BankInovation

MAY 18, 2020

A new partnership between Cross River Bank and Remitly, a Seattle-based remittance company, has enabled Remitly customers to receive international disbursements in near real time, thanks to Cross River’s recently expanded push-to-card capabilities.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

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

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This week, beverage company Dirty Lemon plans to bring such a store to New York City this week – with a little help from mobile technology. To allow shoppers to check out without visiting a cash register, the new store will deploy technology like heat map trackers at the door, which detect the footsteps of customers as they enter and exit.

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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 29, 2020

According to the eCommerce giant, the new technology will allow consumers to pay via a palm-print scan that verifies their identity and pushes their payment using whatever card they have stored. The technology will make its debut at two Amazon Go locations in the company’s hometown of Seattle, according to published reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Downdetector.com, the Seattle-based company that collects status reports from a variety of f sources, said there have been nearly 2,000 incidents reported with Apple Music, while more than 200 users flagged issues with iTunes and the App Store. It was unclear how many users and which countries were impacted, the news service reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for each family member, the Arkansas-based chain announced on Monday (June 15). CNBC reported the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for CareZone , the Seattle-based tech start up. CareZone said the apps have about 3.5

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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. Grocery chain Kroger is rolling out a new contactless pay solution at its Quality Food Centers (QFC) locations, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

With the unveiling of the first Amazon Go store in Seattle last year, multiple challengers have been inspired to offer new methods for shoppers to grab items from a store and avoid the checkout line. The eCommerce retailer can easily absorb the costs of undercutting rivals and creating technology.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Amazon released a video today promoting its Amazon Go stores and their “Just walk out” technology. For now there is just one store and it’s in Seattle and only open to Amazon employees, Read More. Users check in with their apps at the door and then fill their shopping bags and leave.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, British grocer Tesco plans to open a “pick and go” or “frictionless shopping” store to the public next year, following testing the store technologies with employees. often pioneer new technology like online delivery and self-payment kiosks that their American peers eventually adopt.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased CareZone, a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for customers and simplify the ordering and payment process. The the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for the Seattle-based tech startup. Walmart Boosts Digital Health, Wellness Capabilities With CareZone Buy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Seattle-based coffee giant’s loyalty program has 19 million active members that account for 48 percent of its annual revenue. . Advanced learning technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can enhance loyalty programs and help quick-service restaurants (QSRs) keep customers engaged and returning for more.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. These are just a few examples of how merchants are harnessing technologies such as kiosks and cashierless stores to serve shoppers through a variety of retail settings: More than half – or 52.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From North America to China, the concept is gaining ground around the world as retailers mull bringing the technology to multiple – even thousands of – locations. Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McDonald’s purchased California-based voice recognition startup Apprente last year, with plans to eventually implement the technology at its U.S. Technology is pushing other payments advances in the space, with some restaurants turning to contactless tools that require them to add scan-to-pay or text-to-pay features to their platforms. .

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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

MARCH 3, 2020

Companies are thus looking to technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help mitigate this. Fellow expense service Coupa has also made moves in this area, announcing it has acquired Seattle-based FinTech Yapta to innovate its tracking and spending software. Learn more in the Tracker’s Feature story.

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation. The technologies supporting a cashier-less environment.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Oberthur Technologies (OT) is partnering with payments service provider Nets to deliver support for mobile payments to Scandinavian banks. Nets and OT will combine their capabilities to offer an end-to-end mobile payment solution, which will include host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization to secure payments. “By

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Also, Amazon and top technology companies have unveiled the Voice Interoperability Initiative, and Mastercard is joining Pay.UK’s Request to Pay bill pay service. Amazon has rolled out a virtual health clinic with in-home follow-ups for Seattle employees. Users can choose to pay in real time or with their cards.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2016

But as technology advances, the concept of the traditional checkout experience is changing — quickly. Through video announcement , Amazon has released details on how its new Amazon Go grocery stores will work with its “Just Walk Out” technology. The video likens the technology to that which is found in self-driving cars.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Starbucks, for example, is moving ahead full force when it comes to technology enhancements. The company announced plans for a mobile-only ordering store in its Seattle headquarters in 2017, and now it’s bumped it up another notch. Customers also receive exclusive perks and benefits with the credit card.

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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. If they put an item back, it senses that, too.

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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. Instead, the company has brought its unattended retail technology to a kiosk, which Schoner said its pretty much the smallest walk-in retail environment that it could create. But it has a different focus.

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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. Europe and America by 2022.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

That meant a bigger embrace of technological enhancements that trend lines had already been favoring for a few years, like mobile order-ahead, digital loyalty programs and increased curbside and delivery offerings. The pandemic gave quick-service restaurants (QSRs) incredible motivation to get their digital acts together.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

“I hope you’re convinced we’re continuing to set the bar for digital in brick-and-mortar,” Matt Ryan, Starbucks chief strategy officer, explained after sharing the company’s technology plans. It’s been a busy few months for the Seattle-based retailer.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Seattle-area startup Switch announced today that it is providing “early access” to its free payment management service. By enabling cardholders to manage all of their accounts from one dashboard, the company says its technology is making e-commerce “faster, safer, and easier.” “Was it fun?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

Once the document is verified as real, the CLEAR technology extracts the necessary data and uses that as the basis for enrollment. The airport, he noted, is in many ways the ideal starting place for this kind of technology. The ATM is a use case, but so is healthcare or smart cities. There are a lot of options here.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Tech giant Apple recently released a new way to keep credit card numbers away from the prying eyes of cybercriminals. Apple’s new offering, a biometric credit card, comes with security features that make fraud difficult for bad actors. Seattle Seahawks Score a Biometrics Win. About the Tracker.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A decade ago, many financial institutions were bringing as much technology as possible in-house as a way of controlling their destinies and customizing their core platforms and data warehouses. In the cloud” is common technology vendor-speak for ASP, service bureau, outsourcing, pay-per-click, and a variety of other delivery models.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Meanwhile, their in-store customer base shrinks, as shoppers can now find lower prices and fast delivery with the touch of a few buttons on their smartphone – or even through interactive technology that uses voice recognition. The company also launched a new co-branded Visa rewards card with Alliance Data.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Merchants from QSRs to large eCommerce retailers are turning to technology such as digital kiosks to drive traffic into their stores. If they don’t, they risk losing business to competitors that embrace the technology, according to the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker. Besides QSRs, this technology is popping up at hotels.

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