PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Questions still abound about privacy and public adoption of the technology, but according to a new report from the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) the pandemic might be on the verge of producing a “golden age” of drones. “At sentiment on the technology hasn’t been measured recently. Yet, the public jury on drones is still out.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Here’s an exercise that may come off as too academic – like a debate over how many angels fit on a pinhead – but is really among the most vital for not only PYMNTS readers, but pretty much any other business operators: What is the perfect payments experience? But getting to that goal is much easier said than done.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

He quickly became connected to Jeff Morin , an MIT-educated engineer and personal trainer with an eye for both physical and technological performance. The company will operate on a DTC basis for the foreseeable future, although they have received inquiries from gyms and fitness retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Business owners in these industries are learning how to survive financially as consumers abide by stay-at-home orders, all while preparing to restore their operations and afford payroll, utilities and other needs once doors reopen. Other entertainment operations are also experimenting to stay in the game.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Assessing the value of bank branches is an exercise that began long before the pandemic, but vaccine and mask mandates added new considerations to the debate. Rethinking branches isn’t a one-size-fits-all exercise. Use technology to drive down costs. You don’t go to school to learn how to become head of deposit operations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

The companies said boon is the fastest-growing mobile payment solution in Europe since 2015 and the first digital mobile payments solution to operate independent of a bank. He believes boon users will be able to use their digital boon Mastercards with their favorite wireless devices while jogging or doing any other form of exercise.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As for insight into buying activity, the company offers analytics across a single platform that are being fed by a merchant, retail and online channel, Canning said. “If We’ve seen very strong traction primarily in retail and QSRs for several different reasons,” the executive told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

A smartwatch can act as a personal trainer that motivates the user to reach daily exercise goals. Microsoft users can say to their Windows 10 device, “Cortana, open Alexa,” and use the service to operate their smart home devices or purchase items from Amazon. For the latest notable IoT headlines and trends, check out the Tracker.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

The operative question is: given online and mobile banking, what is the new role of the branch? At an average of $1 million per year to operate, the branch is the most expensive per unit channel in banking, given that a good branch serves 2,000 to 3,000 customers. Branching is expensive – banks need to use the asset wisely.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

Technology Stack: Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, PostgreSQL | APIs Used: Cloudinary Media Optimizer. Technology Stack: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, ForeignKeys, Jinja | APIs Used: Used data from “California regulations of possibly harmful products”, which was a CSV file. Bright Paths Project: Plenti.

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Milwaukee Software Course Detroit 348

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. Ralston argued it’s a situation blockchain technology is uniquely well-suited to solve.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Technology departments at many banks are run like fiefdoms, where one small group makes spending decisions for the entire department. Voice and data circuits are among the top technology spend line items in most banks’ information technology budget. 037% of assets. Apply a team-based approach to spending decisions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Smart trash receptacles are already being used to alert sanitation crews where trash collection services are needed, allowing them to adjust their routes and operate in a cost-effective manner. Urban centers could use connected technology to track the speed and efficiency of buses, trains and subways, as well as public and private vehicles.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

If someone wanted to make a two-mile journey in San Antonio, Texas, to see the Final Four at The Alamodome, for example, the trip would be “an exercise in 25 to 35 minutes by car,” Blue Duck Scooters Co-Founder Eric Bell told PYMNTS in an interview. Dockless Technology. But that doesn’t have to be the case for travelers on scooters.

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San Antonio social media Exercises Mobile 123

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019), it is clear that what has happened this year will have big implications for the new decade. One can bet that the ongoing deployment of new 5G mobile network technology will drive things further. Past is prologue.

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Cards Payments Study Examples 160

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Technology departments at many banks are run like fiefdoms, where one small group makes spending decisions for the entire department. Voice and data circuits are among the top technology spend line items in most banks’ information technology budget. 037% of assets. Apply a team-based approach to spending decisions.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If you want the head of commercial lending or retail banking to take ownership of the continuous improvement of their spreads so the bank can improve its net interest margin, you must first measure it. We guide your institution into creating an operating plan, or the "how" to strategy execution. Resources can be allocated efficiently.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Eighteen years later, with the advent of voice commerce and constant improvement of voice technology and ecosystems, Guestfriend Founder Bo Peabody thinks the same could be about to happen with chatbots. Hotels, spas, salons, and exercise boutiques all have their own vocabulary that a bot must understand so it can respond.

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Google Exercises Conference Industry 137

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

FightCamp is not the only fitness company to operate on the model of pairing fitness equipment with content. Peloton , which is reportedly eyeing an IPO, offers exercise bikes that come with tablets that allow spin class subscriptions. The technology helps you at least try to … keep up with the goals during every round,” Zahar said.

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System Exercises Training Company 108

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2017

Google and its parent company Alphabet are also ramping up their altruistic activities worldwide, with new investments in African tech, skills, and startups; new languages supported by its speech-to-text technology; and a collaboration with ProPublica on a national Hate Crime Index for the U.S. Android Oreo Confirmed. For U.S.

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Google Video Training Exercises 102

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The new exercise-oriented watches appeal to consumer lifestyles and are beating out competitors, such as Fitbit and Garmin. According to Telsyte, 47 percent of smart wearable users exercise for 30 minutes per day compared to 30 percent for the general public. The global average for charges by mobile providers is 2.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

business plan, technology, people involved) and prepared to lose your entire stake.”. Sebastian Quinn-Watson of Blockchain Global, a bitcoin exchange operator, told Business Insider that the news out of China was an “absolute win” for the cryptocurrency community, because it will weed out illegitimate ICOs.

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Bitcoin cryptocurrency blockchain Regulation 177

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

From working a full day at the office to exercising regularly, making dinner, doing laundry, visiting friends and family as well as finding time for yourself, trips to see a physician can seem like a hassle. I combined my background in technology with my wife, Dr. Renee Dua’s medical expertise, and the concept for Heal was born.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Drone technology has been used by defense organizations and tech-savvy consumers for quite some time. However, the benefits of this technology extends well beyond just these sectors. And as autonomy and collision-avoidance technologies improve, so too will drones’ ability to perform increasingly complex tasks.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 8, 2020

Information technology is the third largest expense in a bank behind employee and facility costs. This is not the time for banks to conduct an uninformed “everyone cut 15% exercise” among departments. The “next normal” will not allow for the levels of inefficiency that exist in a legacy banking operation.

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Insights on Business

JULY 20, 2017

A traditional retail bank has its own distribution channels (such as branches, contact centers, and digital channels). It also creates its own products and has its own back-office operations. However, in the retail market, the bank is experimenting with a solution that streamlines the process of buying a house.

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NCR

AUGUST 17, 2017

The paper includes the results of the first EU-wide “fintech mapping exercise” and the EBA’s proposals for future work in this area. This is a very real possibility in the EU, with the European Banking Authority (EBA) recently publishing a discussion paper outlining its approach to fintech.

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Regulation Fintech Exercises Capital 51

PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Fish tank owners will tell you that fish tank ownership is in fact an exercise in living with constant anxiety because re-creating the conditions of a natural environment indoors artificially is not easy work. The team at Back to the Roots can’t help with all the levels of fish madness that go into fish tank ownership.

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New York New York City Oakland Exercises 101

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. That just makes the point much stronger. Consider this.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

That meant bug free and a consistent experience across devices and geographies and operating systems. RS: Knowing that the world is moving to a more integrated intersection between technology and human behavior, optimizing those experiences has to happen through a combination of market research, usability testing and functionality testing.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

This is not an academic exercise. Important technology and marketing dollars will be invested based on these answers. At the same time, it might be making the branch channel less profitable because it took business from a channel that is mostly fixed cost (see note on fewer locations above). The other area is payments.

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CB Insights

APRIL 23, 2019

From mobile-operated kiosks in cars to smart refrigerators in offices, alternative offline wellness point-of-sales are emerging. As beauty brands cater to consumers’ exercise regimens, fitness brands are also moving into beauty. Wellness Retail & Pop-Ups. This year, expect to see more efforts around sustainable tourism.

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Trends Branding Exercises Marketing 49

PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

Things like sending their children to private schools and colleges abroad, or seeking medical treatment for acute illnesses or important but relatively “routine” procedures like hip replacements at institutions with more advanced technologies and medical staff than exist within their own country are regarded as a high priority.

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Payments Exercises Marketing Study 100

Tech and Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The sentient enterprise actually does some of the understanding itself and takes on aspects of operational decision-making, freeing the human mind to focus on high-level strategic analysis and creativity,” he wrote on Teradata’s Forbes page recently. For company, becoming data-driven is a journey, he added. “GE

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They’re also embracing new technology and the unprecedented discoverability and customer connections it allows. Finally, technology is helping millennials learn more about camping and find camping experiences. Few industries will benefit as directly from the rise of millennials’ economic power as the fitness industry.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella referred to chat as the “third run-time” — an indispensable piece of operating a platform, second only to the operating system and the web browser. Mentions of chatbots in earnings calls and press releases skyrocketed, and for many, it seemed that chatbots might be the next big disruptive technology.

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Industry Examples Tools Retail 78

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The OCC’s 2015 “Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices” found, for the third consecutive year, that more banks are easing underwriting standards for commercial and retail loan products, than tightening. We are also seeing larger loan concentrations, without concurrent increases in reserves.

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