PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. million, and $1 million more than the cost to air a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. Then again, so is winning the Super Bowl, yet someone manages every year. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth!

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. They get completely annihilated when they are wrong,” Active Alts’ Brad Lamensdorf, portfolio manager of the SQZZ ETF, said in a phone interview with CNBC.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. One panelist noted that, in general, IT systems are poorly managed, with executives agreeing that it is hard to attract the talent necessary to truly be proactive in the fight against cyberattacks; private and public collaboration is needed.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

” Here, a team of over 60 professionals in healthcare, design, IT, and project management work around a business strategy called design thinking. Founded: 2014. This simplifies the prescription filling process for patients and improves pharmacy inventory management. Founded: 2014. Start small. Founded: 1979.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 10, 2015

At least we are not in Boston. A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets. In 2014, our GDP growth was +2.4%; in the fourth quarter, it was +2.2% Stock market volatility began after the plunge in oil prices, as fear of the effects on energy companies emerged.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. I joked that I’d be a shoo-in for the job. All while keeping prices low for consumers.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. Is Mobile Fully Catching On?

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Source: ICBA NewsWatch Today, December 2014. It depends on if you look at where the puck is or where the puck is going to be.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our last funding news for Kensho was in November 2014, when the company raised $15 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs. Pictured (left to right): Kensho Head of Strategy and Business Development, Adam Broun, and CEO Daniel Nadler demonstrating Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Panowicz, who worked for fellow Finovate alum mBank as Senior Director and Managing Director from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2015, will be responsible for Kreditech’s product and technology departments. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ). Twitter : 6,790 followers. – FAB Score = 305. – Founded: 2008.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ). Twitter : 6,790 followers. – FAB Score = 305. – Founded: 2008.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction). ” –DCVC.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Summary: Affordable footwear retailer Aerosoles struggled to compete in an tough apparel market as it looked to balance affordability and comfort with changing fashion trends, while competing with even cheaper fast fashion chains. Aeropostale had been owned by private equity firm Palladin Consumer Retail Partners since 2014.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. MCBS, with a market cap of $705 million, and LTM revenues (net interest income plus fee income) of $125.5

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Managing money that doesn’t go as far — when it’s not tied up in debt payments — hugely affects how millennials budget and spend. “Cereal used to be the only breakfast option, [but] there’s a lot more to choose from than there ever used to be,” says Andrew Shripka, Kellogg’s associate director of brand marketing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes. The nine or 10 years that smartphones and apps have existed is a digital lifetime in developed markets like the U.S. Then, it managed to get the timing exactly right. and the U.K.,

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Former Tesla Autopilot manager hired as CTO of self-driving tech subsidiary. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S. No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. More than 38 percent of the market is the domain of 50 large firms, up 11 percent from 1997. Economists don’t think so.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Our Fizzle/Sizzle picks for the week.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. Kohl’s can move into smaller markets where a larger store may not fit. We happen to be in both.”

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Alberta Investment Management Corporation, Artis Capital Management. The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Innovation Lab Name: One Market Center. Telecommunications.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market.

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