PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More consumers mean more sales – and more sales means growth, expansion, jobs and prosperity for the business, its workforce and the local economy in which it operates. The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality. Social proof can also work in reverse. Saving Main Street.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a new report that suggests corporate bankers may be able to halt shrinking profits through digital transformation. According to the BCG’s “Corporate Banking Executive Survey,” “front-to-back digital transformations” are essential to halt this shrinkage.

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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.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. They could ask permission to assume control of their screen to install keylogger monitoring or other types of malware to obtain data critical for perpetrating a more ambitious crime down the road.

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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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Zander’s experience led to the successful reorganization of the company, as he oversaw the introduction of several new products and sharpened Motorola’s focus on innovation and operational efficiency. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. Baumgärtner also coauthored the report. “The only question is which banks will be among them.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Boston-based company Cybric is a relative newcomer on the cybersecurity scene, but it’s re-envisioning how developers test the security of their applications. “If If you look at the cybersecurity landscape, there are over 1,220 solutions and tools,” said Mike Kail, Chief Innovation Officer at Cybric.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And the depth and breadth of that consumer changeover has made itself seen in PYMNTS’ six months of consumer surveys , and in our latest round of data. In fact, as the data make clear, when “normal” returns, it will find consumers who have permanently shifted to digital channels. The Power of Persistence.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Reading the paper, you will see how new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, enhanced user experience (UXD), and data-driven analytics informed by regulatory expertise are enabling businesses around the world to redefine governance, risk and compliance across the organization. Empowering the first line of defense.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. Over the last nine years, it has been PYMNTS’ privilege to speak with some of the most innovative minds in payments and commerce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Data from Tracxn Technologies released this week found less than half the volume of venture capital going to B2B startups in between January and August of this year compared to the same period the year before. B2B eCommerce. Like Connected2Fiber, China’s Huimin is a startup with a clear industry focus: groceries.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. ECommerce was big business for Target in 2015.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

But despite the general interest in the area, the conversations around innovation and what’s next in technology isn’t always directed at women, or particularly tailored to their interests. We all want to know what ‘it’ is it in our technology, our clothes and our personal lives.”. And physical.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna said it plans to use the funds to expand its team, focus on sales and continue innovation efforts. Cybersecurity.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

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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. Unfortunately, the operative word in the quote is “better,” not “build.” So what will the pair-up mean?

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. It has also spurred other businesses to follow its lead, irrespective of whether Amazon is even a relevant player in the ecosystem in which it operates.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

PYMNTS recently caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., That’s why many pedicab companies and drivers are increasingly embracing mobile payment acceptance solutions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. We started with census data to estimate how much households in the U.S. Today, Walmart is the fourth largest pharmacy operator in the U.S.,

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Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store. We also offer a solution and process that this is frictionless to their day-to-day operations so our orders are seamless and no different than any other customer.” .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. According to Duncan, Favor fields inquiries surrounding both its own operations and mishaps that are the restaurants’ responsibilities.

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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.

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Fintech Data Regulation Innovation 285

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. Don’t Touch This. percent).

Cards 147

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fast food and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are much more about mass production than customization, no matter how many personalized options those operations offer hungry consumers. Third-party providers are looking to control the guest data to a certain extent,” he said. restaurant market. It kind of happens to all industries.”.

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Data Branding Boston Mobile 134

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. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. SWIFT insists that they, as the messaging system, weren’t breached, but rather someone(s) very, very clever and with an uncanny understanding of how the system operates got hold of bank credentials and access to the SWIFT network and directed money to all of the wrong places, including China.

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Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Given the still nascent state of consumer adoption of mobile payments technology, time and opportunities for growth and innovation in the mobile arena at the community bank level still exist, banking technology experts say. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Already this year, at least 30 organizations — including coffee chain Dunkin’ and cloud provider Rubrik — experienced major data breaches. These high-profile data breaches (among many others over the last few years) have put the general public on high alert, with talk of data protection becoming an increasing priority.

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Google Apple Security Data 76

Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Takeaway 2 Generative AI models emulate data put into them to generate apparently new content such as text, images, audio, or video. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience. GenAI is seeing varied use cases in banking.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction). Data Collective.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Increased expenses, supply chain inefficiencies, and the need to enhance operating results contributed to the perfume retailer’s bankruptcy, which was court-approved in October.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Treasury’s FinCEN and Federal Banking agencies issued a joint statement encouraging innovative industry approaches to combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other illicit financial threats. The financial industry has paid $321 billion in fines just through the end of last year, as estimated by Boston Consulting Group.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Race Data – @RaceDataSystems – [link]. Turn data into energized relationships. Race dashboard: Large data set to work with. Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. Diana Chin (HR & Operations).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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