PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. In 2016, Jon joined fan and light maker Big Ass Fans as its first chief operating officer. In Episode 4 of the What If? Meet the Hosts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings at lower prices. That ethos still holds sway throughout much of Airbnb’s global operations , but for a few weeks in Rio, that book has been shotputted out of the window.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the throes of managing balance sheets and loan portfolios and at the same time executing daily “run the bank” operations, bankers are faced with the need to continuously develop new customer experiences and scale enterprise capabilities. At the same time, tomorrow’s leadership will have little to do with “book smarts.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

After all, college is not only a place where many young men and women learn who they really are, but where operators of commerce, big and small, often find their next lucrative ideas. Mobile Innovation. Take one of the most recent examples, from Amazon. Subscription Rising. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The company assigns a manager to oversee operations at each site as well as food runners if the venue’s staff cannot handle delivery.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The eCommerce operator recently announced that it is launching its Off-to-College store, geared toward college students and all of their shopping needs — be it furnishing a dorm room or purchasing class supplies. Take one of the most recent examples, from Amazon. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

At the broader level, commercial card innovators — both within the T&E arena and elsewhere — are pressing further into the spend management space, heightening the ability for businesses to control and analyze expenses as more companies tighten their belts and focus on recovery. Expensify Links Cards To Booking.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Wayne leaves the company in a great position to continue to innovate, create value for customers, and provide growth opportunities for employees,” said Park Durrett, Managing Director of Abrigo investor Accel-KKR, when asked about Wayne’s plan to retire.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payment operations software company Modern Treasury raised $38 million through an Altimeter Capital-led Series B funding round, according to a Tuesday (Jan. In terms of payment innovation, the company notes that real-time payments (RTP) account for over 6 percent of its volume. 12) announcement. The company says that over $18.5

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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

In part this reversal responded to another historical lesson drawn from Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2009 book This Time is Different about the threshold of debt/GDP beyond which risks of further financial instability increased. This shows that history can deliver contradictory advice; the academic debate about this threshold continues.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Gross bookings of $18.1 billion were better than the $18 billion analysts had expected, up 28 percent, while within that number, ride-sharing bookings were $13.2 Uber for Business has seen gross bookings surge to $1.2 billion in the latest quarter, while managed accounts was up by 75 percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

as well as 21 European Union (EU) countries — sent a letter to antitrust regulators asking that they throw the book at Google as fast as possible. Paytronix has launched Paytronix Subscriptions, a subscription-building product that will allow any restaurant or convenience store to set up and manage a subscription program for its customers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Corporate travel and expense management solution provider Serko has teamed up with FaceMe to design what it claims to be the world’s first digital human corporate travel assistant. The digital human will integrate with Serko’s existing Zeno online travel booking platform. Reports in CIO on Thursday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Uncertainty is at an all-time high, but what is clear is that business travel management FinTechs aren’t sitting idly. ” Continuing Innovation. For CWT, that means a recently-announced partnership with corporate travel expense management FinTech SAP Concur.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The effort provides innovative early-stage startups with access to an immersive six-month program where they receive guidance and support from MasterCard on scaling their operations and entering new markets and industries. “It’s not a random set of companies.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Used to be that managing a company’s liquidity and cash position was a matter of reconciling disparate bank accounts at the end of the day. Trade finance, they said, could help boost efficiency in cash management and supply chain (via dynamic discounting on invoices).

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The attendees had a combined experience of over 300 years across analytics, credit risk and operations across Europe, UK, the Middle East and Southern Africa. This crisis has been unique, due to the dynamics of virtual operating models and in the spending patterns for those affected financially by the crisis and those not.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Rachel Jiang, head of health and wellness for Amazon Alexa, said select developers will be invited to build Alexa skills that transmit and receive protected health information, aiming to make it easier for consumers to manage their healthcare via voice.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. There’s a clear trajectory from daily to intra-day calculations, and in some cases even to real-time XVA calculations to help traders and risk management teams make better operational decisions. Game-changing innovation. Innovation drives business transformation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

The service will also aid those looking to purchase tires and book installation appointments on vehicles. The press release states that EDGE will allow clients to purchase tires online, using a partnership with thousands of Bridgestone Retail Operations locations, including Firestone Complete Auto Care and Tires Plus.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. Designed for the field services industry, Skynamo ’s offering connects businesses to a sales app and management solution while enabling sales representatives to reduce their reliance on paper.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Unlike most of the other big-ticket purchases in a consumer’s life, where cutting-edge options for financing abound, innovations in the travel market have been far fewer. Uplift, a B2B payments platform, was created to fill that innovation gap. Managing The Road Ahead. The result, he said, is that the $1.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Regulators want to have a greater stake in the way sharing platforms operate. In India, Google Pay is up against t he New Delhi High Court over its operations in the region, facing a debate over how the payment service should be regulated. That’s why Hostelz.com no longer accepts them, according to Owner and Founder David Orr.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

How FashionPass is Innovating Clothing Rentals. With consumer behavior changing, the platforms that provide clothing rental services need to innovate the ways they approach customer service and payment features. To learn more about how Kiwi.com is innovating payments for better customer service, visit the Playbook’s case study.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Its “Whole Paycheck” image combined with the rise in availability of organic foods in more traditional grocery stores put pressure on its stock, which was in the dumper, and the management team to do something to turn things around. When Amazon was just about selling books online, its competition was the physical bookstore.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 7, 2024

The uptake of this sophisticated technology is setting records at every turn from the pace of innovation to adoption. While it is tempting to sign the contract for Copilot at a starting cost of $30 per person and distribute the technology bank wide, bank management should understand the greater context of the strategy and investment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Among the fastest-growing hotel brands, Life House has over 800 beds and 25 hotels that are expected to be operational by early next year. . According to the company, its platform is producing revenue increases topping 40 percent while lowering expenses for operations 45 percent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Back-end processes like payments and cash flow management are a significant opportunity for travel industry players to modernize and promote efficiency. “The travel industry is indeed very good in adapting to new technologies in general, and there are incredible players that are bringing innovations to the industry,” he said.

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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 28, 2020

While 2020 has been a monumental year for B2B payments digitization and innovation, plenty of friction still exists in the way corporate buyers pay their suppliers. In addition to new payment models coming to fruition, B2B FinTech innovation is also driving efficiencies in the post-payment workflow, especially when it comes to reconciliation.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Swashbuckling, nimble, well-funded and unapologetically entrepreneurial, fintechs are offering innovations that allow community bankers to dream big in a host of ways.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Other features include Bank by Appointment, a feature that lets users book appointments with specialists, managers and notaries […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Bakers open bakeries because they like to bake — they don’t like to do accounts receivables and accounts payable and balance their books,” he said. They might like making cakes and seeing happy customers, but few especially enjoy managing their businesses. “So Innovation Vs. Incumbency. Don’t Put Too Much Faith In Credit.

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