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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

The team will be led by Lucy Brady, the former senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development. Before coming to McDonald’s, Brady worked at the Boston Consulting Group. They will meet with a newly formed advisory council made up of the company’s top executives at least once a quarter.

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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.”. The financial stakes are very high,” he continued.

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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.

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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. One of the local shops in Carder’s neighborhood was trying to come up with a strategy that would draw people to their business, which is half bakery and half pizza.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We know the customer buying and use of financial services is being fundamentally changed by fintech, but our long-term strategies to invest/partner/buy/compete are very much works in progress. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

As we enter budgeting season, the answers might be found in a mix of strategies. In 2022, things changed with whiplash speed, as the Fed hiked interest rates to quell inflation, the mortgage refinance market dried up and the effects of macro changes, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a talent shortage, began to be felt keenly.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Below, we outline three major retailers’ localization strategies — and where the trend is headed next. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C.,

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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. Jim Van Dyke, CEO of Javelin Strategy & Research in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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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. Jim Van Dyke, CEO of Javelin Strategy & Research in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Before BCG and McKinsey and Bain, most business people dismissed “strategy” as something for generals and political campaigns.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

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. The company has a digital-first strategy, and reports roughly a third of its business runs through its app. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group. sweetgreen.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Pictured (left to right): Kensho Head of Strategy and Business Development, Adam Broun, and CEO Daniel Nadler demonstrating Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London. Recently featured in a review of Boston-area startups , Kensho was named to OnFinance’s “50 Companies to Watch” roster in April.

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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.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Revolutionizing every aspect of sales and marketing in the process? So guess which aspect of the omni-channel strategy will gain more attention that others?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The self-interested business known as Amazon has created its shareholder value by putting the consumer experience at the center of its strategy. I found that even the early adopters of that strategy, like Target, have seen their market share plateau. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

It’s showing up in music and entertainment , education , healthcare , and marketing. But Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says generative AI serves a fundamentally different purpose than predictive AI, which is the powerful tool with which many financial institutions are already familiar.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In banking, collaboration — between the traditional players like banks and the tech savvy FinTechs bringing a slew of new apps to market — is key. there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Summary: Affordable footwear retailer Aerosoles struggled to compete in an tough apparel market as it looked to balance affordability and comfort with changing fashion trends, while competing with even cheaper fast fashion chains. Date: September 2017. Category/Product(s): Footwear. Date: March 2017. hancock fabrics. city sports.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Virtual reality – Where your can see your investment plan and strategy visually and interactive. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. What’s the market strategy? David Carr (Innovation Manager).

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Learn about active cyber defense strategies and what they mean for the future of enterprise cybersecurity. Its market cap seemed unaffected until July 2018, when Facebook lost around 20% of its value in one day off of news of slowing user growth. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This speaks more to an investment strategy (asset diversification, for example), we contend, than as a pivot toward using cryptos in the service of commerce. Stablecoins, he said, can be used as part of innovative payment solutions. There are indications that the banking world is increasingly getting its arms around crypto.

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NCR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has put forward a package of measures designed to ensure that banks are making the most of the latest technology and have to work hard to win and retain business. “Our reforms will increase innovation and competition in a sector whose performance is crucial for the UK economy.”

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

In this briefing, we dig into WeWork’s strategy, investments, and global expansion plan. Startups working on innovative office and residential real estate offerings have the potential to change the real estate industry. This market is four times that size. 15-min Flash briefing: WeWork Teardown.

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Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions. HQ: Boston, MA. Founded: August 2017.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). The sophisticated food hall: North 3rd Street Market (Brooklyn). table of contents.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The hires indicated a shift in strategy, with Project Titan reportedly deciding to prioritize the development of an autonomous driving system, while deprioritizing development of an electric vehicle. Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston.

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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. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes. The nine or 10 years that smartphones and apps have existed is a digital lifetime in developed markets like the U.S. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. and the U.K., Then, there’s Alexa.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. Then you work on strategy later, and that’s where we are.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! and the U.K. contemplate their own moves.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Their strategies will likely involve a combination of approaches to minimize risks for employees, which can be aided by the technologies and startups featured in this report. A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides.

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