PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Kicking off this week’s grocery tracker, Whole Foods Market (WFM) shares hit their highest level seen since the summer of 2015 as activist investor Jana Partners puts the squeeze on innovation and pressures the organic grocer towards a possible sale. Recovery has been slow for the national grocer since prices fell in February.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

With initiatives like the Faster Payments Task Force and the Secure Payments Task Force, the Fed is pushing for innovation and progress in the nation’s payments infrastructure and market. Sapenaro said B2B payments, too, are finally experiencing innovation and progress, but it still has a long way to go.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

AppHarvest is working to build indoor farms, combining the conventional agriculture technique with innovative tech to grow affordable fruits and vegetables at scale, the release stated. billion in funding to accelerate manufacturing, product development and distribution into key national grocery, restaurant, and hospitality venues.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. McDonald’s later pivoted to healthier offerings, announcing in 2015 that it was committed to sourcing 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2025. That will all change on Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cotten didn’t file personal tax returns for 2014, 2015 or 2017 and his 2016 return didn’t report any income from Quadriga, and Robertson’s tax returns from 2015 and 2016 showed income of less than C$60,000 a year, while in 2017 there was income of less than C$5,000 — but none of it from Quadriga.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Customers visiting OXXO’s 14,000 locations can receive their funds by completing their payout information independently via one of three options — calling a national hotline in advance or using dedicated in-store phones and digital devices. billion was received in Mexico in 2015, an 8.7 percent increase versus 2014.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company, founded in 2015, provides insurance online with an efficient online purchase experience for users, a smart home kit with eligible policies and coverage available for things like appliances, electronics and home office, according to the press release. a national property and casualty insurer. billion at that time.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Freshly is an innovative, fast-growing, food-tech startup, and adding them to the portfolio accelerates our ability to capitalize on the new realities in the U.S. Freshly, which was established in 2015, provides a collection of chef-cooked, fresh meals to customers across the nation. The deal was inked and closed on Friday (Oct.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. Name: Woodforest National Bank. Doug Schaeffer, Woodforest National Bank. Doug Schaeffer, Woodforest National Bank. By Aileen McDonough. Assets: $9 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than 13,000 entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the Open Innovations forum to discuss tech advancements in the nation in late Oct. million, and the 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking listed it as the 13th best city in the world to launch a startup. The population in Moscow is 12.2 million | Population of Moscow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Meet Shark Wheel, a company that has literally invented a wheel that’s not round and added some innovation to the eCommerce space by partnering with a new one-click checkout system. In fact, while other companies are looking for VC money to grow and innovate, Shark Wheel is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

This is great validation that the world’s most innovative tech companies recognize the positive impact Gojek is making in Indonesia and the whole of Southeast Asia,” said Gojek Co-CEO Andre Soelistyo in a statement. “By Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

A “blueprint” that includes best practices and guidelines for setting up innovation hubs will be released by the final quarter of 2018 for regulatory “sandboxes.” Some national watchdogs offer these controlled environments (or “sandboxes”) to FinTech firms for testing new applications on real customers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

million between 2015 and 2017 through the Finnish bitcoin exchange. Through a video quoted by the outlet, Tyler said, “The idea is that companies that build on top of things like Bitcoin should have regulation that’s thoughtful and that doesn’t stifle innovation.” dollars, The Telegraph reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

Chicago’s population is 2,720,546 (2015). billion (2015). Chicago’s median household income is $48,522 (2015). MH: National recognition is a challenge for Chicago startups, although that is improving. MH: People should know that Chicago offers a level of skill and innovation equal to any other place globally.

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NCR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Growth and innovation. The latest Trust Index from the UAE Banks Federation (UBF), published in December 2016, revealed that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of respondents to a survey described their view of banks as “very positive”, up from 70 percent in 2015.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Apple Pay has been available in Australia sine late 2015 – when it first launched in a limited fashion through a partnership between Apple and American Express. “The request by the applicant banks would slow innovation and reduce choice by protecting members of the cartel from competition with each other,” states the letter.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

Forget millennials, that consumer segment that is blamed for the downfall of most everything while also being the target of many innovative efforts. So much retail and payments innovation takes place in China, and, in a sense, that holds true when it comes to single consumers. Shifting Tide. Singles’ Day.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This week, our Tech Center Roundup heads to Belarus to see how the nation has become one of the largest and most established places in Europe for information technology outsourcing. The nation is known for its well-educated population and low labor costs. The nation is known for its well-educated population and low labor costs.

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Cisco

AUGUST 9, 2022

In 2015, following a significant increase in nation state and hacktivist attacks on U.S. It creates five levels of maturity, from baseline to innovative, and we use these to measure preparedness of the processes and controls for five risk domains: Cyber Risk Management and Oversight. Threat Intelligence and Collaboration.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

La Plata County commissioner Marsha Porter-Norton champions First Southwest Bank’s innovative lending. The First Southwest Community Fund (FSWCF) was created in 2015 to provide risk-mitigating gap funding for its lending programs. It’s one reason why she’s a customer of the bank. Photo courtesy First United Bank & Trust Company.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

EMarketer also found that nearly two-thirds of millennial internet users searched social networks for coupons in the third quarter of 2015. However, the latest innovative omnichannel technologies, like digital in-store technologies, are being overlooked by most of the industry. For millennials, that number is 90 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

Alexander, at PYMNTS’ Innovation Project 2016 last week at Harvard, gave a sobering reality check about the cybersecurity threats that could become an even scarier reality in the click of a button. We aren’t where we need to be today,” Alexander said in March 2015. And we can thank innovators and new technologies for that.

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Bankelele

JUNE 24, 2015

Burbidge Capital also found that Kenya’s merger & acquisition deals slowed down in 2015 – with 11 M&A deals so far compared to 17 in the first four months of 2014. Treasury secretary Henry Rotich said National Bank would be merged with another bank before it’s planned rights issue. in UAP Holdings. million by AFB Kenya.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Though Argentina has suffered its fair share of economic setbacks — a $3 billion trade deficit in 2015, years of heavy state control and exchange rate fluctuations, just to name a few — the country is continuing to hold its own as a global tech hub. Latin America’s fourth-largest economy may actually be one to watch.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

South Korea topped Bloomberg’s 2015 Innovation Index , gaining the highest overall score across six measurements: research and development, manufacturing, high-tech companies, education, research personnel and patents. The number of startups in South Korea rose to 30,000 as of Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

But the move is also part of a broader effort to keep corporate payments up to speed with consumer payment innovation, the financial institution said. Bank became the first in the nation to link its Visa commercial cards to the online payments solutions Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay earlier this year. labor force. .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 6, 2015

It turns out that 17 of the companies are already based in Silicon Valley and will not need to travel far to get to the City National Civic Center on Tuesday morning. The post FinovateSpring 2015: Fintech Across America & Beyond appeared first on Finovate. We’ll be hosting companies from 23 states and six countries.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Another week, another Amazon expansion/innovation. The Launchpad program, which debuted in summer 2015 , was designed to enable and accelerate startups by assisting with product distribution via custom product pages. The Dash button debuted in 2015 and allows instant ordering at the push of a literal button for Amazon Prime Members.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2015

FinovateSpring 2015 is right around the corner (have you picked up your ticket yet? ). And we are as excited as ever to see live and up close what our roster of 72 fintech innovators has in store. We think you’ll like what you see on stage this year at FinvoateSpring 2015 in terms of our live demos. City National Bank.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Scores for most merchants increased from Q2 2015 to Q4 2015 before stagnating in Q1 2016. Index scores for the bottom 10 percent of companies rose briefly during Q2 2015 before plummeting by nearly 20 percent between Q3 2015 and Q1 2016. The interesting thing is that size really doesn’t matter.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

According to the National Retail Federation , DSW began its push to an omnichannel network four years ago under previous CEO Michael MacDonald, who believed the company needed to evolve into an omnichannel retailer to survive in the competitive world of mobile and eCommerce. No one ever said the retail business is easy.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The number of workers was slightly higher in 2015 than in 2001, according to the National Restaurant Association, which opposes minimum wage hikes. percent annually through 2024, in line with the national average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jobs in the leisure industry will increase by 0.6

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 13, 2015

Going into this year’s tally of FinovateSpring 2015 ballots, it was anybody’s guess which companies had won the hearts and minds of our attendees and would take home one of our coveted Best of Show awards. As always, thanks to everyone who attended and participated in FinvoateSpring 2015. We hope you enjoyed the show!

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