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JANUARY 25, 2018

Reviver Auto seeks to bring the license plate into the digital age via its rPlate, which acts as a digital display, tied, of course, to license plate numbers, but with an eye on connectivity. Boston noted that, with the traditional and entrenched methods, “your registration is sent out to an address.” It’s onerous.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The WSJ reported that Boston-based Bain raised the funds even though other global impact funds have struggled with fundraising this year, drawing just $14.6 billion through Nov. 20 compared with $76.2 billion through the same date in 2019. The rule in question was adopted in its final form on Oct. 20 and takes effect on Jan.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

WeWork significantly altered course after losing money, shedding employees because it grew too fast and concerned shareholders. Sonder closed 100 units in Boston last year after city regulations were modified, impacting its business model.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Cubic said that some of the contactless technology , software and equipment developed for Sydney will be in Cubic projects that will be rolled out over the course of the next few years in cities such as New York, Boston, and San Francisco. That is being made possible by recent contract wins by the company.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality. Hair salons, of course, were shut down completely during the pandemic, and their reopening was gradual. More troubling is that her salon is on Newbury Street, a fancy-schmancy shopping street in Boston. Saving Main Street.

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MAY 5, 2020

The fact that fraudsters use tragedy for their own gain is nothing new, of course. But attack vectors and sheer COVID-induced mayhem are ideal conditions for cybertheft, and CUs are in the crosshairs of several familiar scams that have rapidly spread, much like COVID itself.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Over the course of the last few years, eCommerce has sprung up and put the brick-and-mortar side of the retail industry on notice. Forty-five percent of retailers are planning to use AI in the next few years, according to the latest research from Boston Retail Partners. More retailers are likely moving in a similar direction.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2017

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. The rain and clouds couldn't obscure spectacular views from the State Room overlooking the Boston harbour. And of course, congratulations to Caixa Bank , our Model Bank of the Year 2017 ! OakNorth Bank, UK. Banking in the Cloud. Radius Bank, USA.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

As many as 40 percent of individuals are shopping online more often, which of course means they are shopping in stores less often. Additionally, of the more than 2,100 consumers surveyed, 57 percent of consumers said that the availability of digital payment options would impact their choices of where to shop.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Frameworks, of course, offer guideposts and at least some movement toward standardization. of course, is not standing still. In this case, digital currencies – no matter the provenance – should work well enough to be interchangeable with paper bills and metal coins. The Federal Reserve Bank has been exploring a digital currency.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Separately, of course, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has said that a test of a CBDC rests with small retail transactions — not large-volume transactions. An increase in protectionist policies” may present risks in a landscape where foreign payment service firms still are dominant, she said.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

The crypto landscape is littered with digital tokens, with promise and peril, with stories of booms … and, of course, more recently, busts. Of course, some of those investors got in well before the downturn, and may still be holding onto gains. In fact, busts on a devastating scale. There’s a sea change here, perhaps.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

It launched the first executive education course focused on direct selling last week in Winter Park, Florida. The iconic door-to-door brand is of course Avon. When the circumstances are right, door-to-door sales can be a powerful means of acquiring customers and increasing revenues,” a Boston Consulting Group noted.

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APRIL 17, 2018

As of this month (April), Target customers in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington D.C. Target, of course, has competitors other than Amazon on its mind as it ups the level of its delivery and digital game. will find it easier to get the goods they want that much faster.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. Boston Medical, for example, has had about 3,000 people start the program since it became available in 2016, but have only had about 350 finish it.

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MAY 2, 2016

According to reports in Bloomberg , this is the second big geographical area to go online with Prime following some reporting in Bloomberg Businessweek that indicated some potentially disturbing disparities in where the service is (and is not) available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Washington.

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APRIL 8, 2016

Boston Consulting Group has estimated that as much as $2.5 Of course, as the news agencies have stated, many Swiss banks have been tied to various financial scandals (e.g., The nation itself is among the biggest drawing grounds for offshore wealth deposits. trillion has resided in the banks there as of recently.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Its seriousness brought into stark relief by the $81mm Bangladeshi incident (something my cab driver in Boston asked about on the way to the airport!), Technology, of course, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success; banks must be culturally able to integrate with new partners quickly and flexibly.

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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. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

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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. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In September 2016, the last survey, some things had changed: London New York Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo San Francisco Boston Chicago Zurich Washington DC No Frankfurt. I said yes, of course. No China, although Hong Kong would be it. He laughed and didn’t write a complementary story about our meeting.

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JULY 5, 2017

This once-free social networking site, over the course of the 11 years it existed, assembled millions of people who freely shared their experiences with each other and the entirety of the web. The citizens of Boston didn’t need a government report to tell them what was wrong, because taxi service in Boston was pretty pathetic.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2020

The question is what happens if loans go sour — which means, of course, that banks get dinged if they do. In terms of mechanics, banks make the loans, the Fed keeps most of it on its books (95 percent) — and so banks hold 5 percent. As noted by several lawmakers in a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It’s not wholly undeserved, of course. And adapting to those evolutions – and following them through, ” The Tie Bar CEO Allyson Lewis noted in an interview Lewis is how the eCommerce Tie Bar brand made a full migration to permanent physical stores — now up and running in Boston, Chicago and New York.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms is taking a different approach, leveraging data to optimize value throughout the supply chain — and, of course, track production every step of the way.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

Indeed, the general sports world – and the NFL, of course, is included in that in a big way – is also adapting to the increasing popularity of online sports betting , with 10 states passing rules regulating the activity in 2018 after the Supreme Court ruled in favor. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2016

Today’s roster ranges from an artificial intelligence data analytics service for brick-and-mortar stores to expand into e-commerce, to providing the crash course most of us unfortunately still need to understand what the heck Read More.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Part of the settlement is that, now, however, drivers can ask passengers for tips (in cash, of course) and hang signs in their cars stating that the fares do not include tips. In some cities like Boston, there is a $15 minimum – so an $8 or $9 taxi ride ends up being 40 percent more. Then, of course, there’s the issue of surge pricing.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. I say yes, because … well, what else is there to say?

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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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APRIL 29, 2017

So in some sense, it is not surprising that the team at Boston Dynamics chose a dog to be their robotic delivery beast. Spot is Boston Dynamics’ attempt to branch out some — since before being bought by Google, its robots were largely funded by military contracts. D. Something they’d never want to see at their front door.

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MARCH 17, 2020

With all due respect and apologies, a triple whammy was served up in Boston today: Tom Brady is leaving the New England Patriots, the coronavirus has shuttered bars on St. Of course, Brady leaves a legacy of excellence and left on good terms,” Passikoff added. Patrick’s Day and an unseen contagion is in place.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

This has the attention of the nation’s regulators and the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, who recently spoke in Boston at the Interagency Outreach Meeting on the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act. Of course, collaboration must not violate antitrust laws and is subject to third-party relationship guidance.

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MARCH 6, 2018

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. And, of course, he wants to grow more items than just mushrooms.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ .

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