PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Though it’s easy to see why other happenings in and around the country have overshadowed Brazil’s tech community, Rio de Janeiro’s tech scene is quickly earning notoriety. In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation. A decade of online payments innovation. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan. An inaugural Jan. Notably, at the Atlanta event, participants from Visa, Square and Yelp will participate in the workshops.

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BankInovation

JULY 21, 2020

It’s a business plan the former community bank, which was founded in 1987, spent years developing and continues to improve today. “As As far back as 2013-2014, in that time frame, we did a couple […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

COS Managing Director Marie Honda said in a statement, according to the report, “It is important for us to try new approaches — testing and collaborating to achieve the best outcome for our customer and community — as well as the future of our business.” It is now gearing up for global growth starting with Germany.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

During the autumn of 2014, there was some disagreement within the walls of the eCommerce giant, as many of the team building what would become the Echo — members of Lab126, Amazon’s hardware division — favored the name “Alexa” for what would become the device’s “wake word” that initiates a user’s ability to give it voice commands.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Our clients showed banking at its best – obsessed with customer well-being, good corporate citizenship, and strong community focus. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar! Bravo Brett and team!

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

To be American is to have the freedom to innovate, take risks, create, transform and put in the hard work that has led to the successes – and failures – that define human progress. Many innovators with great ideas and great potential do not begin with great wealth, so they need a great government partner to support their success.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

How millennials will accelerate innovation and technology change. You recognize one of today’s most prominent technology dilemmas for community banks: It’s the great mobile divide. workforce by the end of this decade and represent community banking’s future best customers, are devoted to easy-access mobile technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

For some entrepreneurs, innovative ideas can strike at literally any time – and for Monica + Andy founder Monica Royer , her business concept certainly hit her at an interesting time. I was so surprised when I had my daughter, and I realized there had been no innovation in what your baby wears in the hospital,” Monica Royer told Forbes. “I

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Nobody understands this more intrinsically than the nation’s community banks. Security, along with trusted financial products and expertise, is a foundation of every community bank’s franchise value. Today, community banks must defend against a staggering barrage of relentless, highly sophisticated cyberthreats.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Eventually, Smith and his co-founders started finding traction with the concept — meaning they began to hear yes instead of no — and Cotopaxi launched in April 2014 with $3 million in seed funding. In early days, that human connection was made with a llama — and an experiment in experiential retail called Questival.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Retailer Hudson’s Bay got story started in early April with the disclosure that Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised. “We While personal data, including birthdays, may have been accessed, the retailer said that Social Security numbers were not. Department Store Hacks.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

Mobile 105

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 23, 2015

Five Finovate alums – including three innovative bank partners – have made it to the finals of the BAI Global Banking Innovation Awards 2015. Lending Club , Moven , and PayItSimple will compete for top honors in the “Most Innovation Non-Bank Financial Services Organization Award.” Innovation in Payments.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? trillion failed. Then depositors woke up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

When he returned a few years later on vacation, he started wearing the simple, slip-on canvas shoes and realized he discovered the innovation the world needed. TOMS Shoes helped communities but created some major costs in the process. Mycoskie, while competing with his sister in Argentina, spotted the local alpargata shoes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS, Bradley Wiskirchen, CEO of fraud protection tech firm Kount, detailed the landscape of online fraud, where it is going, and the challenges and opportunities that confront innovative fraud detection. BW: It’s hard to pick just one – but here is one that I think underscores our approach to innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Study after study shows they expect innovative financial solutions to come from tech startups and leading tech companies like Google, Apple and others, rather than financial institutions themselves. Here are three things to consider: Recognize that you might have retail customers who also operate small businesses.

Millennials 40

Millennials Study Retail Community Bank 40

Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

This is according to a new report from BNY Mellon, entitled Innovations in Payments: The Future is FinTech , which argues that banks must have a clear plan in place for adapting to this new, technology-driven era. Total investment in such ventures reached $12 billion in 2014, triple the previous year’s figure.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, there’s also no App Store if all the customers walk away, which is a trend that’s been going on since 2014, according to comScore. In the whitepaper, Spheris says it will employ a system of filters, ranking algorithms, software screening techniques and community input to weed out bad apps. More than half of U.S.

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Google Apple Software blockchain 169

PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of mPOS imitators — the small problem was $2,000 worth of handblown glass that artisan Jim McKelvey couldn’t close the deal and sell. Launched in 2014 as the firm’s lending arm, Square Capital has extended over $1 billion in working capital to over 100,000 small merchants.

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FICO

JUNE 25, 2020

The arrival of the car in that context reminded me of work that Professor David Simchi-Levi did with Ford Motor Company on supply chain resiliency, which earned him a Wagner Prize in 2014. The concepts he presented caught some attention beyond the academic community. And then 2020 happened. by Leo Lopes.

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2016

No one denies that online and mobile tools—particularly the deluge of apps that banks have developed and released—have changed many customers’ interaction with the local retail outlet. In between 1970 and 2014, there was a stunning disparity between the launch of new branches and corresponding population growth.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

AUGUST 30, 2016

Indeed, China gives us a very accurate glimpse at the #cardmaggeddon (the time at which cards will cease to dominate non-cash retail payments by volume) approaching in developed markets. Meanwhile, the banks aren’t doing too well out of the mobile payments revolution either. And don’t forget to check us out on Twitter #TTTU2016.

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CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Learn how Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, Zara, and other retailers are using AI to reinvent the brick-and-mortar store. Why physical retail still matters. to $355.9B

Retail 49

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 23, 2015

. “Our Larky-powered rewards program will produce tangible savings for members and create stronger and longer-lasting relationships that improve the health of our community-based credit union,” said Lake Trust CU SVP for Brand, Strategy + Culture, Danielle Brehmer.

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CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

INNOVATION IS MORE THAN FANCY JOB TITLES. Get the free 31-page State of Innovation report to find out how 677 corporate strategy execs are driving change and growth. Innovation Evangelist. Both SAP and Google have employed an innovation evangelist in years past. Innovation Alchemist. Retail Jedi. SVG Badass.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

As a result, consumers can ultimately lose confidence or faith in their favorite brand or retailer. WeGoLook has been focused for seven years on adding very specific types of Lookers into the community, ensuring a client can dispatch a Looker who can speak Mandarin or Spanish, install electronics, etc. Canada, Australia and U.K.,

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 8, 2017

The company announced last month that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with fellow Finovate/FinDEVr veteran Fidor Bank ( F11; FD16 ) that will make Token’s software available within Fidor AG’s digital banking and open community middleware technology, Fidor OS. ” InsurTech.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”. UBER: THE ROAD FROM RIDESHARING TO CONTEXTUAL COMMERCE 2.0.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

It’s a big market today (which will be an exponentially bigger market tomorrow), one that innovators from all over technology, retail, payments and financial services are rushing to get in on at the ground floor, even though that ground floor itself is being built underneath them. So, where to look to understand what’s next? “The

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