PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

Bank Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2017

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. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge. These cities boast strong tech communities, talent pools, good coffee, and cheaper rents.

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New York City Fintech Georgia Boston 365

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As weaknesses in authorization systems can be exploited by online thieves, financial services firms are more vulnerable to hackers and get hit 300 times more often than other businesses, according to the Boston Consulting Group. The new service is being featured at the Mastercard Cybersecurity Summit in Croatia from Sept.

Boston 177

Boston Security System Cards 177

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. The approximate value of Fiserv’s stock-based acquisition deal for First Data was $22 billion. In addition, First Data CEO Frank Bisignano was set to be president and COO.

Innovation 126

Innovation Retail Mobile Massachusetts 126

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

At least, that’s what leading psychologists say the data shows. There’s data on that, too. It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. More fundamental is that most resolutions require that people break old habits – and form new ones.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. Online U.S. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Fraud Strategy Community Bank New York City 160

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2 23-25, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

Retail 101

Retail Boston Study Branding 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon said in its announcement that Sidewalk will extend the low-bandwidth working range of such devices, with bandwidth sharing across neighbors representing a “network of networks” that will help devices stay online. The company has said the network enhancement is available at no charge.

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Boston Community Software National 210

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

That “team of geeks” would be the folks at Adore Me , the disruptive eCommerce lingerie startup founded by a Harvard Business School student in 2011 after he couldn’t find his girlfriend any affordable lingerie online for their anniversary. By simply switching one model for another, Adore Me’s data team discovered that it could triple sales.

Data 100

Data Retail Industry Boston 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics , said the new hub will speed-up innovation and will be a “world-class facility, where our teams can design, build, program, and ship our robots, all under the same roof.”. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

Google 139

Google Payments Apple cryptocurrency 139

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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Maine Boston Branding Retail 199

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

In an interview with PYMNTS, CEO and Founder of Reviver Auto Neville Boston said that for the firm, which traces its genesis to 2009, the “initial thought process was simplifying the registration process. Boston noted that, with the traditional and entrenched methods, “your registration is sent out to an address.” It’s onerous.

Boston 128

Boston California Michigan Georgia 128

PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

. “IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Prior to joining Sun in 1987, he held senior management positions at Apollo Computer and Data General.

Boston 100

Boston Leadership Software Online 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Layer3 is betting big on basic and premium channel bundles, going against major players AT&T, HBO and CBS and others that have embraced online streaming via desktop and mobile apps to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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Washington Colorado Illinois Boston 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Online shopping is on a tear, and marketplaces are reaping the rewards. billion — online payments were completed in the U.S. in 2016, the most recent data available. In the post, Shopify wrote, “by accepting Venmo directly in your online store, users can complete their purchase in just a few clicks. And 79 percent of U.S.

Retail 131

Retail Payments Apple Online 131

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong. It seemed like a no-brainer: A consumer finds and pays for something online and picks it up at the store faster than they could have it delivered. Like you, I suspect, I’ve attempted to use the buy online, pick up in-store option on many occasions over the last couple of years.

Retail 172

Retail Online Study Meeting 172

PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

True Fit , the Boston-based startup that helps connect customers with shoes and apparel that fits them really, really well, recently announced a $25 million investment from Intel Capital that it will use to expand its business, according to a report from TechCrunch. 2015 that it used for expansion.

Boston 100

Boston Branding Retail Video 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

Retail 101

Retail Payments Boston Innovation 101

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). But then, we had a feeling that something like this might be about to happen in a world suddenly able to be online and on the go at all times – it’s why we were founded in 2009. That is no longer the case today.).

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). The Available Data. The data is out there, said the executive, with unprecedented access to drive patterns, the number of fill-ups that a consumer conducts in a given period of time and other buying behaviors. Picture this. It’s snowing.

Millennials 109

Millennials Boston Retail Mobile 109

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The Power of Persistence.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. It’s that last point though — one now central to the current Facebook data debate — that I find most unsettling.

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. It is limiting to define these businesses as just online, their capacity to craft a digital experience in line with the expectations of the younger generations is unmatched by traditional financial services players.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

I’m being simplistic for brevity, but the data suggests that most commerce will remain tied to the store experience – at least in part – for the foreseeable future. We’ll present the award on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston. Digital is not equally important across segments.

Retail 100

Retail Survey Boston Trends 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Located in suburbs of Boston in the three cardinal directions that don’t lead to the Atlantic, the workspaces-within-a-store will range between 2,500 and 3,500 square feet and will feature dedicated areas for quiet and communication-heavy work. Using Data To Stop Data Breaches. eBay’s Virtual Future.

Retail 100

Retail Las Vegas Millennials Conference 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Innovators — particularly payments innovators — love this particular bon mot and spend a lot of time trying to build that new payments mousetrap, in the hopes that the world will beat a path to its door. If you can do it better than what’s out there — the whole world can be your market. So what will the pair-up mean?

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Innovation Boston 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Facebook uses that data to better serve targeted ads. But wait a second.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

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.

Analytics 150

Analytics Survey Course Fintech 150

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. offers a platform for hosting online gaming tournaments. eSports startups are transforming the way games are created, data is collected, and content is shared. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Disclosed Funding: $16M.

California 49

California San Francisco Video Oakland 49

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

For a startup that’s done some pretty heavy lifting to successfully recruit merchants to join an innovative new eCommerce platform, being front page news lauding its accomplishments is always great news. And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. .

Comparison 100

Comparison Retail Boston Online 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The Index is based on two key components: whether a merchant adds value through a mobile app or website, and how consistent online and in-store experiences are for consumers. To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store.

Virginia 102

Virginia Resources Seattle Mobile 102

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom. The consumer with a range of bank and other financial accounts spanning several firms can have all that data collected at a single point of access.

Fintech 285

Fintech Data Regulation Innovation 285

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays.

Retail 64

Retail Los Angeles Strategy Community 64

CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Below, we used CB Insights data to identify 10 early-stage neurotech companies working across brain-machine interfaces, neuroprosthetics, and neurostimulatory devices. Kernel is an early-stage brain-machine interface company formed by Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree and the OS Fund. brainco inc.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Training Capital Trends 78