CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

This solution will make it easier for receivers in those markets to receive and use funds instantly (via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card), and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds. All of those transactions will happen in near real time, he explained. billion euros.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A and a footprint in roughly 30 cities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO Where’s the effort to wow us? Once the brand ran out of German shepherd masks, Eagles fans adopted other dogs. Hey, we’re Boston-based.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Then, there was the announcement of Square Capital’s partnership with Upserve , a restaurant management system (the same one that also acquired Breadcrumb from Groupon in May) to extend working capital to restaurants. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. You tell us. With large banks, including Ally and Capital One, officially doing away with overdraft fees, banks and credit unions will have to decide how they want to handle the new reality. 82% to over 2.3%

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Boston Children’s Hospital created an in-house innovation accelerator.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Since a 2016 low, the number of US-based, VC-backed tech companies has steadily increased. The US initial public offering market is broken. STAYING PRIVATE.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Bento for Business (acquired by US Bank, Aug 2021) FAB Score = 11. – Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ).

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Bento for Business (acquired by US Bank, Aug 2021) FAB Score = 11. – Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ).

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings. Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. Bilal Zuberi, Lux Capital. Select Investors: Bezos Expeditions, Lux Capital, Shasta Ventures. Element AI. Data Collective.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). the Future of food report.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Foot Locker is closing 110 stores, Abercrombie & Fitch is closing 60 stores, department store Bon-Ton is possibly headed toward liquidation, and Toys R’ Us has shut down completely. The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Small businesses are also risky businesses, and the Small Business Administration tells us that 60 percent of them won’t make it past their first birthday, never mind reaching their second, third or magic five-year milestones. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Which brings us to where we are today. Census tells us that more than 90 percent of sales still happen in the physical store. Those are also the same things that most people couldn’t care less about being a name brand, meaning it’s not just the grocery stores that are singing the blues. Guess what? We’re on the other side.

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CB Insights

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. The total number of MBAs granted in the US rose from about 4,000 a year in the 1940s to more than 170,000 a year now.

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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. And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are.

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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. Brands today don’t even need stores – they can now go directly to the consumer, on channels like Instagram.

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