PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

billion to help it get a foothold in the fitness tracker and wearables market, which has seen successful products from Apple and Samsung. There’s a worry with regulators, Vestager said, because Fitbit is a data-heavy company. “In In general we have a concern if companies merge because of data,” Vestager said. billion euro ($2.65

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Innovation is often driven by two forces: the makers of technology pushing the market forward and the receivers of that technology bringing demand for better solutions. But Jemin Patel, director at eProcurement company ProcurePort , says the middle market can get lost in the shuffle.

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NCR

MAY 22, 2017

Big data has been one of the tech industry’s most popular buzzwords for a few years now. But as the number of data sources grows and technology to process it becomes more powerful, the trend is changing from a nice-to-have addition to becoming an essential part of any company’s offering. Fighting fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These market conditions may not seem ripe for FinTech innovation, but where there are challenges, there are opportunities. Michael Sassoon, CEO of banking and technology firm Sasfin , recently told PYMNTS about some of the country’s biggest hurdles in small business FinServ — and what technology innovators hope to do about them.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 1, 2016

Next up was data and its use in providing context to the consumer experience. Brett King opened yesterday’s episode of Breaking Banks with the new Citibank report, which suggests disruption will lead to a 30% cut in employees across the retail banking sector.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

It’s also backed by Sequoia and Zhenfund, and it’s one of a slew of companies trying to attract market share away from Apple and other tech giants. The startup has a partnership with Google through its Voice Assistant and Wear operating system. The company offers voice-search services, smart speakers and watches, among other things.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s no shortage of consulting advice and press clippings that will state the importance of actionable data for companies as a selling, operational and marketing strategy. Big data, it used to be called. The latest developments come from Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Trend Lab, a startup developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the FinTech market, has revealed it secured new funding. Of these, Big Data, blockchain and AI are integral to a successful and progressive FinTech industry.”. In a press release issued Tuesday (Jan. 16), the company said it raised more than $12.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Insurance is changing with the rise of eCommerce, as well as with the support of ever-expanding data sets and other parts of the digital infrastructure — trends that bring consumers closer, in a way, to insurance offerings. Indeed, and that opportunity is driving innovation in the space, going forward into the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

Whether robots will take our jobs or take over the mundane tasks for humans to shift to more strategic operations, one thing is for sure: Automation is changing the workforce. Nearly the same figure (77 percent) said it supports enhanced customer service, while 74 percent agreed that automation boosts innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

As you can imagine, digital disbursements stand as one of the main areas of innovation and disruption for the practice of payments going forward. The dream might be familiar, but it certainly bears repeating, as this ideal will set the course for so many attempts at innovation and disruption in the coming decade. Role of Disbursements.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

In a press release , Socure said that Thimot brings to the company decades of management increasing sales and operations at private and public technology companies. The market opportunity and applications for Socure’s technology span a wide range of industries. We are in the right place at the right time.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

Nuance provides conversational artificial intelligence innovations for global industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services and retail. Benjamin currently serves as president and chief operating officer of NCR Corporation, a leading technology company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

But what if the way companies are going about big data and analytics is wrong? With so much data available, is your organization harnessing it in the most efficient way in order to truly reap all the benefits of big data including driving innovation and improving the customer experience? Karen Webster.

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BankUnderground

JUNE 25, 2020

But potential fragmentation of the global data supply chain now poses a novel risk to financial services. In this blog post, we first discuss the importance of data flows for financial services, and then potential risks from blockages to these flows. Big Data and financial services. This has been driven by three factors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In addition, the companies plan to look into payment innovation, such as facial recognition technology and robotic delivery. As of now, Luckin Coffee already offers some innovative technology: Customers can monitor the progress of their orders through a livestream and have them delivered in an average of just 18 minutes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

In the age of Big Data, global supply chains quickly flocked to analytics solutions that offered predictability and agility in a market swayed by geopolitical shifts, regulatory risks and even the weather. “Collecting data is the easy part,” he said. “We see a lot of that,” said Vaillancourt.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

And when one is talking about AI, machine learning (ML) or big data and its future, she noted, context really is everything. And although they are relatively new to the market, they are already evolving forward so that smart speakers are now built with screens. Today’s innovations, she said, are still just a starting place.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

JPMorgan is setting itself apart from a traditional accelerator by inviting these companies to sit with the bank’s businesses so they can develop innovations that are specifically needed in the industry. This means addressing how to innovate them in a way that can make them operate faster, safer and cheaper. “In-Residence

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

Existing backers Gradient Ventures, Randstad Innovation Fund, Bain Capital Ventures and Cervin Ventures also participated. Yellowbrick Data. Yellowbrick operates a data warehouse for large enterprises to obtain business intelligence for a range of applications, from cybersecurity to market research. WorldRemit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

But something has happened over the last few years, according to Coupa VP of Strategy and Product Marketing Donna Wilczek: Technology has enabled AP professionals to become strategic and massively important to the success of any corporation, large or small. They are mom-and-pop operations, she said, often “just trying to make it.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In its 2019 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey, published last week, Protiviti surveyed 825 board members across industries and across geographic markets to understand how corporations today are preparing for the year ahead. Indeed, concerns over digital disruption and readiness are threaded throughout the top-1o list.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

They will evaluate nominations based upon measurable improvement in key metrics; demonstrated use of best practices; project scale, depth and breadth; and innovative uses of technology. This year our judges, in alphabetical order, are: Prasanna Dhoré, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Equifax.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap an even more difficult challenge. At the root of the matter is often a lack of predictive data to ascertain the creditworthiness of these small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM (EST) , join Rich Stuppy, Chief Operating Officer of Kount , and Karen Webster, CEO of MPD, for a live digital discussion about the vulnerability of larger groups, like the Pokémon GO user base, and why they are a prime target for fraudsters and scammers. CEO, Market Platform Dynamics.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

million in B2B venture capital was divided among alt-finance, supplier payments and Big Data services startups this past week. based ZipBooks will help the small business accounting startup strengthen the underwriting process for its SME finance operations, reports announced on Wednesday (July 20). .” Alternative Lending.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

In a statement, Boulder Ventures General Partner Peter Roshko said SyncHR “provides unparallelled automation and innovation” in the human capital management industry that “differentiates their SaaS platform” from the competition. The company helps farming businesses optimize their production via analysis of troves of agricultural data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Payments had been relatively static with innovation around cash, checks and credit cards. Then, there was sudden exponential growth in innovation. It’s not exactly a newsflash, Jenkins said, that the rate of innovation in payments over the last four years has been fast-paced, transformative and disruptive.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

With the new funding, Gigster said it hopes to add to its client base — which already includes eBay and IBM — as well as focus on sales and marketing. Taiwan’s Appier also focuses on artificial intelligence with a B2B solution aimed at helping companies more efficiently and effectively handle Big Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The facility, which has been in operation since March, serves more than 100 Walmart locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. Its supply chain taps into the Data Lake big data platform to enhance analytics and information storage. and other markets. Shares of the owner of Footpatrol and Cloggs jumped as much as 4.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Operating in the enterprise cloud space as well, Wave Computing announced $86 million in funding this week for its AI technologies, enabling companies to take advantage of its data with deep learning capabilities. The firm said it will use the investment to focus on operational expansion. Wave Computing.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

But today, in some markets like the U.K., the agriculture sector is widely ignored by big banks and FinTechs. As a result, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the industry have missed out on many of the benefits of finserv innovation and technology, despite the industry’s often-overlooked embrace of digitization.

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Insights on Business

JULY 30, 2018

To financial firms, this increased customer satisfaction looks to also driving lower operating costs. For the last 17 years, Envestnet | Yodlee has partnered with more than 1,100 financial institutions and FinTech innovators, including 13 of the top 20 U.S. Learn more about IBM Banking and Financial Markets Technology, here.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Both Sharma and Chakraborty pointed to a multitude of factors driving supply chain management challenges in today’s market. In large part, growing consumer and end-customer demands reverberate through supply chains, leading to what the executives described as “cutthroat competition” across industries.

Technology 117

Technology Strategy Management Industry 117

Bank Innovation

APRIL 5, 2019

The 47-year-old chief executive officer of Banco BTG Pactual SA, a fixed-income trading veteran, said he spent the past four years digging into subjects such as cloud computing, performance marketing and data-analytics metrics. His schooling was to help with the bank’s push into […].

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