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. How Frosty Keeps Things Cool And Convenient . Frosty Ice Cream has deployed soft-serve trucks in the Boston area since 1958.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has. In about ten days.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here, a fraudster obtains a legitimate user’s details to take over their online accounts, enabling the theft of money or a credit card, according to Marianne Crowe, vice president in the Secure Payments Innovation and Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Education as an anti-fraud tool.

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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. They kept selling out of the bars, so they took a step back to think about how to scale the concept. He and his co-founder were in the same accounting class during his freshman year. The Differentiators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Biologists wanted to better understand how to keep the human body’s ecosystems from being devastated by disease, so humans could live longer, healthier lives. Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. It was how Uber used them both that really helped ignite its platform. Absent an energy source, the ecosystem dies.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

This year, Boston Retail Partners principal analyst Ken Morris shared his thoughts with Glossy on the closing department stores and what’s happening as a result. Those choosing to shop for their food with Amazon will be able to have their mobile wallets via the Amazon app charge their card upon exiting the premises. Not quite yet.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s one thing these players know how to do, it’s motivating people to take action and to use digital platforms and methods to distribute those incentives. 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

In some cities like Boston, there is a $15 minimum – so an $8 or $9 taxi ride ends up being 40 percent more. The ability to hop out of the car without digging into a jacket or a briefcase or a pocket or a handbag for a credit card — or a couple of bucks for a tip. Even more friction. The taxi business has suffered.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It’s a demographic that, Berger said, is always shopping – representing a lucrative opportunity for retailers who want people to pull out their credit cards to buy things they want, but don’t necessarily need. “These are not folks who only shop seasonally – they tend to shop opportunistically.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Things like the MetroCard in New York or the CharlieCard in Boston tend to be city-specific programs, and they have not been designed for the needs of the many millions of people who come to cities for brief periods of time – for vacation, on business trips, whatever,” Judge said. “Go Building A Better Future For Transport.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals. When I told him I was already a Prime member, he said, “awesome,” and handed me two pieces of paper.

Retail 156

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FICO

APRIL 11, 2022

As shown in the table below, large metropolitan areas encompassing Boston, New York, San Francisco, southern California, and Washington DC consistently surface for having the “bragging rights” for the largest percent of residents with an 850 perfect credit score. How FICO Can Help You Understand the FICO Score: Read What is a FICO® Score?

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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.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Community banks will continue to have representation in the mobile payments field through the Visa and MasterCard networks, and ICBA Bancard, ICBA’s electronic payments services program for community banks, is working closely with the card networks on the launch of Apply Pay as well as on other digital developments. Fees follow.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

PYMNTS caught up with Powers to talk about about how mobile payments have powered the mobile parking industry, how to encourage those unfamiliar with mobile payments to give parking apps a try, and what’s next down the road. Currently, Passport accepts all major card types, including Visa and MasterCard, as well as PayPal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

I said then that the payments and commerce power brokers of 2018 and beyond understand how to use context to monetize consumer intent without compromising their trust, their data and therefore their expectations of the platforms when using them. Why has the weather been so crappy for the Boston Marathon for the last 10 years?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. Like many small businesses (SMBs), he doesn’t accept cards. He seemed confused at first — obviously no one had ever tried to pay him this way — but I explained how it would work.

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Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

PopularBank

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

One of my projects focused on Popular’s commercial credit cards. Austin came to the Popular Bank Associate Trainee Program from Boston College, where he majored in finance and accounting and minored in philosophy. How was the work engaging or impactful? Meet Austin Parisi. Alumnus, 2018 Popular Bank Associate Trainee Program.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Credit HQ helps demonstrate to a small business how to start trading. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. Plus the 1% rewards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.). Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. They have to learn how to develop for a new OS. We don’t say that to be critical.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

On the other hand, many local businesses are looking to bring in younger customers who carry the weight of being trendsetters, tastemakers and influencers, but those establishments may not be clueless on exactly how to attract and keep such an audience. Many of the restaurants in Boston or across the U.S. BB: Yes, exactly.

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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. What will be interesting to watch is how exactly they [Great Hill] do it. for each share.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. In what was a huge blow for the DOJ who brought the antitrust case to court on behalf of merchants, the 66-page decision said that consumers weren’t harmed and if merchants didn’t like taking American Express cards because the fees were too high, they could just not take them. Better not.

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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? It is exactly the blue ocean opportunity that innovators are using technology and regulatory know-how to conquer. If it were only that straightforward. Take books, for example. Then, there’s fuel.

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Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

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. For example, if a new CPG brand is trying to figure out how to price its products, it has a fairly routinized problem on its hands.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

As we become more conscious of avoiding frequently touched surfaces, touchless modes of entry will displace traditional card swiping. Looking even further ahead, businesses will need to consider how to create more remote-friendly roles as office work becomes increasingly decentralized.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Playing the field might also depend on the time of the year or how crowded things get at your favorite spot. If you’re a chipmunk in Boston, you might not want to venture far or even stay out a long time when the weather is cold or snowy. You’ll exploit known places until you’re forced to explore — and then exploit — new ones.

Retail 100

Retail Study Branding Data 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But those concerns haven’t stopped consumers from using voice to access these new experiences, because they trust the primary enabler of those voice-enabled purchasing experiences – today that’s Amazon – as well as the underlying payment methods they use to make those purchases, which are network-branded credit and debit cards.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

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. But I had options: lots of choices for what to buy, places to find information about what to buy, a choice in how to buy it – and an easy way to access those options and choose before my class.

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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. Going into the specifics of how the business unraveled the letter says, “We were expecting to close a $3.5 Product: Besomebody.

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