PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

The plate, available in California and due to be rolled out in other states through 2018, is a self-lit LCD screen with a display that can be changed to, for example, showcase advertising along the (government-issued) license plate number. Boston noted that within the plate there is a GPS unit, which means the plate “knows” where it is.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2020

The threshold amount was lowered in 2018, as it was determined that money laundering is widespread in accessible real estate, not only on higher-end properties. The newest order includes: Boston Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami New York City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle. Learn more.

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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. And why those who enable it will be among 2018’s power brokers. We’ll have to wait and see what Amazon has in store for Blink , the Boston-based outdoor security camera company it bought last year.

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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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Filene

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’ll be in Boston in June to talk about organizational entrepreneurship and in Austin in September for more about the War for Talent and our signature big.bright.minds event rounds out the year December 6-7 in San Diego. Growing new ideas and creating sustainable innovation to meet expanding consumer demands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year. The new location comes with a digital innovation, the Wayfair Home Bar, which helps customers visualize how Wayfair’s products fit into a room.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

A recent analysis valued the global mPOS industry at $26 billion in 2018, and it is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.8 Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. percent between 2017 and 2026. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

percent it declined in 2018 and the 0.7 billion in sales between October 2018 and October 2019 — a roughly 200 percent jump — and kicked off something of a spiked seltzer follow-on craze. Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! – A decrease in game attendance also could provide more pressure and motivation to improve the at-home (or at-sports pub) NFL experience this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Between 2016 and 2018, for instance, the volume of orders placed through mobile apps grew by 130 percent, according to PYMNTS’ Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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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. The eatery, which has been in the neighborhood for over 10 years, experienced a significant rent hike in 2018. As it stands, the chain has locations in cities such as Boston, New York and Los Angeles, among others.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago, PC Magazine reported. million in AMC concession revenues for Q1 of 2018 — or $68.4 MoviePass has dropped a few AMC Theatres from its popular movie ticket subscription service. Subscribers will no longer be able to get tickets to select AMC locations in major U.S.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

Financial criminals are working hard, using technology and innovation to their advantage, to stay one step ahead of FinCEN and financial institutions. He further stated that we must be responsible with such innovation. At the recent NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement , FinCEN Director Kenneth A. The 12 major U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We’ve all heard of smart speakers — Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod — but what about these other innovations, which are not dedicated devices but have connected capabilities baked right into the appliance? Innovations such as…. LG Everything. Miscellaneous. Probably not long at all.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. By 2018, Instacart plans to offer service to 80 percent of American households. Both Campbell and Chef’d believe in continuing to drive innovation in the new food economy, particularly around consumer customization and e-commerce solutions.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion , wrote this AI-focused piece as part of our 2018 year-end eBook. . 3, 2018, the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN and Federal Banking agencies issued a joint statement encouraging innovative industry approaches to combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other illicit financial threats.

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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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William Mills

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This year’s HubSpot Inbound conference was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center September 25-28. The conference featured four fun-packed days of keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakout sessions, hands-on lessons and tons of networking. HubSpot is launching a new free conversations tool in 2018.

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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 the second quarter of 2018, Walmart sales grew their highest in over 10 years. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! We are mostly kidding about that. So far, digital efforts appear to be paying off.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. At the same time, GNC does plan to open a small number of new store locations in 2018, potentially mitigating the effects of the closures. The sandwich chain will be redirecting its focus to international expansion even as it loses market share in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. What Innovation? By the end of 2018, eMarketer reports that a full third of the world’s population — some 2.5 Part of the disconnect with the Census data is that it measures averages, but nothing is ever average.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

In meetings and calls with analysts last week, executives from top banks such as Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase and Citi — along with payment companies such as Visa — explained how they are leveraging technology to drive innovation. CFO Vasant Prabhu said on the William Blair 2018 Growth Stock Conference Call on Wednesday (June 13).

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Facebook, for example, disclosed that an unprecedented data breach in September 2018 exposed the social media accounts of up to 90M users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account. Collectively, FAMGA has poured nearly $2.5B Confirm.io

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. Twenty-five years after Amazon opened its virtual doors, consumers have more places than ever to buy things.

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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. Here’s why….

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day. spent, overall, in 2018 across all spending categories. We started with census data to estimate how much households in the U.S. That’s $62,941.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Enhanced loyalty offerings will not be in the FIS MiLB line-up in 2018: The plan, John noted, is to launch during next season. And that something else, John said, is building a better and stickier experience in their parks. Pitching to Loyalty.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Welcome to FinovateSpring 2018. How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. HQ: Boston, MA. I’m here at the Santa Clara Convention Center covering the demos.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I was on a flight from Boston and decided it was time to buy a new pair of shoes from the retailer where I usually shop. Yet many of them are going away – 7,000 stores closed in 2017 (a 200 percent increase from 2016), 5,844 stores shuttered in 2018 and 9,300 shut their doors in 2019. Until last week.

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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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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. The retailer has already opened 7 small stores on college campuses this year, with plans to open 3 more by the end of 2018. Adidas opened its first Speedfactory in Germany in 2017 and its second in Atlanta in spring 2018.

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

How will food leaders adapt in 2018? At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers. Briggs Original (Boston Cranberry). Liquid Asset Brands, Spirit Investment Partners. Craft Spirits Brands. Ava Winery. Mark Cuban.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

From gaming to healthcare to pizza delivery, US-based startups which reached unicorn status in 2018 represent a diverse range of industries. Silicon Valley produced plenty of $1B+ companies in 2018, but other parts of the country also had a strong showing. Check out our real-time Unicorn Tracker for a full list of $1B+ companies).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom. is arguably ground zero for open banking and, if investment flows are an indicator of where the FinTech-driven innovation will be, then the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

regulators have levied $126 million in fines for data violations since mid-2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and U.K. have levied €114 million ($126 million) in fines for data violations since instituting stronger privacy mandates in mid-2018.

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