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AUGUST 16, 2019

That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet purchase in history was made by a Philadelphia resident with a Visa card. BofA economists came up with their predictions based on Bank of America credit card data, which showed spending rose by 0.8 Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville .

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Taking a page out of the copy book of the London Tube, where contactless payments have skyrocketed, the Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works has signed a $33 million contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to install contactless and mobile payments. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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Tech and Finance

DECEMBER 2, 2018

He even lists some of them: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Kiplinger magazine, Consumer Reports, Motley Fool, Vanguard Group, CNNMoney, Suze Orman, AARP and Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research. Someone said if he knows so much why didn’t be write a book, so he has.). He lays out the numbers in his book.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It explains why many fitness trackers, gym memberships, home exercise equipment, or books or apps on physical and financial self-improvement bought at the start of the year begin to collect dust right around Valentine’s Day – just in time for a big romantic dinner.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Oh My Cream! Total Disclosed Funding: $6.6M.

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JULY 11, 2023

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MAY 2, 2023

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, Bolus joined host Karen Webster to discuss how Boston-based VocoLife is matching these two sides together through the use of curation and dynamic rewards. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. Why has the weather been so crappy for the Boston Marathon for the last 10 years? Consumers can also bypass that step, register with a merchant, use a card on file or any other checkout option presented to them.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Every year, the company does a consumer confidence survey (this year conducted by Harris Poll and Nielsen) and publishes the results in an e-book. Hackers can even steal loyalty points from airlines and hotel chains and cash them out for gift cards. The 2017 report is now available.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? Take books, for example. Our data shows that it’s not just books that are feeling that shift — or even that same shift to Amazon. If it were only that straightforward. Take groceries.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Evans, with his long-time colleague Dick Schmalensee, spent last year putting a lot of what we know in a new Harvard Business Review Press book, “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” that’s going to be rolling off the presses in a few weeks. That’s really been the story in payments.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

There was a time,” Grandfather will say, “when Amazon sold only books.” The eCommerce giant famously plays its cards close to its vest, making Amazon-watching roughly akin to figuring out which elderly Communists were running the Kremlin back in the Cold War days. And the frontier will keep expanding. New Services? million deal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

An app with a card on file, Uber, as all of us who are addicted to it know, requires no intervention on the part of the consumer to pay and tip the driver. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle. MESSENGER: FROM CONVERSATION TO COMMERCE . It’s not hard to see why.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

That's the number of books in John Maxfield's banking book library. Doesn't your bank have a bank book library? Two hundred and forty three books. Books are in author last-name order. Because it's a library's worth of books! House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street 2009 William D.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. In what was a huge blow for the DOJ who brought the antitrust case to court on behalf of merchants, the 66-page decision said that consumers weren’t harmed and if merchants didn’t like taking American Express cards because the fees were too high, they could just not take them. Better not.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Department stores, sporting goods stores, specialty retail, jewelry, books and music — the list goes on and the shift online more dramatic by the year. Installment credit options also help convert more shoppers to buyers by financing a single product — instead of having to rely on a credit card.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. By demystifying the management consulting process, books, classes, and blog posts bring more transparency to the marketplace of ideas.

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MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. How about Facebook gift cards? I ordered Vance Packard ’s classic book, “ The Hidden Persuaders ,” written in 1959, from Amazon last week.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. For millions of consumers accustomed to using credit and debit cards, the proposition of using a fingerprint hasn’t been all that appealing. “It’s hard to fight the credit-card companies,” says Gartner (IT) analyst Avivah Litan. ” via Boston Globe. via Boston Magazine.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

As we become more conscious of avoiding frequently touched surfaces, touchless modes of entry will displace traditional card swiping. After raising $9M in Series A funding in May 2020, the company stated it expected a 500% increase in sales bookings quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Source: VergeSense.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Table8 posted the following note on its website: “Nearly three years ago, we set out on a mission to make finding and booking great restaurants easier and more democratic. We have enjoyed helping you find great restaurants, access tough-to-book reservations and discover local chef events.” Product: Table8 (aka TableNow).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Over time, Amazon has captured more than 50 percent of all book sales, is approaching 10 percent of apparel sales and is nearly a third of sporting goods and toys — while representing only 5 percent of all retail sales, excluding automobiles. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Over time, Amazon has captured more than 50 percent of all book sales, is approaching 10 percent of apparel sales and is nearly a third of sporting goods and toys — while representing only 5 percent of all retail sales, excluding automobiles. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”.

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