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MAY 13, 2020

Atul Gawande will resign as Haven’s CEO to serve as chairman of its board of directors, the Boston-based organization announced on Wednesday (May 13). The founders pledged to focus on how to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction by using data analysis and said they were committed to being a part of the solution.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why innovations that introduce more intelligence into the digital versions of those accounts that require little to no change of the consumer are highly valued by consumers, merchants and issuers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

With the opening of the Amazon Go grocery store and bookstore in Seattle, Amazon is breathing innovation into the stodgy brick-and-mortar experience. It seems like Amazon is at the forefront of innovative retail experiences with its various physical retail space expansions. More retailers are likely moving in a similar direction.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2020

The newest order includes: Boston Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami New York City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle. This training should specifically include how to identify red flags at loan origination. FinCEN Strengthens Commitment to Digital Innovation. Learn more. Learn More.

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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. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Its abundance in payments and commerce is what inspires innovators to challenge a friction-filled status quo and create something new. But none rose to the level of the seriously friction-filled experiences that might motivate a would-be innovator to quit her day job and give up her life to solve for it.

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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. This conference series is focused exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. AFT Fall Summit. Money 20/20.

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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. Like every other small business on Main Streets everywhere, she figured out how to make lemonade out of lemons – a particularly challenging feat, since haircuts are one of the personal services impossible to replace in a digital world.

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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. Now is the time to develop a more coherent digital strategy to decide where to play and how to invest.”. The financial stakes are very high,” he continued.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Here, a fraudster obtains a legitimate user’s details to take over their online accounts, enabling the theft of money or a credit card, according to Marianne Crowe, vice president in the Secure Payments Innovation and Research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Education as an anti-fraud tool.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

The Super Bowl may be a memory, but the somewhat improbable victory of the New England Patriots was still fresh in the minds of many at snow-jammed Boston during Innovation Project 2017. Innovators and entrepreneurs — they live and die by their ideas,” said Bisignano. And they have some meaning in the town,” Bisignano continued.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork. He was an essential part of a program that taught Main Street businesses about technology platforms and how to onboard them quickly and efficiently.

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Said simply, New Balance is rethinking athletic footwear retail — how to sells shoes, where to sell shoes and how to carry on its relationship with its customers across channels — and in between sneaker replacements.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Globally, the company has more than 500 employees spread between Leipzig; Boston; Henderson, Nev.; million items last year. “[Our Greensburg, Penn.;

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APRIL 29, 2017

Ideas for how to concretely do that, other than getting a job at Amazon, are few and far between. Some of it works; disruptive innovation depends on thinking a little bit differently. So in some sense, it is not surprising that the team at Boston Dynamics chose a dog to be their robotic delivery beast.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We We consider ourselves the most innovative custom sofa retailer in the country and we are using this success to expand and redefine other categories,” Royers said. “We

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We We consider ourselves the most innovative custom sofa retailer in the country and we are using this success to expand and redefine other categories in the home as well,” Royers said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

The good news is we’ve also learned how to overcome the challenges and, because of our experience, Walmart is uniquely positioned to help facilitate broad engagement in accelerating the expansion of U.S. sourcing and manufacturing , in the press release. manufacturing.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

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JUNE 24, 2016

First launched in March on a trial basis in Chicago, as of Thursday (June 23), Express Drive is also up and running in Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D.C. Many of the operational details of where the cars are stored, how are they maintained, how are they paid for — all of that is very applicable in the autonomous world,” Rust said.

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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.”.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

location, it included three kitchens, a 1,600-square-foot refrigerator and freezer as well as a host of other features — “all things that are part and parcel to our understanding of some the challenges of trying to figure out how to run a remote facility for a restaurant,” Jim Collins, CEO of Kitchen United, told PYMNTS.com. Delivery Focus.

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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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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to the Boston Consulting Group , there have been more than $321 billion in regulatory compliance penalties levied globally since the financial crisis of 2007- 2008. Beyond ensuring compliance, executives are often preoccupied with the substantial organizational and business challenges in developing and implementing effective GRC.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals. When I told him I was already a Prime member, he said, “awesome,” and handed me two pieces of paper.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I was on a flight from Boston and decided it was time to buy a new pair of shoes from the retailer where I usually shop. But so many of the times I’ve explored the option, a same-day pick up has not been available, nor has there been any option faster than free two-day shipping. Until last week.

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William Mills

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This year’s HubSpot Inbound conference was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center September 25-28. The conference featured four fun-packed days of keynotes, innovative talks, educational breakout sessions, hands-on lessons and tons of networking. Customer Hub.

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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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JUNE 10, 2020

Northeastern cities like New York and Boston with an incredible and nearly unexpected force, a bit like a tsunami that surged and almost overnight washed away the entire cultural practice of eating out. And, he noted, the challenges only go on from there, as this week they can reopen their Boston-based Sip Wine Bar for outside seating.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. He seemed confused at first — obviously no one had ever tried to pay him this way — but I explained how it would work. The shop came highly recommended for the quality of his work and high service levels.

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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. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things.

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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. It’s a number that also includes 18 percent of all SNAP food stamp redemptions, with Walmart reportedly as the largest individual recipient of that program.

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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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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

“With COVID, bankers had to say, ‘How am I going to serve a customer who can’t come into a branch?’” Often, these bankers rose to the occasion by employing tech solutions or other innovative approaches. You don’t go to school to learn how to become head of deposit operations. Use technology to drive down costs. Connors, Jr.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

On a wider stage, of course, a wide swath of central banks have been studying how to create and issue their own versions of digital currencies. Stablecoins, he said, can be used as part of innovative payment solutions. We’re still a ways out from making the leap from concept to reality, at least on these shores.

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