PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

And European retailers are embracing digital payments: H&M, for instance, recently inked a partnership with Klarna through which they will further integrate H&M’s physical and digital stores. The company also reported that online retail sales may hit $123.73 A little more than 74 billion — or 74.5 The figure marks a 4.1

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Most retail deposits still take place at the branch. Most Retail Deposits Still Take Place at the Branch. Yet, with a decade of remote deposit capture utilization behind us, a January 2017 survey of US financial institutions (n=269) clearly shows that the majority of retail deposit dollar volume still takes place in the branch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

That’s after closing 800 stores in 2017. Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. It’s just not what people want anymore,” Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York consultancy The Retail Doctor, told The Washington Post. “If It appears that “Eat Fresh” has gone stale. It’s about growing the business.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Cinema chains are driving customer convenience and building loyalty with the help of digital innovations to make for more seamless moviegoing experiences. As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. million in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Said simply, New Balance is rethinking athletic footwear retail — how to sells shoes, where to sell shoes and how to carry on its relationship with its customers across channels — and in between sneaker replacements.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Institutions are acknowledging the valuable and complementary role Fintech can play in providing a modern, innovative customer experience. This is just a taste of what we’ll have in store at the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston. I look forward to seeing you all there.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing. Here’s why.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

percent between 2017 and 2026. Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World. Tech giant Apple is also upping its payments game.

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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. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

The Super Bowl may be a memory, but the somewhat improbable victory of the New England Patriots was still fresh in the minds of many at snow-jammed Boston during Innovation Project 2017. In many firms, “from SMBs up to the biggest retailers,” said the executive, assets have been siloed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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William Mills

AUGUST 17, 2016

Between September and October, we’ll see a host of new companies, ideas and innovation, and we’ll hear from the “experts” on those issues we need to pay attention to in 2017. This conference series is focused exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. AFT Fall Summit.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. how retailers can survive (and thrive) this holiday season. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Uber Eats, the food delivery branch of the ridesharing company, was on track to post more than $3 billion in gross sales by the end of 2017, The Financial Times reported. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. The long game involves spending as much as $2.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2017

However, the last few weeks of action in payments and commerce has convenience of a plausible other explanation: He didn’t live long enough to see retail reinvention in the digital age. Some of it works; disruptive innovation depends on thinking a little bit differently. Everyone wants to build the best consumer experience.

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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. In 2017, the Super Bowl drew 111 million sets of eyes. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 We are mostly kidding about that. Snack Time. per person.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Mall developer James Rouse was known for many innovations, but his best known might have arguably been the food court. According to research that circulated in 2017, there are expected to be 200 food halls in the U.S. As it stands, the chain has locations in cities such as Boston, New York and Los Angeles, among others.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

To meet this rising demand, QSRs are tapping into ordering interfaces built into cars and reconstructing stores to make for smoother mobile pickup — along with other innovations. From Chipotle Mexican Grill to Square , QSRs and payment firms alike are enabling a world of ordering innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S. Housing (18.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

The 30-year-old QSR brand has plans for aggressive growth in 2017 , and Tripodes will spearhead the effort. Tripodes has more than 15 years of franchising experience with Boston Restaurant & Sports Bar, Bojangles and Moe’s Southwest Grill, among others.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

percent it fell in 2017 according to IWSR, an industry tracker for the drinks market. . Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer. In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S. fell by just shy of 1 percent, more than the 0.8 percent loss in sales.

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MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. Instacart started in San Francisco but announced that it plans to launch in more than 100 new markets by the end of 2017. is beefing up its ecommerce capabilities with a $10 million investment in online meal kit retailer Chef’d. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

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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. Innovation, implying the change that is the only constant when it comes to how people and businesses interact and transact. and panels. .

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service. More than a quarter of consumers who own voice-activated speakers use them to purchase things, and more than half of all bridge millennials do, too – with growth that more than doubled from 2017 to 2018.

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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. Innovation, implying the change that is the only constant when it comes to how people and businesses interact and transact. and panels. .

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Payments Innovation Data Course 102

Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2017

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. Undoubtedly, the highlight was attending Celent's Innovation and Insight Day on April 4th, where we celebrated achievements of the Model Bank and Model Insurer award winners. Consumer Banking Channel Innovation. Product Innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Annoyed to the point of swearing them off for good: “Shopping with a bot is tedious — it takes 20 exchanges to finally get a link to a just-OK pair of black pumps that you have to then go outside the bot to the retailer site to buy. Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. Aeromexico.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Since 2017, ROAE has grown from 7% to approximately 20% and ROAA has increased from.82% Tom led First Tech for 25 years and always had a passion for credit union members and the opportunity to innovate financial services.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 28, 2017

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation. See you in Boston!

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 23, 2017

As my colleague Dan Latimore wrote in the article that began this series , 2017 was the best ever year so far for Celent Model Bank programme in terms of quantity, quality and diversity of nominations. Consumer Banking Channel Innovation – for the most creative use of consumer channels, or the most effective channel integration.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 14, 2017

Until we announce all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston, we’re unable to say too much more – very frustrating! First, the entries this year reinforce how hard it is for any single bank to come up with a cutting edge product innovation in payments.

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