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.

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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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Or at least injecting some balance into the conversations to sharpen the debate.

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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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), profits among the world’s corporate banking institutions is significantly declining – but digitization could halt that trend. Online lenders and alternative players were a wake-up call to banks,” explained Glover.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. According to Mintel, one-third of online delivery users would even be willing to accept higher delivery fees if it meant receiving their food faster. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel. For example, a new report from consulting firm Boston Retail Partners states 85% of retailers say that ‘unified commerce’ is a top priority for the year ahead, and many merchants are well on their way. There’s certainly a lot going on.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

US consumers aged 18+ make an average of 70 payments per month, with debit cards accounting for 32% of those purchases, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Fed. Cash is the second most common payment method (27%), while credit cards fall in third place (23%). turning Digital p2p payments into debit cards.

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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. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Plus the 1% rewards. That’s new.

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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. Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 18, 2016

Online marketplace for real estate investing. Integrated payment processor. Millennial saving & investing app. Online consumer lending. Mobile payments platform. Mobile payments. Tags: Consumer, payments, interbank transfers, banking. Financial supply chain management. Latest round: $46 million.

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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.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the middle market (deals worth between $10M to $1B in value), private, online networks and SaaS tools are giving smaller company executives and brokers the ability to conduct M&A transactions on their own more quickly and far more affordably. Even some big companies are opting to go it alone when it comes to mergers & acquisitions.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Those numbers are sure to grow, as surveys suggest that millennials are more likely to avoid traditional 9-to-5 jobs in favor of being entrepreneurs. Revenue, while a challenge, is a part of the answer, especially for value-added services beyond payments and balance reporting. Let’s look at each of those areas separately.

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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. Before there was Google Pay , there were three earlier versions of Google payments, starting with Google Checkout in 2006. They all died.

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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.

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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.

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