Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Unsurprisingly, fast food patrons immediately began warring on social media about whether or not the results could be trusted. People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. Chick-fil-A’s average sales per restaurant in 2016 were $4.4

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Accenture

APRIL 26, 2017

For years, we’ve heard people proclaiming the demise of the bricks-and-mortar bank branch, supposedly swept away by customers’ mass-migration to online and—increasingly—mobile alternatives. But as our latest UK banking consumer survey— Beyond Banking —confirms, there’s still plenty of life in the bank branch.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We This year, we look at revenues.” Launched back in 2014, […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. Canada and Brazil. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

According to Deloitte Global and North America Sourcing and Procurement Lead Brian Umbenhauer, the 2016 survey of trends among the chief procurement officers of the world is one of reflection. The verdict: Surprisingly, procurement seems to be back on track for going digital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees. These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience. million people in 2016 to 17.2

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

Among the most anticipated are IPOs that will impact the mobility-as-a-service and ride-hailing ecosystems, social media, and data analytics. Even if one or more of them fail to materialize, talk will continue about these IPOs, which itself will help guide the thinking and moves of industry peers, competitors and innovators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As The Financial Times put it, Vestager “said that the preliminary probe focused on the online retailer’s dual role as a competitor, but also host, to third-party merchants.”. Last week it announced Souq, an online retail and marketplace website in Saudi Arabia, is launching the Amazon Global Store. European Tone.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

The eCommerce giant will be supporting EGX and parent company Gamer Network with marketing initiatives on its website, mobile platforms and social media outlet, and it will also create a dedicated content source on its gamer-centric Twitch livestreaming site.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Americans, especially millennials, are hungry for restaurant innovation. According to the Technomic survey , consumers are particularly hungry for innovation in fast-food and fast-casual settings, with 89 percent of respondents saying they wanted more payment options at those businesses. Dining’s brave new table technology future.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2018

National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Large banks, e-commerce moguls like Amazon and eBay and tech firms are likely to enter the alternative lending space, and soon, according to Eden Amirav, co-founder, and CEO of startup LendingExpress. Over the […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

They realized watches that routinely retail for around $300 could be sold online at a profit for between $100-$160 if they cut out the retail middlemen and primarily sold online. “What we have learned: If you don’t have to raise, you shouldn’t,” Kassan told CNBC in 2016. “We are online shoppers.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Google was just granted a patent focused on pinpointing, notifying, and rewarding “trendsetters” – aka early consumers of online content that ends up goes viral. Microsoft just won approval for a patent focused on detecting, classifying, and scoring “experts” for their expertise on specific topics based on their online activity.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Now while Facebook initially launched its Messenger chat service in 2011, it wasn’t a major hit right away and the social media giant continued to refine its offering. Once thought of as a stodgy industry that rarely sees innovation, there is a company that’s looking to change that perception. Cambridge, Mass.–based

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Well-received though it was initially, its popularity as a social media channel started to dim as platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat began dominating the market, and ever-fickle consumers found “there were sexier things to do” than rack up Foursquare mayorships. And we actually thought people would think it was a dumb idea.

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William Mills

MAY 10, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. We enable FIs to record everything that goes on with the customers transactions on mobile, online, social and let the FI validate interactions on that site.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

By 2016, that figure has reportedly nearly doubled to nearly $28 billion. He replaced Tamara Pattison, said Internet Retailer , who left Albertsons in June 2016. Narayan’s expertise will enable us to deploy new service and marketing models to attract more shoppers and grow our business both in stores and online.”

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. Social media is a special challenge since social media was not created with compliance in mind. I can see how some other social media channels may be more prevalent and important in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS, Jesse Ness, senior marketing manager of Ecwid, an eCommerce shopping cart and online store solution provider, discussed the importance of shopping carts to online retailers. He pointed out that these online carts have largely replaced POS systems as the central component of any business.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Do no go online and get another online loan. Under the scenario the consumer can transfer much-needed cash as well get cash (that was earned, not paid yet) so no payday or online lending debt is added. Maria Gurina (Bus. Solutions).

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Vladimir Stasevich (Exec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

Although luxury revenue took a dive between 2015 to 2016, going from €251 billion down to €249 billion, there has been signs of positive growth in 2017. In buyer news this week, social media is proving to be a major influencer factor across all generations.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The analysis revealed the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant is rapidly increasing headcount to strengthen its specialized product and product innovation teams. Facebook has announced plans to integrate Oculus with its social media platform through Facebook Spaces.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations. Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. million raised in late 2016. And Winnie’s co-founders were something of a unique dynamic duo in Silicon Valley terms. Like many of their fellows, they were young, entrepreneurial and technology-minded.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding. Just under 10% of the companies — 15 to be exact — were fintech-related. This is about average for a YC incubator class, with the 26% from Summer 2015 being an Read More.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2016

According to the company’s 2016 Consumer Experience Index, it’s nearly a fifty-fifty split: 44% of the survey respondents indicated that they would Read More. Consumers aren’t quite at the point where they prefer chatbots to humans—but according to a new study conducted by enterprise software company Aspect, that could very soon change.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 16, 2016

Changing this is the goal behind BankMobile’s second annual BankMobilist College Program, for which applications for the 2016-2017 schoolyear are now open. “Start ‘em young” is a motto that can be applied to a lot of things in life, but isn’t often used in tandem with providing financial knowledge. The program Read More.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Facebook expects its payments revenue for 2016 to come in lower than 2015. The company couldn’t be more clear: ads are “the big focus.” The company’s ad revenue this quarter soared 57% year over year, hitting $5.4 billion, of which $4.2 billion – 82% – comprised of mobile ad revenue. In Read More.

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