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. The trend is even worse among Western European FIs, with shrinking profits prevalent among 57 percent of institutions in this region, reports said.

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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 .

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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). And then there’s Tom Brady.

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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). And then there’s Tom Brady.

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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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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

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.

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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. An ATM or branch locator is another standard mobile function. Check ordering.

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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. An ATM or branch locator is another standard mobile function. Check ordering.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks. Has to be M-O-E. Bank Merger of the Year. That’s almost impossible to select.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. We are tech agnostic,” Winrich said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

I helped to start the Charlotte Entrepreneurs Organization’s (EO) chapter in 1998 to help foster dialogue in the Queen City around innovation and opportunities. Charlotte is fortunate to also have a significant cost-of-living advantage over other regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Mike Butler of Radius, although a lifelong banker, came from outside of the region and implemented a business model and cultural change at his bank with new management and a "fast fail" innovation culture. It is not lost on me that their CEO is also from outside of the industry and relatively new to the bank. Mike is from Cleveland.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). But, he noted, baseball – and commerce communities that spring up regionally around game night – is a unique setting, and one where cooperation is uniquely rewarded. John asked. That will take time to develop, he pointed out, as coalition models are hard to do.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. Amazon’s Prime Day.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Often, these bankers rose to the occasion by employing tech solutions or other innovative approaches. Recruiting is easier in some regions than others. Connors notes that in Fitchburg, 40 miles west of Boston, he’s competing against Fidelity Investments and MFS on the financial services side, as well as a thriving high-tech corridor.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Bonus points to the influencer who can find a way to combine all of those design elements into a single outfit – the team at PYMNTS just can’t wait to see that conglomeration on the streets of Boston this spring. There was even the usual wash of celebrity appearances and stunt casting.

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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

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NCR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

“Our reforms will increase innovation and competition in a sector whose performance is crucial for the UK economy.” Martin has held a number of senior regional management roles in European retail banking. Image Credit: iStock/Franck-Boston. ” Staying competitive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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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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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). In Boston, Oleana founder Ana Sortun opened the lunch and takeout venue Sofra.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2016

“Singapore … is benefitting from a supportive regulatory framework and extremely high digital capacity, which means there is a potential for her to become the regional hub for Asia-Pacific and beyond,” said Joseph Alfred, Head of Policy & Technical, ACCA Singapore. and Europe.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Given the abundance of lumber in Canada, timber activity has been largely concentrated in the region, but increasingly it is gaining traction in the US.

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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. State of Innovation Report. It was a genuinely innovative insight into allocating capital, dressed up as a 2×2.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? Now, several innovative new methods for storing solar energy are gaining traction, from lithium-ion batteries to substances that have high heat-holding capacities, like molten salt. Free: What’s the latest in renewable energy? a brewing MATERIALS issue.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

company secured the funding from Underscore VC, Accomplice, Boston Seed Capital, Imagination Capital and Project 11 Ventures. The company said in a press release it will use the funding to focus on product development and innovation, and to add staff as it links corporate buyers with a digital platform to source products and place orders.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. The spirit of that idea lives on today, as Fourpost is bringing what it calls “studio shops and eateries” to the Mall of America and the West Edmonton Mall.

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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. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Product: Besomebody.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

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