PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

And like Walgreens is now painfully aware, sometimes the mad dash to gobble up innovative startup partners can lead merchants down a dark path. It may have been a long time coming, but Walgreens has, as of Sunday (June 12), officially announced that its operating partnership with Theranos Wellness Centers has been torn up and tossed aside.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 7, 2018

On August 3, 2018, Arizona began accepting applications for its regulatory sandbox that “enables a participant to obtain limited access to Arizona’s market to test innovative financial products or services without first obtaining full state licensure or other authorization that otherwise may be required.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

POSaBIT, based in Seattle, already manages millions of transactions for over 120 dispensaries across Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Oklahoma. Even though legal marijuana industry keeps gaining traction — according to one official state estimate, the market in California alone will reach at least $5.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

As a global company, we have the bandwidth to constantly innovate and create new products and features that support the entire marketplace,” Buczkowski noted. It also launched autonomous truck deliveries, with the first hauls completed in Arizona.

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Filene

JANUARY 26, 2018

Next, Filene was looking for a new head of innovation and he was the natural choice for this hire. For a guy from Arizona who spent most of his adult life in Southern California, Wisconsin was a real change. Thanks Andrew and good luck in Arizona! We have a vacancy for managing director, research at Filene…!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The company works in partnership with fleet managers to deploy those vehicles, or sells them outright, and has clients such as supermarket chain Lidl. Expect more disruption and innovation in this area as the tech improves and the use cases become even more obvious. million trucks on the road across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Country Manager Lars Petersson said, “We recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are.” Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. restaurants.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. In some respects, AOBA 2022 felt a bit like bank executives wanted to “fake it until they make it” with their future innovation and fintech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It’s not uncommon for new management at a company, upon taking the corner office, to take a look at what he or she has been left. That includes the Waymo driverless initiatives through, for example, early rider programs in metro Phoenix and long-haul trucking in Arizona. So may be the case with Alphabet, parent company of Google.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Gardineer raised concerns about the application of bespoke capital, liquidity, and risk management requirements for SPNB charter applicants. Paul Watkins, recently named by CFPB Acting Director Mulvaney to serve as Director of the Bureau’s Office of Innovation , was also a speaker at the summit. Questions directed at Ms.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Early this week, the conference was the epicenter of discussions, where 2,000 attendees descended upon Arizona to strategize and set the tone for our great industry’s future. As disruptive innovation finds a home in banking, the industry anticipates a surge in technology’s ability to drive tangible business outcomes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The ride-sharing technology provider managed to trim its loss in the second quarter of 2018 , to $891 million from the $1.1 Another survey provides a similar view in the aftermath of the Arizona accident. billion reported for the same period last year — but still more than the $550 million loss reported for the first quarter of 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The ride-sharing technology provider managed to trim its loss in the second quarter of 2018 , to $891 million from the $1.1 Another survey provides a similar view in the aftermath of the Arizona accident. billion reported for the same period last year — but still more than the $550 million loss reported for the first quarter of 2018.

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Arizona Survey Phoenix Technology 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Automatic will provide its onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) adapters and mobile apps to new AmFam policyholders who enroll in the company’s KnowYourDrive program, which reportedly starts in Arizona and Indiana this month and will roll out across the U.S. throughout the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Furniture subscriptions are not IKEA’s only recent innovation, as the company has doubled down on service offerings. But amid news of the city store concept, the furniture retailer scrapped the brick-and-mortar stores it had planned to open in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona last year. IKEA’s Pivot Points . IKEA Retail U.S

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“While we seek to serve the growing demand for carry-out, we also must turn tables at peak times for those guests who choose to dine in with us … we increased in-store training using our new learning management system. Our servers were trained on the basics of greeting, one-stop ordering and three-level bussing.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise. It also conducts mortgage banking from 12 offices in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

We say defense because it was apparent from early in the hearing that the senators gathered were more than a little suspicious of Facebook’s latest innovation — and less than favorably inclined to letting it move forward. Brown was far from the only voice on the committee during the hearing with sharp words for the manager Facebook sent.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Along with an expanded lineup of general session presentations, more than 200 companies will be exhibiting at Expo to discuss the industry’s latest product and service innovations. Tech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author on business creativity, innovation and reinvention. ICBA Chairman, and President and CEO.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

American Green managed to buy the whole thing – all 120 acres of the town – for a very reasonable $5 million. million above and beyond what the Arizona-based firm has already spent on the town itself. Nipton is a tiny town that sits on the border with Nevada and is home to about 20 souls. The devlepment will cost an estimated $2.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona. Generally speaking, if the words “Santa” “cocaine” and “pants free” show up in a new story about your retail establishment or marketplace — it might be time to consider going back to the innovation drawing board.

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FICO

APRIL 3, 2020

Share innovative ideas as to how other businesses are overcoming current events. We are seeing a variety of COVID-19 responses throughout the country, ranging from California to Arizona in terms of boldness of measures. Here are some possible options: Be willing to promote businesses using your organization’s social networks.

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Filene

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

We listened and built out 5 key themes, each forming into a Center of Excellence on which we will focus our research going forward: The Center for Consumer Decision Making uncovers preferences, changes and trends in money management. The Center for Emerging Technologies connects credit unions with the most impactful tech and consumer trends.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As part of the plan, PIF is planning to reach $2T in assets under management by 2030, up from an estimated $250B currently. The company also plans to build its first factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. The KAUST Innovation fund, a seed fund at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, has also invested in two solar startups.

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CB Insights

MAY 9, 2019

Today, it seems like every large corporation has its own “ innovation lab.”. Few are more critical of the model than startup entrepreneurs and VCs, who argue that corporate innovation labs are mostly innovation theater. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Waymo (Google X).

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New research from MIT proposes lightweight drones that can help track and manage inventory in large-scale environments, by allowing passive, long-range radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning. Amazon’s Phoenix, Arizona fulfillment center, for one, is 1.2 Flying High: The State of Drone Technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2016

One of the world’s most innovative, fintech-friendly banks just onboarded a new boss. At Garanti, Turkey’s largest bank by market cap at $9 billion, Genç (pictured) was in charge of retail banking, private banking, and asset management. BBVA announced this week that U.S. He was promoted to deputy CEO at Garanti in 2015.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship. Prior to Bright Paths, she earned a year’s worth of experience working in technology around software engineering projects as a Product Manager. More About Deepti Dhar’s Bright Paths Project: Welcome to Stock Market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Universities working to enroll thousands of new students online face many of the same challenges that currently plague financial institutions (FIs) and insurance firms: They are struggling to keep out bad actors while managing surges in digital interactions. percent of their annual budgets on IT development.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2019

Thanks to innovative technology, smart cities are already a reality — and they continue to expand and become more refined. Cloud-based IoT applications can then receive, analyze, and manage that traffic data in real-time. Using GIS for smart water management. Traffic Management. Source: Ceinsys Tech . Smart Cities.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Avis has a pact in place with Google’ autonomous car development company Waymo to help manage self-driving vehicles based and operating in Phoenix, Arizona. Hertz has an agreement with Apple in which the tech giant will lease Lexus SUVs from the car rental firm and test autonomous driving technology.

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CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

investment fund dedicated to startups innovating in the AV space. Voyage, a self-driving spinoff from education startup Udacity , open-sourced its autonomous driving safety technology following the fatal crashes of Uber’s self-driving car in Arizona and Tesla’s crash involving the Autopilot feature. in Frisco, Texas.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Former Tesla Autopilot manager hired as CTO of self-driving tech subsidiary. In April 2017 Audi reportedly hired former Tesla Autopilot program manager Alexandre Haag as the unit’s CTO. Mobileye itself has a number of other partnerships through its Road Experience Management (REM) mapping platform, including Nissan, VW, and BMW.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This week saw Uber carry on in its payments-innovating tradition with the rollout of Uber Cash earlier this week, providing a closed-loop payment network that lets consumers easily add funds to its stored value account for use across the Uber ecosystem. The big rollout kept coming as summer slid into its final days.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In Arizona, a self-driving Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian (though there was a driver behind the wheel). Kenneth Stanley, senior engineering manager and staff scientist at Uber AI Labs, is one such individual. A Tesla Model 3 owner in California died while using the car’s Autopilot feature. Kenneth Stanley.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

Register today to see and meet these innovators in person on May 12 and 13 at our upcoming conference in San Jose, California. Finicity helps developers build powerful apps to drive financial software innovation. Money Amigo makes managing money fast, fair, and friendly. Our platform brings innovation to mobile card services.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Yet, at Bank Director’s Acquire or Be Acquired conference last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, they resembled a college football squad that had just taken down a rival in the BCS championship. This pressure might lead to a focus on managing Wall Street optics rather than managing transformation of the bank’s business model.

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