PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Like payments terminals. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

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.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Sure, one could sit back in an armchair and chalk it all up to irascible millennials, but Staples is taking the proactive approach and making sure it can provide the right office supplies, however — and wherever — its consumers want them. “People are everywhere,” Jacobson said. “People are living in all different places.

Retail 100

Retail Las Vegas Millennials Conference 100

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Fees follow.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Giving consumers a safe and trusted online payments experience means being comfortable finding and then following the paths not typically taken to uncover potential vulnerabilities – and then defending those decisions to team members and management. Or at least injecting some balance into the conversations to sharpen the debate.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime for a Payments Switch.

Retail 156

Retail Branding Millennials Online 156

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

This demand for timeliness and simplicity is evidenced by the demographics with which third-party delivery services are being most enthusiastically embraced: millennials, parents with children under 18, and city dwellers. When you order your first Favor, you’ll enter the payment information, which we store securely.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

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. And here’s one more nugget of particular interest to the folks in banking: The issue of payment and data security remains a thorn in the side of many retailers. Social channels?

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Boston Industry 40

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. They help you focus and prioritize Accounts Receivable, based on payment histories and risk. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. Plus the 1% rewards.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

What the data shows is that 80 percent of millennials who characterize themselves as happily employed are open to learning about new opportunities, as long as they’re provided by a trusted relationship. In our very first year, we had over 10,000 referrals in the Boston market alone. In fact, many are happily employed.

Boston 100

Boston US Marketing Industry 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. They all died.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Animal metaphors aside, 2019 is a year that should inspire excitement, along with great anticipation, across the expansive payments and commerce ecosystem: It’s the bridge year between the decades of the ‘10s and the ‘20s. Leave Mobile Payments, Embrace Ambient Commerce. That makes it the most important year of the last decade.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born. That’s what teenagers did 34 years ago for fun.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170