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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Bank Innovation

MARCH 12, 2019

Identity proofing and verification startup Diro Labs won the DEMOvation Challenge today at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle. In addition to bragging rights, the company will receive admission to the INV Fintech Accelerator and an advertising package on Bank Innovation.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM has increased its fintech practice in recent years. The […].

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2020

Bank Innovation has hand-selected 10 companies to participate in its DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Ignite, which runs from March 2-3 in Seattle. The companies focus on a variety of use cases including customer acquisition, loan underwriting technology, conversational AI, fraud prevention, and other digital capabilities.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

But while local businesses want to stay local and keep their Main Street stores alive, they also want to expand digital and remote-retail experiences. Retailers need help right now. Shopify is doing everything we can to help retailers adapt to current challenges and come back stronger,” said Ian Black, director of retail at Shopify. “We

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BankInovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Seattle-based fintech, with $312.6 Remitly, which provides cross-border remittances and financial services for immigrants, today began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. billion in assets, priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $43 a share under the ticker symbol RELY. Shares climbed to a high of $50.70 at 11:45 a.m.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rob Guilfoyle, CEO of Abe AI, will be speaking at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 in Seattle. Guilfoyle will be on the panel titled “The Future of Banking Experience,” where he will address topics such as the role of natural language in customer experience as well as the type of solutions that can […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

From telehealth to new financing options for patient treatments to big retailers like Walmart , Walgreens and CVS mashing up retail with healthcare, everyone from startups to incumbents are using the pandemic as an opportunity to disrupt — and reinvent — healthcare. Everyone From Pharma To FinTechs Is Also Involved.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy. It’s not going to be easy to win over the Indian FinTech market,” a source told Reuters. WhatsApp Pay debuted in India in 2018.

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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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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Joel Kashuba, SVP of Design & Innovation at Fifth Third Bank, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation Ignite, taking place March 11-12 in Seattle. Kasuba brings fresh design thinking to the banking world. He has been at Fifth Third for about a year and a half. Prior to that, he was a professor of […].

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Joel Kashuba, SVP of Design & Innovation at Fifth Third Bank, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation Ignite, taking place March 11-12 in Seattle. Kasuba brings fresh design thinking to the banking world. He has been at Fifth Third for about a year and a half. Prior to that, he was a professor of […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

FinTech firm POSaBIT is hoping to solve the problem of mobile payments for the fast-growing cannabis industry by delivering a unique blockchain-enabled payment processing and point of sale (POS) system. . The new fully compliant system will focus on the marijuana industry and will roll out across medical and recreational cannabis states.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Stripe often states that less than 8% of total commerce occurs online, suggesting roughly $26T in global, omnichannel retail sales. Seed VC, 2019).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Acquisition of the Year: Fintech Acquiring a Bank. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

According to reports, store number two will also be in Seattle, about a mile from the first location. Amazon said it is “excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle” for those who couldn’t quite travel that last mile. was cleared for launch, and coming soon. The store will open in Fall 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Contactless launched in New York City, retail earnings season was an ongoing rollercoaster, Facebook decided to digitally mint its own currency, the iPhone lost its dominant footing, Prime Day made all the money and Elon Musk and Jack Ma debated whether AI will be humanity’s future or the end of us all. Brian Cornell, CEO of Target.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

billion regional institution based in Seattle -- had a problem: many in the general public didn't realize exactly what it did. Washington Federal -- a $16.4 The post Podcast: With Rebrand, WaFd Puts Its Bank Identity Front and Center appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

There is a clear pattern in B2B FinTech investment. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution. The company services global financial services, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications firms with data management solutions to make their operations more efficient.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

So, when Dunkin’ goes after Starbucks following the news that the Seattle-based company was changing its loyalty program, it also has to do with mobile strategy (which Starbucks, admittedly, has a lead on). The coffee giants in the country have found one major way to make mobile payments relevant for consumers: tying it to loyalty.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

For the 12th consecutive week, there were 20+ fintech fundings worldwide. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Here are the fintech deals by size from 19 March to 25 March 2016: Open Lending. HQ: Seattle, WA.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. This report is a collection of everything we know about Amazon’s foray into banking, financial services, and fintech.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Almost 40% of the total ($223 million) went to Chinese real estate marketplace FangDD which is not universally classified as fintech. HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. The total included 4 Finovate and/or FinDEVr alums: CardFlight ($4.2 Total raised: $4 million.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

FinTech threats and distractions. Bravo to CEO Brian Vance, President Jeff Deuel and team for a watershed expansion into the hot Seattle market with a bank whose commercial skills can complement those of its acquirer. Oh, by the way, that Fintech darling of two years ago Lending Club? Heavy core conversions weighing us down.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

It was a blockbuster week in fintech with more than $6 billion in new funds flowing to the sector. HQ: Seattle, Washington. The post Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Tags: Consumer, retail banking, prepaid, mobile, neo-bank, debit card, white lable, B2C, B2B2C, Finovate alum.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce ranks. Prior to Covid-19, the online grocery market was a high-growth sector dominated by major retailers, such as Amazon and Walmart. Remote learning technology. 3D printing.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Here’s IBM’s chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999. “Amazon.com is a very interesting retail concept, but wait till you see what Wal-Mart is gearing up to do,” he said [IBM Chairman, Louis V. Gerstner Jr.]. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

But the Seattle U-Village main Starbucks has two of these is massive display cases near the queue (the back side has the usual holiday beans and merchandise). But I do see an opportunity to develop a retail gift card marketplace offering both plastic and virtual cards with distribution via online, mobile, in-branch and even ATM.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Affinity programs with local retailers. Relationships with major local employers (eg. the traditional credit union model). Lending, and banking, small businesses. Leadership in K-12 financial education. Social media & PR champion. None of those strategies are new, and you have likely dabbled in a many of them already.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

And as millennials seek out greenery to enhance their living spaces, retailers aren’t waiting passively for customers to come to them; instead, they’re adapting their offerings to reflect changing shopping habits among millennial consumers. Plants offer a low-cost, low-impact way to do this.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Fintech ‘Plastc’ Shuts Down After Cancelling All 80,000 Pre Orders. Product: Guvera.

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