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Top 5 Emerging Fintech Hubs in The U.S.

Bank Innovation

Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. These cities boast strong tech communities, talent pools, good coffee, and cheaper rents. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

PYMNTS

T-shirts may seem like a simple product, but according to Spreadshirt, there is a ton of hard data and analytics at the core of even the softest shirt. Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6

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Google Moves In Where Amazon, GE Move Out

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Amazo n and GE may be giving up on New York City and Boston respectively, but Google is taking a different approach, expanding in both cities. The report noted that at the same time that GE was announcing it was pulling out of Boston, Google unveiled a big expansion with Cambridge, the city that is home to Harvard and MIT.

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Citi: Healing Broken PPE Supply Chains With Streamlined Cross Border Payments

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But in a collaborative effort with Flywire , Citi Commercial Bank is working to accelerate these transactions for Boston-area hospitals that need equipment fast. Citi and Flywire are putting their decade-old partnership to a new use in an initiative with The Boston Foundation , a community foundation connecting nonprofits to funding.

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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud.

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‘Google Checking,’ T-Mobile Data Breach Top This Week’s News

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We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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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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