not going to adopt if they can’t use a vast majority of their cards at a vast majority of merchants.” The post Loop-Powered Samsung Pay Launches appeared first on Finovate.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But consumer visits to branches have been declining at a pace of 5 to 10 percent a year for all financial institutions alike, says Bob Meara, financial retail service analyst for the Celent, a Boston research and consulting firm. A recent ICBA poll found that 16 percent of member community banks operate contact centers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Therefore, said Isak Ladegaard, a Boston College sociologist focused on dark web markets, this move by Hansa, while noble, is unlikely to reduce traffic of the drug. Former dark web marketplace Silk Road was taken down in 2013, as was its sequel site in 2014. “Seasoned users expected this,” said Ladegaard. ”

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 9, 2015

Payday loans and deposit advance products first appeared on the CFPB’s unified agenda in the Spring of 2013 , and Bureau staff have since published two whitepapers on the matter—one in April 2013 and another in March 2014.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

One such company is Le Tote , which launched in 2013 while presenting itself as a “Netflix for clothing”. Last year, according to CNBC, the startup — which operates on a subscription model — shipped more than 1.5 million items.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

By 2013, those numbers had deteriorated — and by a lot. The “crisis” in traditional retail is one we’ve documented very well over the years — flagging the issue of retail’s death spiral some three years ago when reports about the decline in foot traffic over the holiday season in 2013 surfaced.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 2008 and 2013, investors increased the amount of money under management in ETFs by more than 3x, with nearly half of that going into ETFs issued by BlackRock. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

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