Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The giant eCommerce website can now connect a stored credit card with a palm print. For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. This marks the fourth Go store, and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

With the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle in January , Amazon arguably popularized the cashierless store concept. Since then, the eCommerce retailer has brought the store to other locations in the city and Chicago as well as one location on the way in Lower Manhattan. If she decides not to buy an item, she can put it back on the shelf.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. Customers also receive exclusive perks and benefits with the credit card.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2020

The pilot will be introduced in the Seattle, Washington area, the company said, and will let customers use their mobile phones to pay in a seamless manner. Kroger Senior Director of Payments Kathy Hanna said the innovation is intended to improve the customer experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

With the recent announcement of details surrounding the new Amazon Go grocery stores , which will feature “Just Walk Out” technology, new reports have surfaced about the size and scale of the retail giant’s brick-and-mortar ventures. No plans to build such a store,” Arthur added. If they put an item back, it senses that, too.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2016

SEATTLE — LendingTree will “buy the clicks” previously pointing to Google Compare, now that the search giant is shuttering the service, a top LendingTree official said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

The tills and checkout area of the store have been removed, and a helpdesk was created to assist consumers who want to make cash or card payments. The apparent payments policy shift comes amid criticism that cashless retail discriminates against unbanked consumers. Shelves are also stocked with meat, produce and Amazon meal kits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it be a personal loan or accounts receivable from credit cards, to get your money faster and control of your destiny means a ton,” he said. Innovation Vs. Incumbency. Innovation is a distraction and costs money, so they let the startups figure it out on somebody else’s dime. Incumbents do what they do.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

In a press release , HSBC said Pepper is being deployed in a retail branch in Miami, marking the first time Pepper has been deployed in Florida. Miami’s tech scene is experiencing positive growth and we see a lot of opportunity for disruption in the region,” Pablo Sanchez, head of retail banking and wealth management for HSBC in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Our fully compliant solution allows businesses to feature a state-of-the-art retail customer experience for both in-store and delivery, while also providing in-depth business analytics and increased revenues for businesses.”. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy. Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. With the right partnerships, SmartCart technology could be deployed anywhere — and without too much effort by retailers either. It may seem like a no-brainer.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. As the slogan implied, being an American Express card member was the only way to unlock those benefits.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The first location will open its doors in early 2017 in Seattle and without traditional registers. When the customer leaves the store, the app bills the purchases to the customer’s card on file and pings over a receipt. PYMNTS Karen Webster talked about the eight predictions that are keeping retail executives up and night.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

The data comes from Second Measure , a company that analyzes billions of dollars’ worth of anonymized debit and credit card purchases. Even more surprising, it beat out Amazon Restaurants in Amazon ’s home city of Seattle. To find out more about digital innovation by restaurants, read the PYMNTS’ index here.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

And with its scale in mobile payments and loyalty members, the company is well-positioned for other innovative initiatives. The ubiquity of mobile and credit card payments is enabling us to begin an exploration of cashless stores in the U.S,” Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said during a recent earnings report. “By million active members.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Amazon India has introduced a way for customers to pay their credit card bills through Amazon Pay , the eCommerce company’s payments arm. The feature allows making payments for any credit card bill via UPI or internet banking. Today, it offers a credit card and processes payments for customer bills.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

DealNews predicts Amazon will offer discounts of up to 50 percent on its own clothing brands during the Big Style Sale and will push other brands and retailers to do the same. Walmart this week purchased key assets from Seattle health-technology platform CareZone for a reported $200 million or so. And with Amazon in U.S.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. Here’s IBM’s chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999. The iPhone and iPod. Gerstner Jr.].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Contactless launched in New York City, retail earnings season was an ongoing rollercoaster, Facebook decided to digitally mint its own currency, the iPhone lost its dominant footing, Prime Day made all the money and Elon Musk and Jack Ma debated whether AI will be humanity’s future or the end of us all. Brian Cornell, CEO of Target.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Seattle-based doxo already offered consumers the ability to pay their bills with a single login, from any device, using their credit card, debit card, bank account or cash. […]. Apple Pay is now available as a payment method for more than 2.5 million consumers and 45,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

The Seattle Mariners also launched a mobile-only promotion in March that encouraged users to purchase a Ballpark Pass, a ticket that grants standing-room access to all home games for $99 a month. TIAA Bank Field, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is offering a similar solution in conjunction with Bypass and credit card reader provider Clover.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Seattle, WA. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: New York City.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

So, when Dunkin’ goes after Starbucks following the news that the Seattle-based company was changing its loyalty program, it also has to do with mobile strategy (which Starbucks, admittedly, has a lead on). Square offers free card readers and charges 2.75 But now Dunkin’ may have found its way in. at Starbucks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Acronym of the Year – CCCA (Credit Card Competition Act). Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Amazon is making its “Go” concept available to other retailers who have an interest in its “Just Walk Out” technology. The retailer is reportedly in discussions with other merchants and is said to have multiple inked arrangements with clients whose names are not known. Amazon To Deliver Coronavirus Test Kits In Seattle.

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