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Boston Fed Takes On Cyber Risks, FinTech Competition

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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren delivered a speech yesterday (April 4) at the bank’s 2016 Cybersecurity Conference highlighting the economic and cyber risks financial institutions are facing today.

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Walmart Online Chief Departs

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Online retail is known for moving fast, and sometimes, the execs pulling all the levers behind the scenes move even faster. online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1. online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1. “We’re in the process of identifying a successor.”

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Blockchain Technology Not Suitable for Visa’s Core Business

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At the JPMorgan Technology, Media and Communications conference in Boston yesterday, Kelly said: Remember blockchain actually is not very good about facilitating low-value high-volume scale transactions, which is the core of what we do. […].

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Five Ways QSRs Are Encouraging Diners To Skip Lines And Order Ahead

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Taziki’s Mediterranean Café , for instance, has seen its online and to-go orders increase by 200 percent over the past three years. These are just some of the ways that QSRs have recently sought to reinvent their mobile and online ordering experiences to encourage diners skip the line and order ahead: The total number of U.K.

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2019: The Year Of Retailer And Delivery App Collaborations

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It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. Starbucks kicked off 2019 by adding additional cities to its delivery network through a partnership with Uber Eats. and Chicago. Hoffmann said at the time, “Grubhub is No.

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QSRs Supersize Their Digital Ante

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During a conference call with analysts late last week (July 25), Starbucks President and CEO Kevin Johnson said the company continues to learn as it expands and drives customer awareness of the new channel. And there are plans to expand the service to additional markets in the coming months, including Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Cosi Files, But Are Sears, Claire’s Next In Line?

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Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Cosi operated 74 company-owned restaurants and 31 franchised restaurants in 15 states at the time of filing. The company also fired CEO R.J. Dourney and other executives in August. “We

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