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

MAY 4, 2016

Uber has shown that it’s far from shy about putting its brand alongside other ventures, and it’s recently demonstrated propensity for non-automotive transport is an indication that innovators there don’t lack the spine to take some risks when necessary. We’re excited to partner with Visa on this initiative.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

At the same time, he saw innovation and growth in the Airbnb short-term rental space. Consumers pay for their storage by credit card, and the hosts get paid out every Friday through Stripe , which Korbel said “is our third-party payment processor.”. Korbel noted there is a lot of attention and innovation around smart cities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

If we had a nickel for every mobile wallet that had come and gone in that time period, we would at this point be larger than The New York Times. The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway. True in 2009.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

but this growth was stymied because customers were required to preload credit cards into their apps to use the program. All they had to do to earn points was scan a QR code on the Dunkin’ app or swipe a new physical membership card. DD Perks accounts for approximately 13 percent of all Dunkin’ sales in the U.S.,

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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. And the news also comes after most of the interchange cases brought by merchants in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna said it plans to use the funds to expand its team, focus on sales and continue innovation efforts. Cybersecurity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Filling that hole — and making it easy for customers to get their drinks delivered right to their doors — is an area that caught the eye of many an innovator. 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.”

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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. CAP COM and SEFCU in New York come to together to create an $8 billion cooperative organization. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington. Credit Union Merger of the Year. GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. It’s just not what people want anymore,” Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York consultancy The Retail Doctor, told The Washington Post. “If The sandwich chain will be redirecting its focus to international expansion even as it loses market share in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

A manual published in the late 1800s for New York City school teachers may not seem like a likely source of favored conventional wisdom. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. Aeromexico.

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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. CBS rejected a proposed one-minute ad (that potentially would have cost over $10 million) from Acreage Holdings, a New York-based medical marijuana company. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth!

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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. Here’s perhaps the best quote to date on the topic, courtesy of The New York Times yesterday.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

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JULY 11, 2023

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

.” The company operates six permanent and two temporary locations in the New York City area, as well as one at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group.

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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. and more restrictions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

cities may get a bit cheaper through the use of prepaid cards, thanks to Uber. Uber said on its website that riders can use commuter prepaid cards to pay for uberPOOL, its carpool ride service. Uber also said that existing users can add these benefits to their payment options by adding the prepaid card number.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

With the launch of its new, end-to-end biometric authentication solution – VeridiumID – the security innovator that demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2014 as Hoyos Labs is now Veridium. Oxford and London), as well as in Boston, Massachusetts; and Timisoara, Romania. The company also has offices in the U.K.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. HQ: New York City. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models. Installment credit options also help convert more shoppers to buyers by financing a single product — instead of having to rely on a credit card. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008.

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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. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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. Source: New York Times. As we become more conscious of avoiding frequently touched surfaces, touchless modes of entry will displace traditional card swiping.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via New York Magazine. via Beta Boston. via The New York Times. Select VC Investors: New Enterprise Associates, US Venture Partners. For millions of consumers accustomed to using credit and debit cards, the proposition of using a fingerprint hasn’t been all that appealing. Company: Rdio.

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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. Margaret Mead’s mother, Emily Fogg Mead, wrote in 1901 that department stores and the consumer’s thirst for consumption drove the invention of entirely new products.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Product: Besomebody.

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