PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Givingli is an app that brings together greetings created by indie artists, customization functionalities, and gifts from brands, according to a Thursday (Jan. Blackhawk allows for eGift sales through Givingli’s app, with the inclusion of cards that can be used at travel, food and beverage, and health and beauty brands.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With new risks, shifting market dynamics, and the unstoppable march of technology, the insurance industry finds itself at a crossroads. Perficient’s insurance experts, who were interviewed for this report, echo this sentiment, emphasizing the need for insurers to embrace innovation to stay relevant.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The road to differentiation among fintech startups entered a new phase this week: patenting technology to put a brand’s stamp on it forever. On Tuesday, personal finance technology startup Movencorp confirmed that it patented its digital financial wellness product.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes the launch of business cards by American Express and Amazon in addition to one by Wyndham Hotel & Resorts and Barclays.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Rho Technologies , the FinTech behind Rho Business Banking, has raised $15 million in a Series A round, according to a press release. The innovation will help make sure companies don't need multiple programs to handle these tasks. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While the concept of a brand having a “voice” is not a terribly new idea, before this month it was more metaphorical and mostly a synonym for “style.” As of a few weeks ago, however, Amazon announced that Polly is now taking its offering up a level, and allowing brands the opportunity to customize text-to-speech voices for their Alexa skills.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Project Verte has launched the MyVerte blockchain -based marketplace for direct-to-consumer brands. According to a press release , MyVerte will launch with over 100 brands, including new brands like Foreo, Temporary Forevers and La Luna Rose. The platform will also highlight new brands on a weekly basis.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Customer expectations have evolved drastically due to the impact that digital technology has placed on the customer experience. We’ve helped many of the world’s most innovative and customer-focused brands, including automotive companies, transform how they serve, engage, and support their customers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. He added that “our customers buy our product because we offer advantages over the technologies mentioned here.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index , conducted in partnership with PSCU , found that over 20 percent of members would drop their current CU over lack of innovation. The share of CU members reporting they were willing to change primary FIs over insufficient innovation increased by 4.6 percent to 21.9 Competitive Threats.

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The Financial Brand

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This article New Consortium Seeks to Accelerate Small-Bank Technology Innovation appeared first on The Financial Brand. Helping community banks catch up with technology is the goal of a partnership between banks, a fintech VC firm and an asset manager.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group Holding have announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global , Alibaba’s B2C platform for international brands and retailers. The partnership will offer Boots beauty brands to more than half a billion consumers in China, including No7, Soap & Glory and Boots Cucumber.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mastercard ’s Senior Vice President of Innovation and Startup Engagement Deborah Barta told Karen Webster in a conversation with Luis Macias , CEO and Founder of GrainChain , that COVID-19 has only intensified the issue. Via their IoT integrations and technology on the ground, they can quantify information and verify that it's real.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

And in restaurant innovation, Domino ’s has become a leader in mobile and digital technology as it blazes its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. 2019: The year Instagram rolled out in-app checkout for brands. All this, Today in Data. 26.5M: Number of monthly active TikTok users in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And, as consumers have many options, fast-casual and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) realize they must meet growing diner expectations and embrace technology to stay relevant. And food-ordering platforms are teaming up with restaurant technology companies to make it easier for eateries to accept delivery orders.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In retail, the Flat Tummy Instagram brand was able to make an effective algorithm that could accurately predict the effect an influencer would have on pushing its line of teas. Wrench is serving as a mobile source of mechanics – and saving consumers a trip to the auto repair shop.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We are taking advantage of unused capacity,” Cooler Screens Chief Technology Officer Rob Dravenstott told PYMNTS in a recent interview. “We For most of us, a stroll down the chilled or frozen food aisle in the supermarket is essentially an in-store version of window shopping. sales lift is not a common thing.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

To help diners make the best use of their mobile devices to order meals, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are tapping into mobile innovations. Technology that lets diners place their orders for pickup or delivery has become more common, and mobile devices are serving more restaurant functions than they have in the past.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In a bid to serve customers through digital channels, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are rolling out new innovations. These technologies bring more options for consumers to order and pay for their meals, such as kiosks and mobile ordering. It’s like converting casual dining to fast food,” Dine Brands CEO Stephen Joyce told The Post.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

For a glimpse at how innovation is playing out in the retail world, it always helps to take a look at recent developments in the world of quick-service restaurants, or QSRs. Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, reported an overall year-to-year revenue gain in the second quarter of 2019 of about 10 percent, to $1.31

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Nearly four out of 10 CU members would be willing to switch primary FIs, according to the PYMNTS Credit Union Innovation Playbook — and the COVID-19 pandemic is making it even more important for credit unions to provide the support and stability that consumers seek. Listening to Members. TDECU and other CUs across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. A new lab store from 7-Eleven underscores the innovation wave that is taking place in the convenience store sector of retail – a sector ripe for change, disruption and growth. stores with the innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It has been a year of innovations for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), with chains rolling out new digital technologies to help diners order and pay for food without having to wait in line. Brands’ Pizza Hut unit announced that it would acquire online ordering software and service provider QuikOrder.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

New technology continues to change the way consumers order and pay for quick-service restaurant (QSR) food: Kiosks and online ordering, among other experiences, let consumers ditch the counter for faster and higher-tech alternatives. Not all digital innovations are perceived by consumers the same way, however. out of 100. out of 100.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 8, 2017

I recently hosted Nick Ogden, the founder of WorldPay and serial entrepreneur, at our Nordic Finance Innovation meetings in Stockholm and Oslo. Even today he claims they have achieved double digit … The post A brand new Clearing Bank for Britain appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

Among the fastest-growing hotel brands, Life House has over 800 beds and 25 hotels that are expected to be operational by early next year. . He added that software eliminates many issues but some “are solved with innovation in the supply chain of our services.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Innovation Challenges. Payments innovation, for starters, is an alien concept for many travel service providers, especially in the U.S. The PYMNTS-Amadeus research found that only 15 percent of all travel companies have attempted new payment innovations over the last three years, let alone succeeded. Innovation Willingness.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. But not all innovation labs or tech hubs give rise to seamless tech progression. PYMNTS readers can be forgiven if they view innovation labs (no matter the label) as something that verges on retail fad.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Vince Cacace , CEO of Vertebrae, told PYMNTS that AR in 3D has become a high-demand technology for all kinds of products and retailers. “We The David’s Bridal application was built by Vertebrae , a tech company that specializes in bringing real-world applications to retailing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The question for the 2020s, and the focus of her remarks at the big show in New York last week, is about innovations itself — what is truly leading in innovation and what constitutes being a laggard? The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation . The answer, she noted, is complex.

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