PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In the fifth official study conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Richmond and San Francisco, the 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (DCPC) detailed the cash and non-cash payment behavior of U.S. Also, the total value of payments rose by $580 from $3,419 in 2017 and is $83 more than 2016’s total value of $3,916.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

Brands is buying a 3 percent ownership stake in Grubhub and is teaming up with the company to provide delivery and online ordering in the future from two of its brands, KFC and Taco Bell. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon ’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp ’s Eat24.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We The candies are made in a suburb of Boston, where the company has a little more than 200 employees. Necco had moved its operations to a large 50-acre site after leaving its longtime plant just outside Boston in 2003.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

bills paid online. trillion in 2017, and that could nearly double by 2021 — online billing platforms are rushing to incorporate payment processing capabilities into their offerings. Younger consumers are leading the way when it comes to online bill payments, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Over half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures per Federal Reserve research. for $4 billion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In the future, Grubhub said it will provide delivery and online ordering for KFC and Taco Bell. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The partnership with Yum!, Grubhub has been in expansion mode.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

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. These technologies are at varying levels of maturity, but the potential to revolutionize the customer experience through AI may be truly transformational, and Celent was pleased to see so many projects in this space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. The brand will only sell its “Glossier You” fragrance, a product that has become one of Glossier.com’s top-rated items since rolling out in October 2017. million gifts and other products back to U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years. As of today (Sept. 19), the numbers are fairly impressive.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

According to the SEC’s orders, both CarrierEQ (Airfox) and Paragon Coin conducted ICOs in 2017 after the SEC warned that ICOs can be securities offerings.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The company currently operates 263 department stores in 25 states under the Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Younkers banners. In 2017, Bufano said there will be “even greater emphasis on growth categories and localization.”. Revenue fell 5.5 percent to $877.3 percent to $2.6

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. The easiest way to describe what we do,” said David Sobie, CEO of Happy Returns , “is that we’re the buy online, return to store option for retailers that don’t have stores.”. and Houston. and Houston.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference.

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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. Yet the bad behavior persisted. I seriously doubt it.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Enter the digital insurance challengers aiming to fill the gaps through simple online/mobile interfaces. Here are the biggest players in the United States ranked by our FAB score ( Fintech Attention Barometer ). NEW : Looking for digital banks, lenders, payment providers, insurance or digital accounting for small businesses?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

According to a report released by Moody’s Investors Service in late 2017, distressed bond issuers in the U.S. We’ve quickly learned that online and in-store shoppers end up being our most valuable customers,” said Lewis. “So, retail and apparel markets are nearing recession levels, tripling in the past six years.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Taziki’s Mediterranean Café , for instance, has seen its online and to-go orders increase by 200 percent over the past three years. These are just some of the ways that QSRs have recently sought to reinvent their mobile and online ordering experiences to encourage diners skip the line and order ahead: The total number of U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Online shopping is on a tear, and marketplaces are reaping the rewards. billion — online payments were completed in the U.S. In the post, Shopify wrote, “by accepting Venmo directly in your online store, users can complete their purchase in just a few clicks. adults make purchases online. Just under 150 billion — or 148.5

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. In July, McDonald’s announced its new alliance with DoorDash, effectively terminating its relationship with Uber Eats, which went back to 2017. and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. According to research from 2017, more than 50 percent of bills in the U.S. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Coon noted that putting the apartment applications online helps make the process more secure.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong. It seemed like a no-brainer: A consumer finds and pays for something online and picks it up at the store faster than they could have it delivered. Like you, I suspect, I’ve attempted to use the buy online, pick up in-store option on many occasions over the last couple of years.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Founded: 2017. Founded: 2017. HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 2021). Review Date. Funding ($M). Visits (Oct ’21). 1,230,000. Bellevue, WA. $54.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). Founded: 2017. Founded: 2017. HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 2021). Review Date. Funding ($M). Visits (Oct ’21). 1,230,000. Bellevue, WA. $54.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

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. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. Wayfair’s biggest trick this week was blowing away analyst expectations for revenue during the Q1 2017 quarter that ended in March. eps for the Q1 2017 quarter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. consumers showed that of the 7.75 Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

cities, such as Boston and Los Angeles, for additional brick-and-mortar locations. The retailer, which started online seven years ago, opened up a holiday pop-up store in 2016. Nearly 85 percent of holiday sales were made in physical stores in 2017. What are the implications for this year?

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

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. Celent is pleased to offer a Celent Model Bank award in 2017 for Branch Transformation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Enter the digital insurance challengers aiming to fill the gaps through simple online/mobile interfaces. Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (26) | SMB charge/credit cards (15) | SMB challenger banks (10) . Founded: 2017. Founded: 2017 (first policy sold in 2018). Acquired by Travelers in 2017 for $490M.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

Founded: 2017. HQ: Boston. Funding ($M). Visits (5/21). Expensify **. 1,060,000. Divvy (Bill.com). Tribal Credit. Definition : Charge cards require the balance to be paid in full each month, credit cards allow the balance to be rolled over, often at a relatively high interest rate). FAB Score = 390. – Employees: 634 (Pitchbook).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

Founded: 2017. HQ: Boston. Funding ($M). Visits (5/21). Expensify **. 1,060,000. Divvy (Bill.com). Tribal Credit. Definition : Charge cards require the balance to be paid in full each month, credit cards allow the balance to be rolled over, often at a relatively high interest rate). FAB Score = 390. – Employees: 634 (Pitchbook).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In 2017 to date, we have seen 21 bankruptcies. RadioShack and Wet Seal also fell victim to second bankruptcies in 2017. The timeline graphic below shows how the pace of retail bankruptcies is speeding up in 2017. Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence.

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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. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ .

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The move isn’t unprecedented: In 2017, it was reported that Target would start to carry Casper -branded mattresses and bedding through Target.com and that Casper accessories would be available in brick-and-mortar stores. Then, in 2018, Pop-In@Nordstrom partnered with Casper to bring pop-up stores to select Nordstrom locations and online.

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