Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. Expensive Cities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market. He noted there has been additional input from the FedNow Community of 700 members.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2019

That is not cheap, of course, but it doesn’t sound so bad – until one realizes that the problem with averages is that they are, well, averages. 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. Co-living opens you up to an instant community and connections. Convents have been closing.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 1, 2019

I've heard opinions on whether a community bank should buy checking accounts. A community bank head of consumer lending recently told me he did the same with a Key Bank offer. A guess, of course. years duration based on FHLB Boston's spot rates at the time of printing. Sure, the big banks seem to be on the bandwagon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. The current team is more than 100 strong and has outgrown its small Kendall Square office, according to news from The Boston Globe ; the expansion will accommodate all of them comfortably, plus 500 more.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. So first, we’ll look at how two community banks have become trusted pillars of the community through charity work and good old?fashioned billion-asset community bank. Build your community. It’s in their DNA.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

When you make it super easy to farm something, it becomes a whole new business opportunity for a community. Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. The idea is — over the course of the next coming to years — to replace the produce aisle,” DeMartino said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

That’s not all, of course. “No The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. We want to build a community around shared values,” Cherny noted. No one wants to pay bank fees,” Cherny added. But such goals can be easier to plan than to meet when it comes to attracting banking customers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

A royal celebrity endorsement is, of course, always nice – and certainly a good way to get a brand’s name in print. The pop-up program is also designed around building a sense of community, or at least a communal conversation, about their offerings. For this launch, Club Monaco is again working with Diptyque Paris.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Seventy-nine percent of consumers report that the merchants they shop with have added or improved their digital-first and touchless experiences over the course of the pandemic. That big bump in the estimation of services among consumers seems to be a direct outgrowth of the volume of capabilities merchants have added. It takes guts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

million over the course of the next three years to build up a FinTech hub in Charlotte. Here is an except of the conversation: PYMNTS: Can you describe your personal and/or professional experience with the tech community in Charlotte? As we reported about three weeks ago, Bank of America has announced its plans to invest $1.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

Of course not, but the mere indication that top executives and defense officials are willing to coordinate in an intermediary space, somewhere between a boardroom and a courtroom, echoes Carter’s earlier plea. and the new ones in the Bay Area.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Increasingly, more digitally connected consumers are saying yes to that question with their community bank. For many community banks, telephone calls still generate the highest volumes of customer service interactions. Several retail service experts say it will apply to your community bank, if it doesn’t already. 1% Don’t know.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

. – beach trips, outdoor cooking, waterparks and, of course, baseball. Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Minor league parks often have something of a unique relationship with their communities. Loyalty as they are working on it now, John noted, is just the first phase – but there is more to come.

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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. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. Every season has a certain defining characteristic. For those keeping score at home, that is 39.6 billion calories.

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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. 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.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” 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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

The state’s website, Mass.Gov , estimates there are 116 craft breweries in Massachusetts, with 25 of them located in the Greater Boston area. Doing that, of course, means again breaking through approval red tape. “I In Massachusetts, however, the craft beer market is far from reaching a saturation point, she said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true. A couple of years later, Revolution Money sold itself to American Express for $300 million, which of course is chump change for technology that’s going to transform payments! Except, of course, YouTube.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2015.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. Of course where consumers are having conversations these days is inside of messaging apps and via text.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Boston-based Tracksmith, Taylor said, wanted to be an alternative for runners — real runners — who are looking for gear specifically focused on them and their needs. And the Boston-based brand’s only shop is located right next to the finish line for the Boston Marathon.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

If one board member splits time between Florida and Boston, it can hold up approval until that person is available to sign. The FinTech automates invoice management and payment processes for several HOA management companies today, and its recent partnership with Bradenton, Florida-based Premier Community Bank will build on that, Praeger said.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 23, 2017

Financial Inclusion – for efforts to bring financial services to unbanked and under-banker communities. And of course, we also kept our Model Bank of the Year award, first introduced in 2012, which recognises one financial institution that in any given year simply stands out from the crowd and uniformly impresses Celent judges.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

The following quarter (Q1’14), Vornado provided an update and affirmed its interest in the partnership: “By the middle of next year, they will open 250 community style residential units, with an imaginative design and dynamic shared social space. It’s really important that we get this kind of clientele coursing through Crystal City.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Petryk, who said he was bullied ruthlessly as a kid from the third grade to high school, views his chain of Boston-based ice cream stores as safe havens that he wants to share with his community. “I The first store opened in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood (hence the initials J.P.), I was always a weirdo,” said Petryk. “I

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Of course, business openings are just one part of this story: Business exits (AKA failures) are the flip side of that small business coin — and where those same dismal scientists say there’s even more cause for concern. And that trend line really hasn’t reversed course all that much since then.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. According to new published data from Boston Retail Partners, Apple Pay has garnered the largest percentage of U.S. Speaking of watching — and watches…. Google has announced that many more Wear 2.0

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dream Exchange, which describes itself as the first minority-owned exchange in the world, intends to launch in 2021 and aims to create a more inclusive trading environment for smaller companies and empower minority communities. Of course, M&A is still a lucrative function for investment banks today. INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

The class-based model also centers heavily around community and socialization, which reflects millennials’ hunger for social contact. Rather, millennials are willing to pay a premium for fitness experiences that fulfill their desire for flexibility and community — and the fitness industry should take note. The Cigna U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Your idea plus four weeks of intensive mentoring by me and the lead Alexa developer evangelist will produce 12 ideas that the community will vote on for best in class Alexa skills. Another study done by a Boston University professor suggested that music itself is a marketing platform for alcohol. In the early part of the 2000s, a U.K.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. SB Drive focuses on advancing self-driving technology, especially related to public and community services such as buses.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. via Beta Boston. In a Boston Globe interview in January, he had indicated that the company’s financial performance was a pressing concern.

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