PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Just last week, the company announced the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service that provides customers with broadened delivery and/or pickup options, enabling them to order via Instacart and pick up the groceries at retailers. At that time, the company had a valuation of $4.35

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2016

” First off, it pays to note that, despite the national pastime that is complaining about airports and air travel, average domestic fares are lower today than they have been in more than half a decade. Spirit takes a hit in the complaint category because people don’t really know much about them,” Headley told The Boston Globe.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In Berlin, where last week saw a two-day meeting of financial officials from Europe, central bankers discussed digital payments and the confines of digital, national currencies. At a high level, officials said that the European Central Bank should be the only one that should issue digital currencies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” Founded in 2012, Boston-based DraftKings offers daily fantasy sports contests across 11 professional sports and in eight countries, including the U.S., and Australia. In New Jersey and Mississippi, DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail allows players to bet for major U.S.

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Abrigo

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the National Association of Realtors, there were more than 106,000 real estate brokerage firms in the United States. Contact us AML changes FinCEN actions in the real estate sector Things have started to change, albeit slowly. Including rental and leasing licensees, as of 2021, the industry comprises approximately 16.7%

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

FBI Director James Comey discussed cybersecurity issues at a Boston College cybersecurity conference this week, highlighting that Americans should let go of their expectations of “absolute privacy.”. In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Expanding our corporate catering product with Zesty enables us to offer our restaurant partners another way to boost sales through higher-margin, large-format catering orders,” Gokul Rajaram, Caviar lead at Square, said in the announcement. The app had operations in Boston, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

It’s that’s time of year again – football season is upon us. As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

7) the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service. “In our house, sometimes the ritual of going to the grocery store is inspiring and helps us meal plan for the week. Other times, we’re busy and can’t get to the store, so delivery makes life easier for us.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

That’s what PYMNTS surveys tell us, anyway. As it turns out, we as a nation have simply reached our limits with our own cooking. The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. We just started a month or two ago, and we’re now getting comments that will allow us to make an assessment.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. It was chosen, according to Dr. Troyen A. But does it really work?

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FICO

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

So, while the average FICO® Score is increasing over time at the national level, what about at the state or city level? While 31 states (and the District of Columbia) have an average score higher than the national average of 706, we generally see that the Midwest and New England states have the highest average FICO® Scores.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. I think, as a nation, we will need lots of help managing our money. Probably not.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We As of today, Freeletics claims it has over 31 million users in 160 nations around the world, and that it is Europe’s most used fitness and personal coaching app.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Currently offered in a session subscription payment method, Handstand is available in Los Angeles and Orange County; the plan is to roll it out to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. PYMNTS: Give us the background on Handstand. We’re launching New York and Boston soon. Also, the quality of our trainers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. Luckily, for those of us who didn’t snag a ticket, the concession stand is also known as the kitchen, and snacks can be kept flowing to the central watching area. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth!

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

Blanco discussed the organization’s active approach toward addressing the top financial threats to our financial system, our national security, and our communities and families. According to Director Blanco, this is “incredibly valuable information that helps keep us all safe.” Contact us. Our Advisory Services team can help.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Think of us as kind of like a LendingTree for payments processing, kind of like a mini-RFP for the payments sector.”. We work with merchants across the nation. The great thing about this service is payment processing can be provided by a processor in Boston to a merchant in Florida,” Taylor noted. Payments are complex.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2018

The DoorDash delivery addition will include 300 IHOP restaurants across the nation – a much bigger change for the chain than the temporary embracing of a newish name – and the addition of burgers to the menu. The concept for the promotion was pretty simple, and on the surface did not look like a recipe of disaster at malls across the nation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. While Kitchen United hasn’t nailed down which markets it might want to enter, it is having conversations with national restaurant partners who will help the company choose new cities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And experts are warning that given the spike in cases nationwide, we should expect to see that national death toll to double over the next 10 days to reach 4,000 daily. According to a recent pilot study at a pediatric hematology clinic at Boston Medical Center, ridesharing services reduced the clinic's no-show rate by 8.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

And while Peloton is one well documented case of delays, tales of sold-out yoga mats, free weights, resistance bands, exercise balls and all make and manner of home fitness equipment have abounded in the national news. Others merely require a physical space to jump up and down inside. Digital Fitness Firms Thriving.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. With the addition of those national brands, Apple said that 74 of the leading 100 merchants in the U.S. Starbucks is bringing additional cities to its delivery network through a partnership with Uber Eats. now support Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“Of all the retailers, Tradesy is the one that has the most data, has had the closest look at what we’re doing, and they’re now expanding to a longer-term relationship with us.”. In 2017, Sobie said Happy Returns is working to grow the national footprint of its Return Bars.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2018

After all, here in Boston, our local Irish population is eight times the size of the motherland’s, and Americans of every ethnic background get their green on one day a year. People drink champagne on New Year’s, fine wine on Christmas and festive mixed drinks on the 4th, all of which run up the national bar tab. You say, ‘Ooo!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to forecasts from the National Restaurant Association, 100,000 restaurants will close this year, doubling the 50,000 closures that typically happen in an average year. There were so many outlets like Caviar and DoorDash that you could order from – but they take 30 percent of the profit, so it didn't make sense for us.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

And that is a pretty nice win for Apple Pay: entrance into a big, national retailer that everyone with a car is likely to interact with, at least at some point, at one of its 10,000 or so locations that its competitors don’t get by default. “I live in Houston, Texas, so it’s blazing hot in the summertime,” Russell said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. But like those spiky barriers remind us at the rental agencies themselves, the only way to go is … forward.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO billion chicken wings Americans are expected to eat this weekend according to the (honest to goodness) National Chicken Council. Winner: Pizza

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. That’s likely why in PYMNTS’ national study of 14,000 consumers, more than half (58.6 This latest study of a national sample of U.S. population.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In each study, the researchers used proxy data based on matching addresses or zip codes to U.S. Treating them all as fungible, however, seems to us to be an unfounded starting point for these analyses. Census data to determine race, ethnicity and socioeconomic demographics.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim! You tell us. Chuck Snyder, chief executive of National Cooperative Bank (NCB). Bank Merger of the Year. 82% to over 2.3%

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 10, 2015

By this time, we have all had enough of the cold, the polar vortex, the snow, the freezing rain, the ice, and the potholes that are left on our roadways to harass and frustrate us. At least we are not in Boston. The US has led the world in energy and oil production from its shale and fracking operations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Lucky for all of us, Berra made it in baseball – though in this case, as in many others, he may have been a bit factually off the mark. Lucky for all of us, Berra made it in baseball – though in this case, as in many others, he may have been a bit factually off the mark.

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