PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Part of the enthusiasm from investors comes as use cases have proliferated. But he added that eventual use cases could include stimulus payments and all manner of other transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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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.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

From gaming to healthcare to pizza delivery, US-based startups which reached unicorn status in 2018 represent a diverse range of industries. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. FREE DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE LIST of 155+ US unicorns. Plaid Technologies.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

where the Association For Financial Professionals – a leading society for treasury and finance professionals in the US - held its annual conference. It’s too early to tell, as they are still the dominant tool in use in treasury departments. I just arrived home from Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

It’s that’s time of year again – football season is upon us. CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology. But it’s not just payments where the NFL and other sports can shine when it comes to digital and mobile technologies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a concept Rob Orgel, now the new president and chief operating officer at Flywire , told Karen Webster was foundational to his decade-long career at Apple — where he was part of the leadership team that developed, rolled out and grew the Apple Pay business. Flywire announced his appointment Tuesday (Nov. 5) to the newly created position.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

According to Jonathan Donovan, chief product officer at mobile ticketing and payment technology provider Masabi , one only needs to fish out a cell phone to put these troubles to rest. with a platform called JustRide, which is a cloud-based collection of railways, and we launched in Boston with the city’s commuter rail service,” Donovan said.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Their joint venture’s initial focus will be on using technology to provide U.S. The new company will be based in Boston and will operate as an independent entity free from profit-making incentives and constraints. employees, focusing on reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The more technologically or health-minded among us might even note things like tablet-based POS systems or an HVAC system with disinfecting UV light built in to attack COVID-19. The company started off in voice technology, particularly in the context of making food ordering via voice assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

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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). But like most of us, you will not spend the big weekend at the game — or in Visa’s hyper-exclusive lounge.

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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). But like most of us, you will not spend the big weekend at the game — or in Visa’s hyper-exclusive lounge.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

The most recent details on FedNow come roughly a year after the central bank announced its plans to build and operate real-time rails. She said rapid access to funds would be useful for those living on fixed incomes or paycheck to paycheck (about 60 percent of consumers, as estimated by PYMNTS’ research).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

We may be a long way from ending corporate waste and fraud, but spend management systems are the technology of choice for treasurers and accountants who are working to make it happen. It’s a new year in a new decade of the 21 st century, but paper expense reports, paper receipts and paper reimbursement checks are still with us.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

2022 will be a big year as we move from development to pilot testing and begin to engage more with financial institutions in active planning,” says Nick Stanescu, senior vice president, FedNow business executive, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “We Finding the right technology partner may be a central part of community bank planning.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Achieving those mission-critical seconds has never had more options, with the QSR industry in the midst of enjoying a boom in new technologies that promise to reduce wait times while boosting food quality and customer service. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Foot Locker is closing 110 stores, Abercrombie & Fitch is closing 60 stores, department store Bon-Ton is possibly headed toward liquidation, and Toys R’ Us has shut down completely. The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Even a decidedly low-tech business can benefit from a little technological boost to help it roll smoothly into the future. They are increasingly able to serve more customers than ever before, thanks in large part to mobile payment acceptance technology. Pedicab drivers in cities like Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many of the Main Street businesses, which were once options for consumers, have closed or operate with limited hours and inventory,” Webster noted. And most of those restaurants, according to Wall Street Journal reports , will be small, independently operated locations. The Power of Persistence. It takes guts.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Regulatory fines imposed in 2017 alone proved this to us in many ways. According to Boston Consulting Group, banks across the world have paid nearly USD 321 billion in fines since the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, as the regulators are more focused than ever on compliance. Learn more: IBM Financial Fraud Prevention.

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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. Café X Technologies. Total Disclosed Funding: $51M.

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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. Doubling Down On Tech.

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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. Stay tuned!

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. 2018 VC Report: AI FUNDING LEPT 29% IN US. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA.

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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., Technology, however, is changing that. Keeping up with the competition .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

And, by those standards, Target has us exactly where it wants us with Project Goldfish. Stringfellow was promoted to the permanent position of VP of internal innovation and operations. billion a year on technology and supply chain initiatives by 2017, up from up $1.9 What Is Project Goldfish? “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

The two car rental giants are the poster children for the way technology may be making inroads into forcing an entire business model, well, off the road. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. The coffee chain was launching the expansion in San Francisco on Tuesday (Jan. But Starbucks is no stranger to the offering: It tested out the service in Miami last year and saw “strong demand” with repeat business daily.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. That would ignore the fact that there’s a huge swath of SMBs who operate just like him and bank at one of the 13,198 banks that have not yet connected to the Zelle network — lots of them very small.

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Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. Happy Returns currently has seven Return Bars operating in five major cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Houston. Happy Returns will also be growing in its existing markets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Analysts at Boston Consulting Group estimated earlier this year that novel digital financial services platforms like ePayments, cross-border transactions and supply chain financing will yield nearly a third of corporate banking revenue. .” One technology startup, Devo, secured $25 million for its products and services in this market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Don’t worry if you didn’t remember to get us a present – we didn’t want to make too big a deal out of it, so we didn’t remind you. The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). No matter how good the technology you built is, payments is hard. Really hard.

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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. Simultaneously the bank invested in Paladin Fraud, Trabian Technology, and Chartwell Compliance to provide compliance and risk management solutions in the complex and connected web of fintech partnerships.

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