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OCTOBER 28, 2016

What about gift cards? Research says millennials love gift cards , so that may be a way to create a budding bitcoin trend. But other research says to forget millennials and focus on ourselves, as many of us enjoy buying eGift cards for me, myself and I — and, sometimes, you. Just like cash.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Security Save Of The Week: Blocking The Biggest DDoS Attack Attempt Ever . 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. And with Amazon in U.S. Big Healthcare Plays Part 1: The CareZone Acquisition.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

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

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Get the entire 54-page retail report. Why Are retailers are pivoting towards cashier-less retail?

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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. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. Virtual card issuance.

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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. Many applied, few were chosen.

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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

JUNE 18, 2018

Some of those upgrades will include the ability to explore products and services as soon as the app is downloaded, a new chat option that connects consumers directly to a specialist, and a digital wallet functionality that enables clients to add and instantly approve credit cards to their eWallets. The Loss: Ripple .

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Consumers, Karen Webster noted, weren’t looking to use smartphones as a new payment form factor in stores, because cards were and are already doing a largely acceptable job when it comes to lining up at a point of sale and paying. Though Webster and Canning noted that as technology is evolving, merchant complexity is diminishing.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Bill Me Later was one of the earliest fintech payment platforms on the market and gave big retailers the ability to offer flexible financing programs. Swipe fees alone are a $90B-a-year business for banks, card networks like Visa, and payment processors like Stripe. It’s likely that Amazon was too early to P2P payments.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This concept has been around for some time. In Europe several countries who have deployed this sort of defense strategy have seen major reductions in the amount of card fraud losses. When a card transaction is made, the system can check this against the location reported by the app to see if they match before approving the payment.

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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). Knowledgeable from retail to complex treasury needs, Cody is one of the best. Goes to Sen.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

The biometric software behind facial recognition applications can identify facial structures, contours, and expressions, making it a no-brainer for security and identification purposes. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Law Enforcement.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Microsoft has filed patents for trusted execution environments (TEEs) that could secure and support blockchain networks. The Seattle-based giant recently announced AWS Blockchain Templates, which will enable enterprises to launch Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric networks in a much faster manner. Read More : TechCrunch , WSJ.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer. The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Secure messaging for financial services. Gift cards backed with public company equity. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Card rewards management. Tags: Enterprise, IDology (investor), security, risk management, payments, Finovate alum. Source: Finovate. Source: Re/Code.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Developer tools for mobile card acceptance . HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. Tags: Credit cards, processing, SMB, merchants, developers, API, Finovate/FinDEVr alum. Source: Crunchbase. CardFlight. HQ: New York City. Latest round: $4.2 million Series A.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Seattle, WA. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Total raised: Unknown. HQ: New York City. Source: Crunchbase. Flexiti Financial.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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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). It’s becoming increasingly evident that biometrics and facial recognition are the future of mobile payments security.

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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

APRIL 4, 2016

An app with a card on file, Uber, as all of us who are addicted to it know, requires no intervention on the part of the consumer to pay and tip the driver. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle. started life as an option inside of the Uber app.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Security: Higher internet usage and data generation lead to increased investment. After privacy advocates raised concerns about user data security, the companies announced changes, including using Bluetooth signals instead of geolocation data.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The startup, which was established in 2008, privately raised $185 million before its $100 million initial public offering was blocked by the Australian Securities Exchange last year. So its secured lender, which [founder Scott] Jones didn’t name, recently emptied ChaCha’s bank accounts. via Business Insider. via Forbes.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Australian streaming startup Guvera has shut down after taking $185 million from investors.

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