Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2020

Payitoff, a white-label platform that provides automated guidance on student loan repayment, won the 2020 Bank Innovation Ignite DEMOvation contest. With the win, Payitoff has been awarded an advertising package on Bank Innovation worth $10,000. Rodrigo Suarez, principal of INV Fintech, moderated the startup pitch competition. “We

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JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? In its recent demo, Tesco’s system detected shoppers as they walked around the store. The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K. European Role.

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Divido is a London-based startup that offers point-of-sale financing solutions for lenders and retailers. Divido is part of INV Fintech, Bank Innovation's sister accelerator program. Watch this video for a short demo of Divido's product, as well as a Q&A with co-founder and CEO […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. For its part, Amazon is also experimenting with other – perhaps sexier – shipping innovations. The company applied to the U.S. 5G Efforts. One recent example?

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Bank Innovation

MAY 30, 2017

Banking consumers in Paris will soon be able to get a taste of “future banking” with a virtual reality-based app for retail banking, French bank BNP Paribas announced today.

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MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. Several companies have stepped up this week with some innovative remote solutions. Retailers can visit the company’s partner page to start the pilot.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 8, 2018

Mastercard launched PromptPay, a P2P payments application, in January 2017 in Thailand. The app now has more than half of the Thai population registered — 40 million people with over 173 million transactions and 700 billion baht ($22 billion) in money transfer value, according to data newly released by Mastercard.

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JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported. Amazon’s Moves.

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MAY 5, 2020

As retailers contend with the continuing COVID-19 crisis and the inevitable resettling of the business, one of the most popular pieces of advice has been to reformat existing stores. The way I see it, the grocery space is missing a discovery phase – in fact, I think you could say that about the broader retail landscape.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

The Toronto-based startup, which demoed at Bank Innovation 2015 in Seattle […]. Its engineers were also looking for a side project. What they came up with was a way to make billpay easier, and a bot, called Kbot, to smooth the way.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The retailer also offers a Shop The Look service in the store that allows customers to scan a quick-response (QR) code to find out the size and available colors of the items displayed on a mannequin. In Other Brick-And-Mortar Retail. The retailer’s comparable sales slid by 5.4 billion fell in line with analyst estimates of $5.41

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Two tech companies and a food brand have teamed up to develop a virtual reality (VR) headset that uses eye-tracking tech to determine the best way that retailers should stock products on shelves, according to a report by VentureBeat. The headset lets retailers track where the wearer looks when walking down the aisles of a virtual supermarket.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

The company is part of INV Fintech, Bank Innovation‘s […]. Agora Services, which is based out of Atlanta, offers cloud-based solutions that don’t require financial institutions to replace their core.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

We all know — and keep hearing almost ad nauseam — all about how the rise of online shopping is changing the very face of the retail industry and consumer habits. But what is that “changing face of retail” actually going to look like in a few years? Will consumers still shop at brick-and-mortar stores?

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2018

. - New takes on lending and underwriting dominated the opening day of demos at FinovateSpring 2018 here yesterday. But this being fintech's leading demo showcase, the featured startups offered up these basic, fundamental aspects of banking in a new way, often with "artificial intelligence" under the hood.

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JULY 8, 2016

Is retail heading to the dogs? Have you noticed lately how ridiculous some of the concepts for new retail stores are getting? Kanye West is getting his own line of adidas + KANYE WEST stores , thanks to the success of his clothing line with the sports apparel retailer.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. based company takes a different, data analytics approach to online retail marketing.

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MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Last week, at the AFP Conference, Online Banking Solutions (OBS) showed me a demo of how they are using a smartwatc h to authenticate corporate online banking transactions. When the user performs a certain function, an alert is sent to the smartwatch (the demo was shown to me on a Moto360 ).

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Time is running out to apply for Bank Innovation’s DEMOvation Challenge, in which fintech startups demo before a crowd of conference attendees in hopes of earning their vote and walking away with prizes. The application deadline is Friday, February 8. Apply here.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. Banks often do not have the customers, data, or pricing competitiveness to match big online retailers, and they seldom win on brand favourability.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Finovate Fall 2017 continued its second day of demos with financial service companies showing off everything from biometric solutions for traders, to how to program an old gumball machine to accept mobile payments.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 11, 2018

Largely triggered by Google's demo showing Google Assistant imitating human voice to book a hair appointment (see here; it’s pretty impressive), the chatter on Day 3 of FinovateSpring here was all about conversational banking. SANTA CLARA, Calif.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here is the response from Florin Arghirescu, SVP of business relationships and innovation at Synchrony Financial …. Use of technology in retail is no longer a trend, evidenced by a proliferation of solutions in 2016. Payments 2016: The Year Of The “Ecosystem,” Redefined. The point of sale (POS) is also changing the engagement model.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More. Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

set to grow significantly in 2020, we’re excited to see how our restaurant customers adopt this innovative payment acceptance feature,” said Rajat Bhakhri, CEO of Incentivio. A demo version of the Incentivio platform, with Mobeewave’s contactless payment acceptance technology on board, will be showcased at the NRF Retail event in New York.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

“Retail isn’t dead; it needs a revival.”. With a list of bankruptcies growing ever longer, suburbs hosting the carcasses of scores of dead and dying shopping malls and foot traffic on an ever-falling curve, it’s not hard to draw the conclusion that retail — or, at least, the brick-and-mortar version of it — is dead.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 11, 2016

— Thirty-nine companies demoed their products to the crowd at Finovate Spring today. Here’s our take on the demos from Read More. SAN JOSE, Calif. Not all were startups (IBM) and not all were really fintech (Quid). All of them did their best to impress a passionate crowd of 1,500+ fintech fanatics.

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JANUARY 12, 2019

The Retail Robots Are Coming … Maybe. Among a slew of other announcements at CES, Samsung snuck in some rather interesting robot-related news : The firm has developed three new consumer and retail robots, as well as a wearable exoskeleton. If it packed (and unpacked) itself, it would be the perfect innovation.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Whether that’s through data analytics, sales, CRM or even helping banks build better tools, the fintech companies demoing at Finovate in New York were […].

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JULY 6, 2016

While best known for making high-end home appliances — particularly its rather sci-fi vacuum cleaners — Dyson is making a move on being better known as a retail presence in its own right. The retail store doubles as something of a test center for consumers, with areas to test the complete line of Dyson goods beyond the famed vacuums.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Verizon has outfitted 13 NFL stadiums with its 5G wireless service, allowing fans to watch demos of multi-angle instant replays. As Verizon and AT&T work to get customers excited about 5G, merchants in retail and payments aren’t as thrilled. It’s the start of [a] journey, and 5G is a big enabler,” Verizon Communications Inc.

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JULY 24, 2018

The finale of Accelerator will be Demo Day in October 2018, where the selected companies will showcase their progress in front of investors, leaders from Amazon and the Seattle tech community.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Debatably the most impactful payments innovation of recent years — and that’s saying something — BNPL is having a massive impact on retail, as evidenced by the proliferation of brands and the steady flow of venture capital to players that are defining the space. It’s hard to say which is the best part of buy now, pay later (BNPL).

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Pop-up bars, pop-up candy shops, pop-up hairdressers, pop-up sleeping pods, pop-up museums – since 2015, one can basically take any retail-connected noun, pair it with the word “pop-up” and have a better than 50/50 chance of finding a match somewhere in an American city. But what worked 10 or 20 years ago, Scaretta said, just won’t work now.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Attendees from banks, credit unions, and other fintech companies saw 31 demos of technology that has applications across the financial sphere, from financial data analysis to mobile payments to trading. On the second day of FinovateFall 2016, fintechs continued to wow attendees with bright, dazzling new finovations.

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