PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

Google 129

Google Mobile Data Capital 129

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

From loyalty to inventory management and data to omnicommerce strategy, there’s no shortage of available features and options for retailers looking to upgrade to full-service payments solutions. Even after a retailer does find a suitable option, integrating the system into their operations can be a challenge.

Payments 100

Payments Boston Retail System 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Goldman Denies Discriminatory Apple Card Practices, Says It Will Reassess Limits. Goldman Sachs has promised to reevaluate how credit limits are determined for Apple Card users after being accused of gender discrimination. Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Google Dives Into DDAs. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

Google 139

Google Payments Apple cryptocurrency 139

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

Retail 101

Retail Payments Boston Innovation 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). So much so that P97 will go live this week with one of the largest fuel retailers in the United States, across 10,000 U.S. The Available Data. Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas. Hands-Free Commerce.

Millennials 109

Millennials Boston Retail Mobile 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service. have been settled.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

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. s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week.

Retail 108

Retail Nashville Seattle Boston 108

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

That retail is changing rapidly — and that many of its oldest and most established players are struggling to keep pace — is not much of a surprise these days. Everyone knows retailers are in trouble — at this point, the whole market knows it. And retailers also know they have a problem,” said Arish Ali, CEO of Skava.

Retail 116

Retail Mobile Miami Marketing 116

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to completing in-store payments, 36 percent of customers prefer to use credit cards and 33 percent opt for debit cards. Card acceptance has also been key. Boston’s regulations stipulate that Zinneken’s can’t just lay claim to its favorite locations, however. Zinneken’s Serves Sweets With Speed .

Massachusetts 100

Massachusetts Boston Cards Operations 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Consumers can interact with a selection of curated goods using technology that the publisher believes will power the next generation of the omnichannel retail experience. Since Marie Claire is working with Neiman Marcus as its retail partner, they are styling outfits that fit into those three segments. The Marie Claire Customer.

Groups 158

Groups Las Vegas Retail Branding 158

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. At NFL events and shops, there will be an MVP checkout lane that encourages cashless payment, whether it’s through a card or a wearable. We are mostly kidding about that. Snack Time. per person.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. . – and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

According to PYMNTS data , when surveyed directly, 38.4 Imagine if, instead of getting a ‘flu fighter’ Band-Aid at the pharmacy when getting the vaccine, that person got an eGift card that is spendable at the pharmacy. In short, COVID-19’s second wave is building to a terrifying crest just as a vaccine is coming soon(ish).

Arizona 160

Arizona Survey Boston Examples 160

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That lawmakers have now put any big tech company that uses consumer data in the same bucket: bad guys out to make billions of bucks at the consumer’s expense. It’s that last point though — one now central to the current Facebook data debate — that I find most unsettling. They aren’t all like Facebook.

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

Mobile 100

Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

At least, that’s what leading psychologists say the data shows. There’s data on that, too. In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. Then, amid all that consumer data, comes the debate over who owns said data. Data in its proper context was one topic of conversation.

Payments 102

Payments Innovation Data Course 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. Then, amid all that consumer data, comes the debate over who owns said data. Data in its proper context was one topic of conversation.

Payments 102

Payments Innovation Data Course 102

PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

The Department of Transportation will use the back-end support of Cubic Transportation and, in collaboration with Passport, will change the EASY Card revenue management system to allow travelers to buy fares using contactless, check balances on the cards, view account history and manage accounts through a new app.

Samsung 100

Samsung Google Mobile Millennials 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

The service is available in several major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., By digging into data from the MealPal platform, Biggins said she has gleaned insights into how the company’s customers behave during their lunch hour. Always on the Menu: Delicious Data. San Francisco and Miami.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Meeting Miami 100

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. The retail experience does. I used the “Fastlane” analogy for US retail at NextBank. NFC, BLE beacons and other wireless protocols applied to retail are scenario two. What can I say? I crack myself up.

Google 70

Google Apple Retail Boston 70

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Based on a clearly defined strategy, this team has established a dedicated fintech group that offers services ranging from BaaS to sponsoring card issuance and lending, to providing crypto services, to offering niche partnerships to the gaming industry. Man, this is the bread and butter of retail banking and credit unions.

Fintech 147

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 147

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Fees follow. Epperson, technology consultant.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 All of this was coincident with reports of widespread app outages, with MoviePass running out of money and taking a short-term, high-interest loan just to fund member purchasing cards. Though Coinrail is one of its smaller exchanges, the hackers still made off with $19.5

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Race Data – @RaceDataSystems – [link]. Turn data into energized relationships. Race dashboard: Large data set to work with. Visualizing banking data and using wealth of data to put customer in control for better decisions.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Get past the benign silliness of that retail and fulfillment dream and you’ll be reminded that Amazon is always pushing at the commerce and payments frontier. But it seems more than clear that when it comes to healthcare, grocery and food, Amazon is intent on pushing the retail and services frontier much more in the coming years.

Retail 108

Retail Operations Analysis Boston 108

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. How very unlikely these days. Who’da thunk it?

Retail 90

Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Takeaway 2 Generative AI models emulate data put into them to generate apparently new content such as text, images, audio, or video. Background for genAI use cases Defining generative AI for banking Generative AI is a class of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can create new content—text, images, audio, or video—from existing data.

Examples 195

Examples Fraud Resources Risk Management 195

Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s called Card Risk Assessment for Blackjack Scenarios, or CRABS for short. From Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald’s, increases awareness of Google Wallet and… | Killer Apps TV ]. The only card he had with him was that driving licence that S. Out of nowhere, N.

Las Vegas 45

Las Vegas Apple Meeting Analysis 45

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The good news, according to PYMNTS data , is that as 2020 is coming to a close, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are feeling genuinely more confident about their odds of continued survival than they were when the pandemic began. Aid has notably come in from all corners, particularly the card networks.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

billion) and First Data ($2.6 First Data Corporation. Gift cards backed with public company equity. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Tags: Enterprise, investing, wealth management, data analytics. The vast majority, $5.9 Latest round: $3.3 billion IPO. Payment processing.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech New York 12

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

Ixaris landed $6 million for its prepaid card platform. million for its business data service. Prepaid card payments platform. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Tags:Consumer, merchants, payments, POS, acquiring, debit/credit cards, mobile. Tags:Consumer, merchants, payments, POS, acquiring, debit/credit cards, mobile.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech Minnesota 12

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s why PYMNTS and InfoScout track those burning questions and more — and we have plenty of news to share in this week’s Mobile Payments Tracker as we continue last week’s delve into the PYMNTS/InfoScout mobile payments adoption data. Why do mobile payment users choose another method if they have taken the trouble to load their card data?

Mobile 100

Mobile Samsung Apple Payments 100

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Financial data for private equity funds. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Total raised: Unknown.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100