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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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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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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Perficient

JUNE 22, 2020

In our previous posts , we discussed the increasing popularity of curbside pickup and click and collect as a retail channel and demoed a pickup solution powered by Twilio Flex, Twilio’s cloud-based contact center platform. In our demo, each delivery person is set up as a worker in Twilio. Twilio Studio. Twilio Sync.

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PYMNTS

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. Verizon has outfitted 13 NFL stadiums with its 5G wireless service, allowing fans to watch demos of multi-angle instant replays. The company applied to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Whether it’s toy demos or personalized skincare sessions, stores are expanding beyond the traditional transactional product push to draw shoppers in and make a sale. The retail giant is offering customers free cookies and toy demos as an unexpected way to capture attention and appeal to shoppers.

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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. For example, if Maybelline is introducing a new makeup line, it can debut it without conducting in-person demos at salons or other brick-and-mortar locations.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. The outlet also noted that the retailer was seeking to build an “operating system” for retail with its Store of The Future.)

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PYMNTS

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. The company was founded in 2016.

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PYMNTS

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. the report noted.

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PYMNTS

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

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Major retailers are stepping in to fill the void left by Toys R Us: Walmart , in particular, is growing its toy assortment by 30 percent in its brick-and-mortar stores, and by 40 percent online. To that end, the retailer is rolling out “thousands” of additional items to give customers more options.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

With a unique customer experience becoming ever more important in retail, virtual reality could play a significant part in those efforts. That’s the case made in a recent story from Forbes , which examines the growing trend of virtual reality (VR) in retail applications, paying particular focus to a number of Samsung’s offerings.

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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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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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BankInovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Western Alliance Bank transferred $1.1 million digital dollars to Coastal Community Bank in an inaugural demonstration last week of a new payment rail built on blockchain technology. More than 100 U.S. banks watched the real-time transfer between $50 billion Western Alliance Bank and $1.5 billion Coastal Community Bank Dec.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

Quatromoney works with students and families to draw up personalized financial plans to pay for college. According to the company, its platform can help students calculate four years of payments in minutes. Quatromoney aims to turn college financial planning into a customized experience, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Sharper Image is dipping its toe back into physical retail, according to news from CNBC. This is the first time in ten years that The Sharper Image has opened a retail location. The retailer is best known for gizmos like massage chairs, talking bathroom scales and air purifiers. “We ThreeSixty Group, Inc.

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PYMNTS

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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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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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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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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OCTOBER 19, 2020

This will now be the ‘new normal” for customer onboarding across all products and services, whether retail and commercial. Marketing : The financial industry will use videos to engage with customers, replacing FAQs, and product demos. Contact: Sales teams need to use digital tools to connect with clients (e.g.,

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JULY 2, 2018

We think those brands – those with an authentic history and story to tell – are going to be the winners in this changing retail environment.”. In launching their first pop-up shop in Times Square during the holiday season in 2017, Conn noted, they got a very front-row view of the new nature of the transient retail promise.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

Agora Services provides white-label mobile banking solutions to community banks and credit unions. Earlier this month, the two-year-old startup launched solutions geared toward small businesses and teens.

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JULY 16, 2020

It’s “health concerns first” for retailers during the pandemic. Knowing this, retailers from Apple to Best Buy and beyond have opened up their appointment shopping capacity. It is not difficult to roll out a robust reservation solution in a short period of time,” says a blog post on the Retail Industry Leaders Association. “It

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Luxury retail took a nasty hit in 2020, as its intimate and consultative manner of conducting business in-person for big-ticket purchases was rendered nonexistent. Combine the absence of physical retail for luxury goods with the sweeping job loss and economic destruction left in COVID’s wake, and luxury has landed in hot water for the moment.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In addition to fireside chats, startup demos, and general sessions, Bank Innovation’s 2018 conference has added a pre-conference workshop on how to build an innovation team, added even more time […].

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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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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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AUGUST 26, 2016

Best Buy is pushing a big expansion of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in a number of its stores to try and boost interest in the costly devices that can retail for about $599, according to Retail Dive. The electronics retailer plans to roll the demos out in 500 U.S. stores in the coming weeks.

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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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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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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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