PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket. The company sells teas, brewing pots, and storage items, as well as greeting cards and stationery. Treebo Hotels. Chai Point.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Its abundance in payments and commerce is what inspires innovators to challenge a friction-filled status quo and create something new. But none rose to the level of the seriously friction-filled experiences that might motivate a would-be innovator to quit her day job and give up her life to solve for it.

Boston 124

Boston Regulation Innovation Study 124

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Visa And The Future Of Venue Payments.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Visa And The Future Of Venue Payments.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World.

San Diego 130

San Diego Apple America Mobile 130

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. We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. But a lot has stayed the same.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

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. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices. For those consumers who prefer not to use mobile apps, contactless cards will pick up the cashless slack.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Aid has notably come in from all corners, particularly the card networks.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Which means in these early days, FIS and their collaborators at the MiLB have three main priorities. One is making the merchant payments experiences smoother, so that customers at the concession stand can swipe their cards or tap their phones without issue at any stadium.

Cards 115

Cards Community Boston Payments 115

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

Apple 100

Apple Houston Boston Mobile 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. I recall three years ago at Innovation Project 2013 that a rather prescient panelist said that the payments system’s worst nightmare would be having the SWIFT network breached. You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

But despite the general interest in the area, the conversations around innovation and what’s next in technology isn’t always directed at women, or particularly tailored to their interests. We all want to know what ‘it’ is it in our technology, our clothes and our personal lives.”.

Groups 158

Groups Las Vegas Retail Branding 158

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

Retail 156

Retail Branding Millennials Online 156

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 in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! It’s a tall order.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments. Here ya go… SIZZLE.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. 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. million users, up from 9.2

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

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.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

During this time, you can add a promo code, change the suggested runner tip, and choose which card you’d like to use. The main obstacles preventing them from evolving into omnichannel merchants? Flour, a Boston-based bakery with multiple locations across the city, is among the eateries Favor users can order from.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

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. But to remind all of us that payment innovations are only as good as the certainty those innovations deliver to their intended users.

Payments 195

Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Early Innovations in Crowdfunding. Because the idea worked, it spread – first throughout the West Coast, where Christmas kettles caught on quickly, and then in the East after McFee was stationed in Boston (at which point they added the bells). with consumers choosing it over debit or credit cards for day-to-day purchases.

San Francisco 160

San Francisco Oakland Maine Boston 160

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Twenty-six million strong, employing 50 percent of the workforce and creating 65 percent of all new jobs, SMBs and storefronts that line the side streets and main streets of our cities and towns are the fuel that keeps our economic engines humming, roughly 100 million Americans employed and what feeds a thriving middle class. economy pumping.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Why do mobile payment users choose another method if they have taken the trouble to load their card data? There is a difference in the choice of debit or credit card as a funding source among users. Meanwhile, only 44 percent of Apple Pay users prefer to use a debit card as a funding source and 50 percent use a credit card.

Mobile 100

Mobile Samsung Apple Payments 100

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Peace Among Merchants and Card Networks. Seriously a Sizzle!

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. HQ: Boston, MA. In today’s world there is uncertainty around many things, your finances don’t have to be one of them. Key Executives.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

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? Innovators like Drizly have turned the sale of alcohol into something that can now not only be bought online but delivered the same day — sometimes, in the same hour. Take books, for example.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

It could aggregate payments cards, loyalty cards, store coupons, and maybe even convert a consumer’s physical identity into something digital so that a consumer could literally leave home without her wallet. That’s also like saying the average winter temperature in Boston is 37 degrees. MasterCard is doing the same thing.

Retail 90

Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

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. State of Innovation Report. It was a genuinely innovative insight into allocating capital, dressed up as a 2×2.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. As we become more conscious of avoiding frequently touched surfaces, touchless modes of entry will displace traditional card swiping. Source: KCDC/CDC.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

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.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

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. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

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. Main Street merchants banded together in the early 1890s to complain to lawmakers about the impact of department stores on their own businesses. Sound familiar?

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

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. Just like the consumer that every retailer and innovator hopes to attract makes their decisions about where and how to shop in the physical store. There’s some interesting data to back it up.

Retail 100

Retail Study Branding Data 100