PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Established in June 2015 , the Secure Payments Task Force has engaged more than 200 financial institutions, consumer groups, payment service providers, financial technology firms, merchants, government agencies and others interested in payment security improvement efforts. “The

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mobile is one of the fastest-growing retail sectors at the moment and still projects to grow for years to come, but the technology is still not where most retailers want it. In 2015, mobile had great momentum. Currently, smartphone users make up about 64 percent of the U.S. population, but that number is expected to grow to 72.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With a big focus on technology in Silicon Valley and Boston, New York City slowly made its way to becoming a powerhouse tech player. Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about New York City and its tech scene: New York City’s population was 8,550,405 (2015). percent (2015). trillion (2012).

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Last year 111.9 More likely than not, you will be on the couch eating pizza.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Last year 111.9 More likely than not, you will be on the couch eating pizza.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

What’s in store for mobile in 2015? In 2014, mobile deposit capture technology became a staple for more than 3,000 banks and 33 million Americans. So what can community banks expect for mobile banking and mobile deposit capture in 2015? Mobile deposit will save Americans 282 million hours in 2015. By James DeBello.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The second type is a completely separate brand ring-fenced under a different technology stack, operating under the umbrella of the parent organization but effectively a separate entity. AI and bot technology : Bursting out of the gate in 2015/16, Banks have begun a mad dash towards AI and other bot technologies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

million in 2015 and projected to grow by $140 million by 2020. The tablet-based system’s simplicity has been helpful not only for daily operations but also to ease onboarding for new employees, Ma said, adding that their familiarity with the technology means they usually learn the system in about 10 minutes. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. With the multitude of new technology that has been integrated into the workforce over the past 20 years, baby boomers are at a point where they can no longer ignore it.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Indeed, it does not take extensive examination to see, in Wayne Gretzgy’s words, “where the puck is going” Digital needs to be a top technology priority among financial institutions – particularly in highly digitally-directed markets such as North America and Western Europe. Plenty of consumers still like stores.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

74 and 31 : Those are the numbers of company-owned and franchised restaurants, respectively, that Boston-based sandwich chain Cosi operated in 15 states before it filed for bankruptcy. $1 131 : That’s the number of successful cyberoperations Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre said it launched in 2015, compared to just 72 in 2014.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

What’s necessary or optional with technology is always changing. In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

What’s necessary or optional with technology is always changing. In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In May 2015, James and I met, and Oomf was born. For example, we have shareable smartphone chargers in 16 bars in restaurants in Boston Logan Airport. Imagine instead if there were snow shovels attached using a smart lock to every street lamp in Boston. PYMNTS: Since its 2015 inception, how much has Oomf grown year over year?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Just west of the Research Triangle in North Carolina, Charlotte’s technology industry has been slowly growing over the past few years. Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about Charlotte and its tech scene: The city had a population of 827,097 in 2015, making it the seventeenth largest city in the United States.

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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. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Kreditech demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The Reserve Bank of India said in a 2015 report that counterfeit notes had been on the rise, and the most commonly forged note was the 500-rupee denomination. The change was sweeping indeed, and the ban on the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes was targeted expressly by the prime minister.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The authentication infrastructure specialist unveiled its 4F biometric technology at the Biometrics 2015 show in London this week. The smartphone technology simultaneously captures four fingerprints and works in any environment, leveraging the mobile device’s photo flash as a light source.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

The two car rental giants are the poster children for the way technology may be making inroads into forcing an entire business model, well, off the road. In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it. Doubling Down On Tech.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

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. Having proper technological safeguards in place can be critical. With wire fraud on the rise, community banks have to step up precautions to protect themselves and their customers.

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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. The Mayo Clinic Departments of Information Technology and Public Affairs teamed up with CFI to create the Mayo Clinic App. Founded: 2015. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. Founded: 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. And companies must be judicious in how they approach commerce and technology: “Just because something can be connected, doesn’t mean that it should,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. And companies must be judicious in how they approach commerce and technology: “Just because something can be connected, doesn’t mean that it should,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Since its founding in 2015, Qüero has turned to brick-and-mortar pop-up shops to do just that — and now, the company is hoping advanced technology can allow it to reach customers in new ways. Attracting Customers, #IRL. These [pop-up shops] give customers a sense of security that they will get what they paid for.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Don’t get me wrong — I did miss being out and about (especially over this past weekend, since there is a lot of still very white snow here in Boston, which makes everything seem even more festive). On the sixth anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay in November, a PYMNTS study of some 7,585 U.S. consumers showed that of the 7.75 Share of U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When Mike Butler, CEO of Radius Bank, spoke of technology experimentation and implementation: "you have to change the culture in the company". In 2015 I wrote a post about creating a positive accountability culture. Mike is from Cleveland. And surprisingly a Yankees fan. resilience There I go. Culture, culture, culture.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Target also has tech operations set up in Boston, though the focus there is more on food with the Food + Future coLAB the Minnesota-based retailer opened in partnership with MIT’s Media Lab and design firm Ideo. billion a year on technology and supply chain initiatives by 2017, up from up $1.9 billion spent last year alone.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

In 2015, these two researchers went back into the lab to dive deeper. Research that we did in 2015 on this topic then reported that nearly 60 percent of all searches related to commerce started in Amazon. Consumers have other places now to “ask” for things – including social networks and Amazon for commerce.

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NCR

MARCH 3, 2016

According to The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston , 17% of the people who are involved in money counterfeiting are young people. Most of them are technologically savvy and they only need less than $1,000 to acquire all the equipment they need to get started in this line of business.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. It was a fun event, and provided some latitude to go off topic a little, including one of my favorite British comedy skits on Chip and PIN. Okay, I found it much funnier than the audience but that happens to me a lot.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Fresh off its FinovateFall 2015 appearance , the financial market data provider to many of fintech’s most innovative companies is spearheading a new initiative, the #FintechRevolution API Ecosystem. That’s at least if Xignite has anything to say about it. QuantConnect. Streamdata.io. StockTwits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Then, in December 2015, Amex pretty much shut down what was left of the “Revolution” and sent the stragglers packing. Ford sold 6.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2015

How Chain’s technology enables financial institutions to leverage digital assets. Adam began his career at The Boston Consulting Group and IDEO, and he holds an MBA from Harvard and a BS from UC Berkeley. How the blockchain is being applied in financial markets. A special announcement from Chain. Adam Ludwin, CEO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The Top 10 List retired with David Letterman in May of 2015. CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. million users, up from 9.2 Adyen’s Big IPO. billion euros.

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