PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Small businesses, particularly those launched by younger entrepreneurs, are often assumed to be a key driver of B2B FinTech innovation as business owners seek sophisticated, automated technologies to run their businesses. SMBs’ Technology Challenge. “They have a hard time using online banking. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. Not only that, the report said, but “some flights google.com/travel will reveal what the price would have been if the flight had been booked months in advance and whether an increase (or decrease) in fare is imminent. I’m happily surprised.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And then there were the little Walt Disney Read-Along Books and Records, first released in 1965. Each book ran a tight 24 pages and came with a 7-inch record that read the story to its young owner. But though the Disney Read-Along Books and Records burned bright in consumer affections, they burned short.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

Prettier pictures lead to more sales for airlines — that’s the philosophy behind a growing bookings system that offers what Reuters called on Tuesday (June 5) a “more engaging visual approach to marketing” of tickets. carriers, and, of that, almost 100 percent is from baggage charges and booking changes.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

According to Hugo Monteiro, co-founder and technology advisor for homesharing platform Spotahome , home rental services need to offer more security features to assuage the growing concerns expressed by consumers. Yet, as consumers start to expect faster service with more security, payments can be a major undertaking for booking sites.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Some want to book gear rentals close to the day or days they will need them, while others tend to plan over the longer term. Prices vary depending on availability (that is, seasonality) and location, though consumers who book for longer will get lower day rates, he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Oyo asks owners to upgrade them to meet some basic standards – clean linen and bathrooms, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, breakfast and properly groomed staff – and rents their rooms out at bargain-basement prices, using homegrown technology meant to optimize occupancy rates.”. Winning Formula. Retail Influences.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Fortunately, it appears the recreational market is getting some much-needed innovation to help organizations and associations process payments and participant registration. One company that is innovating in the sports and recreation industry is Amilia, an online registration and membership management platform.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Companies are using artificial intelligence (AI), application platform interfaces (APIs) and other technologies to create new channels for service and customer communication to appeal to a wide range of users. And in a reverse move, Airbnb has acquired Hotel Tonight to expand its customer base.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Today, few travelers would go to an agent to book a flight – they’d just do it themselves online. They’re going to blame not just the technology, but your restaurant.”. The company was built on the belief that, if Amazon could do it for books, why couldn’t they do it for food? Ordering dinner wasn’t like ordering a book.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Millennials and Generation Y have grown up with cybercrime, the executive stated, and parents must have “another type of talk” with their kids: the online safety and security talk, as Volmar termed it. When asked what innovation he expected but had not yet seen, Volmar replied, “I would have thought that there would have been U.S.

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William Mills

APRIL 20, 2017

This year’s National Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference & Expo took place March 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. There was a good deal of buzz around blockchain technology and tech showcases of the industry’s latest technology entrants, and the overall vibe of the show was a positive one.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Online book stores.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

Technology and conventional wisdom can get things horribly wrong at the intersection of tech-driven innovation and commerce. Discussion over the ways to embrace and promote innovation — especially as it pertains to connected devices — spilled over into the investment and artificial intelligence realms as Prof. Or a moral.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Talking cars that drive themselves and disembodied digital butlers are the stuff of sci-fi sitcoms and comic book movie franchises. As the report highlights, the trend is also visible among surveyed bridge millennial consumers, more than half of whom travel to and from work each day. Voice Technology Accelerates.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. As the company claims in the F-1: “Farfetch is the leading technology platform for the global luxury fashion industry.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

A big part of the trend is driven by younger consumers — that is, the interest on the part of millennials in using recycled clothing, and caution on the part of the luxury brands in terms of what they can do online. Resale Factors. That potential IPO speaks to the appeal and growth of resale commerce. It also said 44 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. Like many of their fellows, they were young, entrepreneurial and technology-minded. A lot of younger millennial parents are turning to Google to find answers to these questions,” adds Halsall. “So

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We see technology proven in mature markets such as in the U.K., It’s not technology that is holding us up. I’ve read 10 books on blockchain this year, so I rest my case. Millennials (and I use this term with caution) aren’t very tolerant of “lame” technology. I’ve got more digital wallets than credit cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon sold one, and only one, product: books. Payments innovators saw the mobile, digital future, too, and invested in ways to remove friction at checkout.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

On the human side of the conversation, frustration ensues — and among millennials, it can turn into “Bye, Felipe,” as the customer churns out of whatever business created the bad experience. But before picking it, organizations must be confident in the technology that will keep that data secure. Brown said it’s not out of reach.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

“Alexa, show me some cool FI, payments and commerce innovations.”. Some were focused on giving chatbots a run for their money in the customer service arena, while others are using the technology to make financial services more accessible to a variety of customer segments. Best Innovation Group (BIG). Enter Alexa. ” Exa.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. million such pieces. Google … and Ad-Supported Search .

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 24, 2017

Millennials this…”, “Small businesses that…”, Community banks are…”. Samuel Arbesman argues for a shrinking half-life of facts in his book, The Half-Life of Facts. I saw this up close and personal as part of a research effort exploring the current and likely evolution of retail delivery channel technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

Between media, technology, lessons, fun zones, classes, ropes course and various cultural hotspots like museums, planetariums and aquariums, there are no shortage of ways to fill a child’s time. We’re more focused right now on innovating than trying to get as many families on the platform as quickly as we can,” says Evans.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Technology is taking us to a world where we never have to leave our homes. Rather than build a new warehouse or rely on tried-and-tested technologies for picking products off shelves, Target decided to try a “new breed of robots.”. That the technology will change distribution is certain. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

As the travel industry shifts into higher digital gear, and increasingly responds to the needs and desires of new consumer groups — millennials and Gen Z among them — some players are getting left behind and making their way into the history books. That’s the general case with travel search startup Hipmunk.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said. “People are living in all different places.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In a world inundated by 140 character attention spans, speed texting acronyms and strong competition for millennial market share, many people challenge the traditional Associated Press (AP) Style that has been the foundation of journalism and corporate communications for the last 50 years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Remember, before Grubhub bought LevelUp, Chase put a few tens of millions into them as the technology partner that would ignite Chase Pay acceptance at QSRs. That strategy allowed Amazon to build a critical mass of consumers and more inventory for books and music and then lots of other things too that got their own flywheel going.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS had previous covered, way back in 2017, cloud-based travel and expense report management solution Certify bought nuTravel in a deal designed to enable Certify to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology. But millennials are hardly the only force for change in the broader travel industry. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

No one wants to see someone break the Guinness Book of World Records for continuous hiccups, which lasted 68 years. Other favorites over the last several years have included “too big innovate,” “too big to pivot,” “too big to keep up with the modern world,” and “too big to ever attract Millennials.”. Big Banks Breakout Weak.

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Tech and Finance

JUNE 14, 2018

I publish occasionally at the Articulate Communications blog on issues of financial technology, banking and associated public relations and marketing topics. In the past I have written about design thinking, how to avoid bank PR-speak and whether banking and innovation belong in the same sentence.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Adherence to corporate travel booking policies is slipping. At the same time, a younger workforce is advancing, while technology is enabling the sharing economy to proliferate – and enabling travelers to book itineraries across devices and platforms. “More millennials are coming into the workforce and are self-sufficient.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

I was reminded of this phenomenon recently after scanning a bunch of stories that described a variety of “disruptive” innovations in payments. Books and articles today abound about how platforms are the slick new models that will rule the world — tempting businesses with a “winning” formula for devising new and disruptive businesses.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 4, 2016

What does it take to thrive in a world of rapid technological change? Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane , the new book by Moven founder and CEO Brett King marks the latest addition to a growing literature of futurism and prognostication on technology. So what are 21st century technological revolutions made of?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Technology is booming for business. A roundup of new research released last week revolves around the adoption of innovation and the trend away from legacy tools. But that doesn’t mean every business is keeping up with the tech times or with every kind of technology.

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