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Can Banks Solve their Small-Dollar Loan Problem with Fintech Partnerships?

Bank Innovation

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

PYMNTS

The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Innovation Program. Innovator Awards.

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How Cashierless Checkout Can Power Brand Marketing Experiences

PYMNTS

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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Amex Rolls Out New Global Branding Campaign

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On Monday (April 9), American Express unveiled a new global brand platform and marketing campaign dubbed “Powerful Backing: Don’t Do Business / Don’t Live Life Without It.”. While we have always been known as a relationship company, many people have considered us as only a consumer brand. Chicago and San Francisco.

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How A Subscription Nutrition Brand Aims To Help An Aging Population

PYMNTS

eCommerce innovators are offering plant-based nutrition beverages designed for baby boomers and their parents with the help of the subscription business model. On Perennial’s website, the company seeks to make its brand purpose front and center. While there has been some innovation in cleaner label brands in non-dairy milk (e.g.

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Aura is using grocery stores to market installment loans to the underbanked

Bank Innovation

The San Francisco-based startup brands itself as an alternative to predatory payday loans, much like fellow startups LendUp and Prosper. In addition to […].

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Fast-Casual Brands Make Their Mark, Right On The Burger

PYMNTS

In a competitive fast-casual and dinner delivery world, how can one brand make its mark? San Francisco chef Anthony Strong launches his new restaurant, Young Fava, today, June 14. Meanwhile, established restaurants are keeping their brand in the spotlight by putting it directly on the food. It doesn’t have a dining room.

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