PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The four-year-old startup, which just raised $10 million in Series A funding, develops non-meat equivalents of pork rinds, bacon seasoning and other piggy products for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) and retail markets. You definitely wouldn’t want to eat food that I prepared,” he joked. Bringing the (Plant-Based) Piggies to Market .

Los Angeles 141

Los Angeles Marketing Retail Company 141

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

B2B payments are an instrumental component of global trade and of setting the stage for currencies to operate as global instruments of cross-border trade. Three unnamed sources told Reuters that Chinese officials are opening up its large-value payment system to operate 21 hours a day, with the ability to process payments overnight.

Innovation 111

Innovation Payments blockchain Analysis 111

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Faster payments schemes across the globe are placing new definitions on what it means to be fast, especially as more initiatives heard towards real-time transacting. FIS surveyed 25 markets in which real-time payments programs are operational, rating their innovative qualities on a scale from 1 to 5.

Innovation 101

Innovation Payments System Operations 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Adobe announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire software company Marketo for $4.75 With nearly 5,000 customers, Marketo combines planning, engagement and measurement capabilities into an integrated B2B marketing platform. Until then, each company will operate independently.

CA 143

CA Customer Experience Leadership Software 143

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

The basis of innovation is not the desire to create something new or even the inspiration to do so. Innovation occurs where there is a problem and a person with the tools to solve it. Anyone can have a good idea,” Lowthers said; innovation is about what you do with it. PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why?

Innovation 101

Innovation social media Security Leadership 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Growing numbers of FinTechs are also forcing banks to innovate or be left behind. They are definitely more agile. They’re definitely faster. So, there’s definitely an opportunity and a threat at the same time.”. There is more talent than ever in the market right now. The Pandemic’s Impact on Payments.

Payments 301

Payments Fintech Innovation US 301

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Just because businesses are interested and willing to adopt payments innovations doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. markets that could be slowing down the digitization of electronic B2B payments. markets that could be slowing down the digitization of electronic B2B payments. The adoption curve, especially in the U.S.,

Innovation 100

Innovation Fintech Tools Technology 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As reported by CNBC , the suit hinges on the contention that the crypto — the third largest as measured in terms of market value before a double-digit percentage slide in its value to 34 cents — is a security, not a currency, and thus is regulated by the SEC. “We billion to fund Ripple’s operations and enrich Larsen and Garlinghouse.”

cryptocurrency 234

cryptocurrency Security Bitcoin Regulation 234

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very quick rebound, Bryan Petro , chief operating officer of boat rental and charter marketplace GetMyBoat , told PYMNTS. Innovation By The Boatload. Definitions Of ‘Safety On The Water’. From April [to August], we are seeing a 3,900 percent increase in demand.”.

Fraud 317

Fraud US Examples Tools 317

Bobsguide

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An award winning institution, Gansu Bank has won acclaim for innovation, risk management and technology practices in the recent past. We selected a proven, fully localized platform, TCS BaNCS to deliver the high level of innovation our vision demands to become a progressive, modern Bank.

Risk Management 78

Risk Management Innovation Compliance Software 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Food delivery company Deliveroo saw huge revenue growth in 2018, but its losses also grew as it expanded and poured money into new areas and ventures in the highly competitive food delivery market. The company’s revenues went up 72 percent in 2018, according to a report by the Financial Times , but it saw its operating expenses increase £349.4

Taxes 116

Taxes Innovation Meeting Company 116

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The Tracker found that some 74 percent of business executives cited a lack of interoperability as a major inhibitor to their real-time payments adoption, along with the operational and process challenges that come with ”living in a world where money moves that fast.”. It also goes with the territory anytime a new innovation comes to market.

Payments 185

Payments Innovation ATM Cards 185

Perficient

AUGUST 7, 2020

In order to fundamentally redefine the problem, health systems need to change their definition of the word “access.” Solving for this new definition of access necessitates a masterful balance of both supply and demand of the populations a health system serves. Health systems need to redefine the word “access.”.

System 332

System Management Operations Resources 332

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s one definition of “resilience,” of which much is needed during this time of upheavals and unknowns. The three challenges firms identify as the most problematic when it comes to managing AR are high operating costs (50.1 percent),” according to the December B2B Payments Innovation Readiness Playbook. It’s digitize, or else.

Study 190

Study Innovation Payments Technology 190

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

trillion by 2024, it’s small wonder that so much investment and innovation keeps pouring into the space. Financial access to, and inclusion in, new foreign markets will certainly create post-pandemic fortunes. As reopening and reinvention rolls inexorably forward, changed markets require fresh ways of doing things.

Payments 142

Payments Strategy Marketing Fintech 142

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

Over the past 10 months, that embrace has been retooled and refined to the point where today the IT department appears to be embedded in the marketing department. There’s been a real behavior shift over to digital [and] that won’t go away,” said Celeste Burgoyne , president, Americas and global guest innovation at lululemon. “At

Community 269

Community Retail Strategy National 269

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

One area in which we’ve seen innovation break through recently may come as a surprise: insurance. If there was any industry that could be viewed as the definition of mundane and stuck in its ways, it would be insurance. AS: DLTs can definitely provide a lot of value to the industry. SR: Impact is slow but expansive.

blockchain 127

blockchain Industry Bitcoin Innovation 127

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The report noted that there is no internationally agreed-upon definition of what that activity might be, but for the confines of the report, it includes “all credit activity facilitated by electronic [online] platforms that are not operated by commercial banks.” China was the largest market, yet volume has declined in recent periods.

Fintech 172

Fintech Lending United States Regulation 172

Perficient

AUGUST 30, 2022

Agility not only offers institutions a path toward expedited change but a way to simplify complex operations. Business stakeholders utilize many different techniques and tools when building a Roadmap, such as market research and customer intelligence data. Defining a clear Roadmap is an imperative beginning step in an Agile project.

Meeting 294

Meeting Examples UX Case Study 294

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The parking industry is a significant market but remains fragmented with many opportunities for technological innovation,” Michael Ronen, managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, said in a press release. The Impark transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

Capital 116

Capital Mobile Operations Technology 116

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

According to Chain Store Age , PetSmart has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Chewy, which offers a wide selection of products for pets. After the deal is closed, Chewy, which was founded in 2011, will continue to be led by CEO Ryan Cohen and operate primarily as an independent subsidiary of PetSmart.

Online 100

Online Retail Customer Experience Operations 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

That’s why companies from rideshare services to ticket platforms are moving to innovate their payments experience as a way to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Travel, by definition, involves mobility. Many are utilizing new technologies and rethinking their payment processes to cater to the growing need for instant pay.

Payments 189

Payments Marketing United States Retail 189

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

Branding 162

Branding Retail Philadelphia Marketing 162

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too small for large, enterprise-grade solutions, but too large for consumer-specialized tools. “Some observers will define the market as $10 million in the top line to $1 billion.

Management 116

Management Compliance Taxes Marketing 116

PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

“You have to look at the book seller market before Amazon,” he said. “You have to look at the book seller market before Amazon,” he said. There was no technology, big physical storefronts, a heavy inventory burden – that’s what this market is.”

Industry 148

Industry Operations Analysis Innovation 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Suppose a college student is in the market for new running shoes. With ReplyBuy, we'll operate in two-way conversations into that experience. Before the pandemic, I think there were definitely the beginnings of momentum for conversational commerce,” noted Numa CEO Tasso Roumeliotis.

Retail 188

Retail Technology Branding Mobile 188

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, as the just-released PYMNTS “ Commerce Connected Playbook: Retail Innovation Edition ” indicates, the interesting thing to watch is not that digitization is happening, but how it is happening. They see things on social media, they have been reached through direct marketing, email marketing, text marketing, etcetera about a product.

Retail 177

Retail social media Millennials Branding 177

PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Innovators like Streem are bringing remote assistance to traditional service calls (think busted pipe). By giving pros that telepresence to diagnose that busted pipe, they can gain operational efficiencies such as scoping and pricing jobs from afar, thus reducing some of their drive time.”.

Retail 182

Retail Google Tools Video 182

PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Kindred Group operates the online casino and sportsbook service Unibet. Kindred Group, which also supports gambling platforms in Europe and Australia, has been operating its Unibet brand in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for about a year. payments market is behind that of Europe, but U.S. The client expectations in the U.S.

Online 142

Online New Jersey Pennsylvania Regulation 142

CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

On November 7, 2019, the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School hosted an event with Brian Johnson, the CFPB’s Deputy Director, to discuss the agency, its rulemaking process, innovation programs, and goals for the near future.

Meeting 60

Meeting Analysis Innovation Leadership 60

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

That a market is massive and emerging as a target for digitization, does not necessary mean it will be an easy target to pursue — a lesson learned the hard way by Facebook in June when regulators hit the pause button on its adding payment capabilities to WhatsApp in Brazil. This is definitely happening.

Mobile 153

Mobile America Regulation Regional 153

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Open Banking regulations have gotten FinTech innovators’ brains churning over how to take advantage of the troves of data that traditional banks have typically kept locked away. As the market approaches that point, though, there are key questions — one of the biggest being cybersecurity. They realize SWIFT is not foolproof.”.

Data 177

Data System Regulation Security 177

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

When you’re a small business, and you have 60 or 80 payments a month, automation is nice, but it’s definitely not the value proposition that will shift businesses off checks.” That’s a big deal, and [a] strong use case [for faster payments], that can definitely increase adoption.” The result? ”

Payments 154

Payments Tools Cards Technology 154

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Keeping pace with parking payments and innovation. That simplicity also keeps Rover Parking competitive in what is rapidly becoming an oversaturated market with apps and institutions that back them. Rover Parking is not the only shared parking marketplace that will look toward such innovations in the future. in 2020. “No

New York City 121

New York City New York Innovation Chicago 121

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While regulatory requirements have emerged as a top “driver” of trucking innovation and technological disruption, the complexities of the industry’s supply chain mean that dealing with paper not only adds cumbersome processes to the fold, but slows down payments for trucking firms.

Industry 158

Industry Tools Regulation Management 158

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Barnum grew a series of small but well-marketed performances of human oddities into a full-blown traveling circus/freak show extravaganza for 146 years before the “big top” folded forever in 2017. Inertia can be the death knell of any innovation – and in payments, it’s the proverbial showstopper. and Barnum & Baily Circus.

Payments 152

Payments Innovation Connecticut Policies 152

BankUnderground

AUGUST 31, 2022

But while some of this development can build on well-grounded principles for financial stability policy, other aspects are likely to come up against three timeless challenges, requiring novel and innovative thinking to overcome. ‘The place beyond the banks’: market-based finance and non-bank financial institutions.

Policies 82

Policies Marketing System Regulation 82