PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There is no dearth of faster payments initiatives — and no certainty that there will be one faster payments scheme to rule them all. Along the way, not surprisingly, we’ll transition more fully to digital payments across modernized (and streamlined) rails, flowing domestically and eventually across borders.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Federal Reserve System has appointed its Payments Security Strategy leader, the agency announced Friday (Dec. Kenneth Montgomery, first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is taking up the position. Treasury and financial market, among other responsibilities.

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Security Kansas City Payments Boston 112

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. I look forward to seeing you there.

Innovation 100

Innovation Lending Boston Trends 100

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. I look forward to seeing you there.

Innovation 100

Innovation Lending Boston Trends 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Welcome to the PYMTS Weekender, where we recap the week’s biggest development in payments and commerce. This edition includes news about Facebook’s new payments push, Amazon’s new robotics plan and why Google is working more closely with financial institutions. Facebook Launches ‘Facebook Pay’ For Cross-App Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

But some things are different when it comes to intellectual gatherings — at least if the gathering is peopled with some of the best and brightest and insightful in payments. With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. Pot Shots in Payments. Connectivity and Collaboration.

Innovation 103

Innovation Lending Boston Security 103

Celent Banking

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the next instalment of our Model Banking preview blogs, and it’ll come as no surprise that I will focus on Payments. It’s also somewhat frustrating too at times – payments, covering so much territory, often ends up with the tricky task of comparing two very different projects, and trying to decide which is best.

Case Study 100

Case Study Payments Innovation Boston 100

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. That’s because every NFL season promises to bring advances in payments. Biometric Plays.

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Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

This particular article is focused on innovations in small business and corporate banking: two critical market segments for financial institutions as they seek revenue growth and relevance in the evolving digital B2B marketplace. Legacy Transformation / IT Platform Innovations. Emerging Innovation. Operations and Risk.

Innovation 114

Innovation Boston Technology Meeting 114

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

Halfway through the year, the company began winding down the number of cities in which it operated, shutting down in major markets like Boston, Chicago and New York City. Early in 2019, the head of Maven left her post. At its peak, Maven was available in 17 cities across the U.S. as an alternative to companies like Zipcar and Car2go.

New York City 140

New York City Boston Chicago Washington 140

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

They aim to help shoppers move seamlessly from browsing a merchant’s website to perusing the aisles of brick-and-mortar stores through shared carts and other digital payment experiences. The projected value of the global POS software market by 2024 is said to be $30.9

Innovation 126

Innovation Retail Mobile Massachusetts 126

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.

Innovation 101

Innovation Mobile Michigan Ohio 101

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.

San Diego 130

San Diego Apple America Mobile 130

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

These days, it seems like you can hardly go a minute without hearing about the rise of 5G, the spread of facial recognition or how friction is being removed from all types of payment methods. I really don’t think it will upend our market,” he said. “If communities. Expensive Cities.

Payments 131

Payments Los Angeles San Francisco New York City 131

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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Case Study Boston Innovation Massachusetts 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. For this month’s Payments Powering Platforms Tracker feature story, PYMNTS caught up with Coon, as well as Gino Zahnd, CEO and co-founder of Cozy , to find out what is stalling rent payment innovation, and what Zillow’s entrance means for the industry.

Payments 100

Payments Online Millennials Boston 100

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. Payment-enabled, of course.

Retail 101

Retail Payments Boston Innovation 101

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

In an interview with PYMNTS, CEO and Founder of Reviver Auto Neville Boston said that for the firm, which traces its genesis to 2009, the “initial thought process was simplifying the registration process. Boston noted that, with the traditional and entrenched methods, “your registration is sent out to an address.” It’s onerous.

Boston 128

Boston California Michigan Georgia 128

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

At the same time, he saw innovation and growth in the Airbnb short-term rental space. Pricing and Target Market. Consumers pay for their storage by credit card, and the hosts get paid out every Friday through Stripe , which Korbel said “is our third-party payment processor.”. for the first time and is staying in an Airbnb.

New York City 132

New York City Washington Training Austin 132

Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S. Leaders reap multifaceted benefits from the technology tools they adopt.” - The Boston Consulting Group Some of the ways technology is specifically helping valuation firms grow include the following: - Providing flexibility.

Technology 170

Technology Boston Software Study 170

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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Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

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. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

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Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If you can do it better than what’s out there — the whole world can be your market. 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.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Innovation Boston 100

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. There are no payments, interest or obligation to repay the principal. Alleviating The Pressures Of The Present .

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Las Vegas Miami San Diego San Francisco 255

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.

Boston 124

Boston Regulation Innovation Study 124

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

But when it’s time for payment, the smooth sailing can sometimes get abruptly choppy. Traditionally, bike taxis accept only cash payments, which creates a significant barrier to entry for many potential customers. That’s why many pedicab companies and drivers are increasingly embracing mobile payment acceptance solutions.

Cards 100

Cards Payments Industry Mobile 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The payments industry is a fairly large pie, but the way things are currently set up is skewed to favor larger vendors and businesses — a $4 trillion industry in the U.S. million small businesses make up about 26 percent of the overall payments industry but are responsible for 79 percent of its total fees. Payments are complex.

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Meeting Los Angeles Payments Resources 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. “It’s not difficult to imagine removal of that arbitrary barrier.”.

Security 181

Security Fintech Boston Fraud 181

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 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year. “[Our

Data 100

Data Boston Community social media 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). All of those viewers present a massive commerce opportunity and a chance for payments to really shine.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). All of those viewers present a massive commerce opportunity and a chance for payments to really shine.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

To meet this rising demand, QSRs are tapping into ordering interfaces built into cars and reconstructing stores to make for smoother mobile pickup — along with other innovations. From Chipotle Mexican Grill to Square , QSRs and payment firms alike are enabling a world of ordering innovation.

Mobile 116

Mobile Jacksonville New York City New York 116

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment .

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

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.”. I am excited to launch this effort at Stifel, which embraces the entrepreneurial spirit, continuous innovation, and responsible financial management.”.

Lending 100

Lending United States Boston Capital 100

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.

Online 168

Online Indiana New York Nevada 168

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. Now is the time to develop a more coherent digital strategy to decide where to play and how to invest.”.

Boston 109

Boston Survey Digital Strategies Regional 109

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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