William Mills

AUGUST 17, 2016

Between September and October, we’ll see a host of new companies, ideas and innovation, and we’ll hear from the “experts” on those issues we need to pay attention to in 2017. Here is a list of events we will attend this year: Finovate Fall 2016. The MBA Annual conference is October 23-26 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As other PYMNTS research confirms, consumers are set to spend $23 billion buying mobile tickets for sports and gaming events by 2023. These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. However, for one of the prime spots during the most watched television event of the year, advertisers will be shelling out $5.25 We are mostly kidding about that. million for 30 seconds of airtime. Snack Time.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

At the same time, he saw innovation and growth in the Airbnb short-term rental space. Korbel noted it is increasingly becoming “more challenging” to bring items into events. Korbel noted there is a lot of attention and innovation around smart cities. Smart Cities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In fact, in general, a “more is more” attitude prevails – from the decorations to the lights to the proliferation of sales events, it seems the entire commerce ecosystem has adopted a “go big or go home” mantra for the last eight weeks of the decade. Thus far, it doesn’t seem like anyone is all that interested in going home.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

But, back to the earth-shaking events of nine years ago. 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. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

Grab CEO and Co-Founder Anthony Tan said during an event to announce the launch of Grab Ventures, “As Grab turns 6, we are experiencing a period of solid growth. Grab is ramping up innovation in-house to scale faster as the leading O2O mobile platform in Southeast Asia. The company aims to set up shop in 20,000 cars this year.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Institutions are acknowledging the valuable and complementary role Fintech can play in providing a modern, innovative customer experience. This is just a taste of what we’ll have in store at the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston. I look forward to seeing you all there.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

While drinking on the deck is a good deal of fun in the summer sun, going to the grocery or liquor store to keep a gathering well-lubricated is not quite as enjoyable, particularly if the drinks run out in the middle of the event. ” The work is not easy. ” And those are results, he noted, are already observable in practice. .”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. The two words marking the event itself are especially germane for the arena. Perhaps that’s where innovation may be fomenting at this very moment.

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Payments Innovation Data Course 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. The two words marking the event itself are especially germane for the arena. Perhaps that’s where innovation may be fomenting at this very moment.

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Payments Innovation Data Course 102

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. percent) and going to leisure events (44.5 Like payments terminals.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. It was a fun event, and provided some latitude to go off topic a little, including one of my favorite British comedy skits on Chip and PIN. The retail experience does. What can I say? I crack myself up. Here’s why….

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Celent Banking

MARCH 28, 2017

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation. See you in Boston!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. million users, up from 9.2

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Bonus points to the influencer who can find a way to combine all of those design elements into a single outfit – the team at PYMNTS just can’t wait to see that conglomeration on the streets of Boston this spring. In fact, the consumers’ awareness of the event is actually something of a modern phenomenon.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

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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. Undoubtedly, the highlight was attending Celent's Innovation and Insight Day on April 4th, where we celebrated achievements of the Model Bank and Model Insurer award winners. Consumer Banking Channel Innovation. Product Innovation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

When Godiva wanted to create a digital ad and shopping campaign around Valentine’s Day — probably the busiest shopping season for the chocolate maker — but didn’t have the time or resources to pull it off, it turned to a Boston-based company called Zmags and a tool called Creator. Most retailers struggle.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. Often, these bankers rose to the occasion by employing tech solutions or other innovative approaches. All the interesting, customer-facing innovation that we see—all the fun stuff in banking—is coming from technology,” observes Adkins.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Haley Fortier , operator of Boston wine bar haley.henry , told PYMNTS that much of the year was based on taking things the company already knew it could do well, and then finding ways to make them work via digital channels. Will it be enough to save every SMB pummeled by the pandemic this year?

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

It might mean a night out with friends at a food hall that doubles as an event space, or visiting a restaurant that has meals for you and your dog. In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London).

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

I’ve participated in every US event except one as well as Finovate Europe last year. There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year. HQ: Boston, MA. This is either my 21st or 22nd Finovate; I’m not sure. Website: projectfinance.io. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/11180527.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon. Both companies partner with landlords and charge a management fee. in Q1’18.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. An entirely remote workforce seems unlikely for most companies, with an office providing intangible benefits such as social connection, collaboration, and innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. Total disclosed funding: $185.3M.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. Checkout lines will soon become passé, and checkout will become a non-event.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. In addition to helping entrepreneurs, the retail concept also helped malls bring in different sorts of merchants. “The industry has not kept pace with modern retail.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. We have enjoyed helping you find great restaurants, access tough-to-book reservations and discover local chef events.”

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