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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Said Allaire of the bid to get digital currencies more front and center: “Regulators are getting their arms around them … the digital asset market is now moving, more and more, into the mainstream of finance, FinTech payments and banking world.”. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

In investment news, Boston-based Flipside Crypto notched $3.4 The company plans to use the funding to develop tools and algorithms that scan the online crypto market and serve as the basis of its investment recommendations. CME Group is in discussions to purchase Britain’s NEX Group for $5.4 In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. The company, however, still has traditional focus groups with top influencers and fans. The beauty brand has also launched pop-up shops in cities like Miami, Austin, London, and Boston.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As SMBs seek opportunities to expand their operations, and reach new customers and markets, they will need the right spend and workforce tools to ensure funds are spent appropriately. This demand is driving the global expense management software market to reach $6.6 billion in value by 2025. million nonprofits in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

On March 24, on what would have usually been a busy day at the start of spring, the state ordered all nonessential retail shops on the green to shut down, as the pandemic crept its way north from New York City and south from Boston. One of the topics they’re more than willing to discuss is marketing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Perhaps the most important thing for retail executives to understand outside of the “early days” perspective is that AI is going to morph from an engineering-only property to marketing and from a big-scale retailers to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Maybe the future of AI and retail is shared between algorithms and humans.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to McKinsey , if you take the approximate value of all the sleep swag on the market as of 2018 –think luxury pajamas , high-end bed linens , cuddling robots , DTC mattresses and odd gadgets – it generates somewhere between $30 billion and $45 billion annually in revenue worldwide. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At the same time, the market caps of the top 20 retailers have lost more than $230 billion over the last two years, and mall operators are sucking wind as overstocked anchor stores shutter underperforming locations, which delivers a death knell for the stores that depend on anchor store foot traffic to lure customers in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Avail, along with its companion in the space, Cozy, are part of a growing group of online platforms looking to upend the rental process.

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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. The hackathon began at 8 p.m. The Challenge.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

2022 will be a big year as we move from development to pilot testing and begin to engage more with financial institutions in active planning,” says Nick Stanescu, senior vice president, FedNow business executive, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “We Go-to-market preparations. payment system.”. The pilot experience.

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JULY 19, 2018

.” And while she first encountered the problem of middling to low-quality kids’ clothing in the hospital, Royer quickly realized it was more or less an epidemic issue in the market for baby clothes in general. A Boston location is set to open soon. “We as a team hand gift-wrapped every item, putting personal notes in.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. An ATM or branch locator is another standard mobile function. Check ordering.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. An ATM or branch locator is another standard mobile function. Check ordering.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava Group. Cava Group (formerly Cavamezze Grill), is the company behind the fast, casual Cava Grill restaurants and a fast-growing prepared foods wholesale business. Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores.

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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. Many of those are payment apps used by consumers online, but not in brick-and-mortar stores without access to Apple’s NFC chip.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

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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. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5

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MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 eps for the Q1 2017 quarter. million, up from $41.2

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Features such as end-to-end online account opening and simple, secure ID verification tell customers “we see you, and we value your time.”

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space. Bar Tech — Companies in this category bring big data and online features to bars and restaurants. DISRUPTING THE HAPPY HOUR MARKET MAP COMPANIES. BPI France, Credit Agricole, InVivo Group. Please click to enlarge.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. The two youngest age groups show 60 percent and 50 percent adoption rates among smartphone users.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie. About the Index.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Features such as end-to-end online account opening and simple, secure ID verification tell customers “we see you, and we value your time.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

According to Andrea Boetti, vice president of global business development at Fortumo, although Asia has the highest growth in online content consumption, digital merchants often have difficulty collecting payments because many consumers do not have a credit card. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. In 2018, the company has agreed to close at least 26 UK-based warehouse-size stores and focus on higher-performing stores and online commerce. The company, renamed to Gymboree Group Inc., Date: September 2017.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2015.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In this diverse group, the profitability challenges include price sensitivity in general and an aversion to fees overall. The key is to understand the businesses’ needs in order to upsell and cross-sell effectively through targeted marketing and promotions. However, revenue is just one part of the equation.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If similar face-recognition algorithms were developed and tested with broader data sets, “disguised face identification” could make protesters easier targets for online vigilantes. The State of Artificial Intelligence.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

“In this untapped market, Kreditech has already built and impressive trajectory – with yet a huge potential to tap into,” he said. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

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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. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C.,

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PopularBank

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We gathered financials, market data, figured out the workflow of the product and the areas of improvement. The program provided plenty of guidance, but also gave us the opportunity to work and lead within a group and as an individual. . The product itself lagged in the market in terms of functionality and its reward structure.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Co-founder James Bello initially worked at the headquarters of a major retail chain, and then moved to Boston to serve in their innovation group. Combining that knowledge with Bello’s retail experience, they were able to get the product to market after completing the recipes and packaging. . The Market.

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