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. Next-gen means an ecosystem of standardized GRC knowledge and tools all operating together.

Compliance 107

Compliance Technology User Experience Analytics 107

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. Over the last nine years, it has been PYMNTS’ privilege to speak with some of the most innovative minds in payments and commerce.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

PYMNTS recently caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Unlocking more pricing and payment options.

Cards 100

Cards Payments Industry Mobile 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Funding and investor information is as of 9/6/17. .

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The great thing about this service is payment processing can be provided by a processor in Boston to a merchant in Florida,” Taylor noted. HeroPay aims to be the platform or the tool that helps level the playing field for the little guys.”. We work with merchants across the nation. Payments are complex.

Meeting 100

Meeting Los Angeles Payments Resources 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna said it plans to use the funds to expand its team, focus on sales and continue innovation efforts. Cybersecurity.

US 116

US Capital California San Francisco 116

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.

Conference 100

Conference Community Bank Boston Technology 100

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

Fintech 147

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 147

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2020

Robots – specifically the Boston Dynamics robotic dog, Spot – have a future as frontline medical responders, it seems. These days, Spot, now modified with a tablet for a “face,” can be found roaming the halls of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The field test comes early in Spot’s life.

Boston 239

Boston Las Vegas Tools Examples 239

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. HQ: Boston, MA. In today’s world there is uncertainty around many things, your finances don’t have to be one of them. Key Executives.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Using the CB Insights Trends tool, we can see the spike in media discussion of an impending “retail apocalypse.” In 2017 to date, we have seen 21 bankruptcies.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

Yet 30% of financial services leaders ban the use of generative AI tools within their companies, according to a recent survey by American Banker publisher Arizent. They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience.

Examples 195

Examples Fraud Resources Risk Management 195

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

In this week’s examination of payment rail innovation, PYMNTS explores the latest efforts to tackle B2B payments pain points. The companies said their solution aims to enhance the visibility and efficiency of B2B transactions, which have been largely left behind despite accelerating FinTech and payments innovation.

Payments 130

Payments Fraud Community Boston 130

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fast food and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are much more about mass production than customization, no matter how many personalized options those operations offer hungry consumers. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. restaurant market. Granular View.

Data 134

Data Branding Boston Mobile 134

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

The restaurant industry has seen its share of futuristic innovations and bots, particularly in the fast-casual and quick service restaurant (QSR) spaces. Take Flippy, the burger-flipping robot created by Miso Robotics and deployed at select CaliBurger restaurants, which could, one day, fully automate kitchen operations for the QSR.

Boston 109

Boston Operations Innovation Company 109

CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

They’re also bullish on how Element AI’s cooperative platform and “non-predatory” approach to AI talent (in which academic researchers are paid like private employees) will accelerate AI innovation. Other early-stage AI startups operating in the AI-for-business niche include Saba Software and DataFox. Julia Computing.

Security 34

Security Capital Software Data 34

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. These SMBs have spent the year forcibly pursuing their own survival and getting digital and inventive about how they’ve done it.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. As Azure’s enterprise use grows, and chips away at Amazon’s market share, it becomes even more essential for the company to invest in innovation and AI to defend against an estimated 7T cyber threats each day. Confirm.io Conclusion.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). This looks like a polling tool, to get quick client feedback, mostly about current events. The fact that this is an automated tool means it lacks authenticity. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). David Carr (Innovation Manager). Virtual reality?

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

In a survey conducted by Saxo ahead of the event, a third of businesses said they plan to move operations out of the U.K., Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, top bankers acknowledged that it was time for some operations to exit from the U.K. and half said they plan to switch financial partners, following Brexit.

Payments 104

Payments Survey Boston Operations 104

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. State of Innovation Report. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

San Francisco 77

San Francisco Company US California 77

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.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. Conference rooms: remote collaboration tools. On-the-go HR: employee wellness, communication, and engagement tools. Desk space: social distancing sensors. Conclusion.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

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. “We’re in a test-and-learn phase as we consider what other investment routes we should explore.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Germany’s LeanIX offers businesses an Enterprise Architecture Management Software-as-a-Service solution that helps businesses optimize their digital tools and enhance IT to bring data-driven insights. Another B2B startup operating in the data analytics space is Looker, which landed this week’s largest funding round.

Analytics 176

Analytics Data Capital Software 176

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

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.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Many companies offer game optimization tools. Having an independent platform to do this is no longer necessary.”

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112