PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. They know they can do that anywhere they shop – the biggest of the big stores and the smallest of the mom-and-pop shops – and that their card will be accepted and will work. This Is the Human Brain on Habits.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

fans traveling to Boston for the start of the World Series will want to pack — and possibly purchase for the first time — sweaters, as this week will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy New England’s crisp fall weather. Gift Cards’ New Unfavorable Fans. As of September 2018, losses from gift-card fraud have hit $53 million.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. Eat Your Coffee accepts credit cards as well as express checkout options, including PayPal , Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The Differentiators.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

At one of the busiest locations, Oxford Circus, TfL noted there are almost half a million contactless journeys a week – the equivalent of 50 cards or smartphones being tapped every minute. For instance, New York, Sydney, Miami and Boston have all announced plans to introduce contactless payments in the coming years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

It’s why I said then that Google Search and Amazon and platforms like them — not Facebook — are among the new power brokers in our world. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. That’s not the case with Google Search. billion searches a day or some 1.2

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Of that 44 percent, 67 percent requested Apple Pay specifically, 18 percent requested Google Wallet and Android Pay, 8 percent requested PayPal and 7 percent requested Samsung Pay. “It “I would rather not be out here answering all those prompts, dipping cards, sweating.”

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Banks and card providers have been devoting a lot of attention recently to Asian markets, and it’s not hard to see why. Card providers have also been promoting the use of new solutions. With more than 1.3 billion potential customers in China alone, and a similar number in India, the opportunities for banks are immense.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. These ever-present wild cards can tip the balance of an ecosystem one way or the other — sometimes by working quietly under the surface for long periods of time to fortify its health and keep the balance intact. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. If Google has its way, passwords will be a thing of the past – and hip, hip, hooray for that. Google is said to begin testing an alternative to logging in with passwords in favor of one that mixes a bunch of things to authenticate the consumer. And will people want and use it?

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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. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square.

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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.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix. Cards are a perfect example.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Boston-based Drizly , which raised more than $35 million, has a foothold in 70 cities and a stated ambition to be the “Amazon of Alcohol.” Saucey delivers the alcohol with vetted and screened couriers who also scan the credit card and license of every delivery recipient.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

in assets and 32 branches in the Boston suburbs. Debit card. Booking.com is one exception, where the 6% cashback goes directly to your Novo card). Stripe ($20k in card processing volume, worth $500). Google Cloud ($3k credit; though it says $300 on Google’s website). SMB digital banks. 50 min deposit.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Maybe it is the umpteenth attempt by Google to insert itself into payments. Ask Google Video. It included the Internet giants of the day like Google, which launched Google Video, and Yahoo with Yahoo Video. It’s going to leapfrog those sleepy big giant payments networks. Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The world of B2B payments saw its latest significant acquisition play this week with Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill announcing its intention to acquire VersaPay, a company that provides cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions. Google, Amazon And Apple — The Connected Home Team Of Rivals . The B2B Receivables Revolution .

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. The software/platform pieces is the ability to use virtual card numbers. Plus the 1% rewards.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

At launch, to use the service, customers must use a Visa or Mastercard issued by one of the nation’s six largest banks: Bangkok Bank, KTC Credit Card, Citibank, Siam Commercial Bank, Kasikornbank and Krungsri Consumer. Google has announced that many more Wear 2.0 After a very public announcement of Wear 2.0

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2016

We take our weather very seriously in Boston.”. Apple Pay was new, everyone was excited and the world was more or less convinced that plastic cards were about to go the way of the typewriter. After all, who wants an analog solution like a card in a digital world? Spare me the cutesy icon that tries to make a joke about it.

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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. Select Investors: Google Ventures, Y Combinator, First Round Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Bloomberg Beta, Founders Fund, Fenway Summer Ventures, 7Percent, Wells Fargo & Company. Circle Internet Financial. Zume Pizza.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The only two companies that can do this are Apple and Google. So, on Amazon, you never peck in your credit card information, you never peck in your shipping address. PayPal’s been trying to do that for the past five years; they’ve failed. And they can do it for a few reasons. The first is Apple has like over 600 million accounts.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This is a message that US banks appear to be hearing loud and clear, at least according to the findings of a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Google, for example, has recently merged all its mobile wallet and payment offerings into a single brand. What does ‘mobile’ mean in the US?

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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”. Back to BA.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. By combining deep-learning and crowdsourcing methodologies, our platform collects and classifies user requests in real-time and then deploys the data back to all conversational channels, including Alexa, Google, FB Messenger, Phone and Texting. HQ: Boston, MA. Website: projectfinance.io. Founded: August 2017.

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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? Whipping out a card (or cash) has been how gasoline has been bought as long as there have been cars on the road. Google lets consumers buy from its search pages and via its YouTube videos.

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PYMNTS

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. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. Their twins. Our really, really bad weather.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Twenty-eight percent of all consumers owned a voice-activated speaker – and that was before this holiday season, when Amazon and Google reported millions more. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

When I realized I needed to buy a pair of spinning shoes for a spin class three days later, I went to Google to find articles on the latest and greatest styles, and then to Amazon to read reviews and make my purchase. Consumers can search on Google for products “near me” and find the store address, hours and websites to buy from.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The big question is whether those who still use Google to discover new products buy from the stores that Google helps them discover, or if it merely becomes a price and product comparison data point for what those searchers end up buying on Amazon. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The big question is whether those who still use Google to discover new products buy from the stores that Google helps them discover, or if it merely becomes a price and product comparison data point for what those searchers end up buying on Amazon. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”.

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Online Google Branding Retail 112

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The single page farewell letter the company website has been reduced to says, “For the past 3 years, our mission here at Plastc was to build and deliver the most technically ambitious smart card on the planet. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Product: Besomebody.

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