PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. What would a discussion about payments, innovation, cybersecurity and all manner of commerce be without a few laughs?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. 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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Its entry into the market comes nearly three year after Tim Hortons first announced its interest in incorporating mobile order-ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Kenneth Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is taking up the position. The position means Montgomery will chair the Secure Payments Task Force, one of several task forces the Fed has formed to promote innovation and advancement in the industry.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Restaurants may want to reach more delivery customers by expanding into new markets, especially as the market for food delivery could grow to $17 billion by 2020. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. Target Market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

PYMNTS explores some of the predictions industry players laid out for the year head. Traditional banks have continued their sloth-like pace in FinTech adoption, added Galarza, which has led corporates to seek innovative services from non-bank players. “In The time for this radical shift is now,” Boston Consulting Group declared.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Before coming to McDonald’s, Brady worked at the Boston Consulting Group. The fast food brand’s other tech-leaning teams, including the marketing technology and global delivery departments, will merge under the digital customer engagement umbrella and work under Brady. billion in sales, per the report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The business will target early stage startups through mature growth companies, with a focus on the technology, healthcare, and life sciences industries. We view Venture Banking and Lending as an attractive loan and deposit growth vehicle, and we’re excited to be in the market with these new capabilities.”. Stifel Financial Corp.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. As if that’s not enough, McDonald’s — the granddaddy of the QSR industry, and which posted a better-than-average Q2 in terms of same-store sales both in the U.S. The old QSR is dead. Long live the new QSR.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Think stamped metal translated into bits and bytes, helping to transform a part of the auto industry that has been around for more than a hundred years: license plates. Boston noted that, with the traditional and entrenched methods, “your registration is sent out to an address.” There’s a road — literally — from analog to digital.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

At the same time, he saw innovation and growth in the Airbnb short-term rental space. Pricing and Target Market. The company’s target market, Korbel said, runs “the gamut.” Korbel noted there is a lot of attention and innovation around smart cities. It will serve the college student who is in Washington, D.C.,

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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. Money Laundering Epidemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

And this, Unison CEO Thomas Sponholtz told PYMNTS in a recent conversation has pretty much been in its terms of innovation in the world of homeownership financing since the mortgage was invented in 1192. ” Unison offers its services to both potential homebuyers and homeowners with equity in their properties.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Diners want such innovations, too, and are turning so sharply to mobile food orders that the global food delivery mobile app market could rise to $16.6 QSRs’ kiosk adoption is also expected to push the worldwide kiosk market well over $30 billion during the next few years. The work is critical, however.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Our team is dedicated to continuing 7-Eleven’s legacy of innovation with industry-leading digital solutions. From RBS to 7-Eleven, retail innovators are piloting cashierless technology with their employees to help make the shopping experience faster and more convenient for the general public. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

That’s why these industry giants make a point of giving the little guys a leg up whenever possible. Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. They lack background on solutions and management.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Our enhanced agreement with DraftKings provides innovative opportunities as we look to deliver a best-in-class fan experience,” Giants Chief Commercial Officer Pete Guelli said in a statement. DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers.

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PYMNTS

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

MARCH 17, 2017

For years, New York City has been at the epicenter of United States’ culture with the fashion and entertainment industries leading the way. With a big focus on technology in Silicon Valley and Boston, New York City slowly made its way to becoming a powerhouse tech player. Being in NYC means knowing your market.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

Whether it’s San Francisco, New York City, London or Hong Kong, each of these areas have become well-known for developing and implementing innovative ideas. This report purports that technology is the game changer when it comes to bridging the gap between the startup-heavy places, like Silicon Valley and Boston, and the rest of the world.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

Financial criminals are working hard, using technology and innovation to their advantage, to stay one step ahead of FinCEN and financial institutions. He further stated that we must be responsible with such innovation. FIs must understand the industry, the markets, and the risks. The 12 major U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. The mattress market alone is worth a whopping $15 billion. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. billion globally by 2020. But does it really work?

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. Initiatives reflect the growing acceptance among the industry that banks can’t be all things to all people. Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous. I look forward to seeing you all there.

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

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers. This market map includes private companies only and is not meant to be exhaustive of companies in the space. DISRUPTING THE HAPPY HOUR MARKET MAP COMPANIES.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As diehard baseball geeks pout about having to share TV time with another major sport, and most of the country goes into New England Patriot-hating mode, the digital payments and commerce industry gets pretty optimistic – and even excited. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

According to Gill Pratt, the chief executive officer of Toyota Research Institute, the automaker’s internationally renowned productions system can be turned toward overcoming the same sort of scale problems that plagued the early auto industry before the assembly line came into being. “My The market’s going to be there,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

percent it fell in 2017 according to IWSR, an industry tracker for the drinks market. . Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer. In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S. fell by just shy of 1 percent, more than the 0.8 percent loss in sales.

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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. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. and identified five or six influencer markets that we wanted to penetrate.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. MOEs like this are rare in the credit union industry, but we expect with continued demands for scale there will be more. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington. Credit Union Merger of the Year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That’s a figure Webster said she found hard to believe, but Xiao said that’s because she does most of her dining Boston — where phones’ prominence is a lot lower and digital channels are far more strongly developed. Xiao said the majority of U.S. He said Bensen AI’s experience in the sector is instructive.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. “We The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston.

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