PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). ICBA chose to back an accelerator program to speed up time to market, Tweddle said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Google has announced that it is partnering with select Indian banks to offer consumers instant, pre-approved loans via Google Pay (formerly known as Tez). This week, Google announced that it is rebranding the app as Google Pay, as the company plans an expansion into other areas of Asia.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Google announced Thursday (Nov. According to Google, Mastercard cardholders in Poland now have another way to make secure payments wherever Mastercard contactless payments are accepted. Google noted that Poland is the first country in central and eastern Europe and only the second country in Europe after the U.K.

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CB Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

Earlier this week, Google announced it had partnered with Allianz and Munich Re to provide a unique cyber insurance product to its Google Cloud customers. Expect more innovation in cyber insurance : Incumbents and insurtech companies are looking at a variety of technologies and strategies to cover the cyber insurance gap.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

As data security and transparency become greater concerns across a number of markets, some services are already working to confront the challenges. In India, Google Pay is up against t he New Delhi High Court over its operations in the region, facing a debate over how the payment service should be regulated.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Burger King — rather than wait for Google to roll out advertising options — recently took matters into its own hands by leveraging the “ dollhouse method.”. In a TV spot, Burger King directly addressed Google Homes across America: “Okay, Google.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Department of Justice is expanding its antitrust probe to include Google’s online shopping comparison tool. The investigation will delve into how Google acts in the eCommerce comparison market and whether it hurts the competition. Visa Warns Of Rise In Gas Station POS Cyberattacks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2017

While America was busy watching the solar eclipse (hopefully with the appropriate protective eyewear), Google rolled out its new Android OS and created the world’s first crowdsourced “Eclipse Megamovie” using footage from across the U.S. Oreo also touts new security features, app install controls, and emojis. Android Oreo Confirmed.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned that technology giants like Facebook and Google are now so dominant that they might need to be broken up. Apple , Microsoft , Amazon , Google and Facebook have a combined market capitalization of $3.7 That, said Berners-Lee, was a tipping point for many.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2016

Apple might generate long lines at its stores every time it releases an iterative iPhone, but there’s no doubt that, when it comes to OS market share, Android has been stealing Apple’s lunch money lately. percent in Europe, 7.3 percent in the U.S. and 6 percent in China.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

As much as Google would like users to believe there’s no device like Home, the smart speaker is not exactly delivering an over-the-rainbow experience for some. The idea was that users would be able to listen to Play Music tracks even if they hadn’t invested in Google’s streaming service subscription.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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Perficient

JUNE 24, 2023

However, many enterprise organizations face challenges when it comes to coordinating the rollout of new marketing technology products and achieving scalable growth. We’ve identified why each sort of company should upgrade, add, or replace marketing technology and system products.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To create and promote the adoption of a new royalty-free connectivity standard to make smart home products more compatible with security as a design tenet, Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled a new working group. It is created around the idea that smart home devices should be seamless, reliable and secure.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi, a China-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has almost secured funding to value the company at upwards of $1 billion before an initial public offering, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company, which was started by former Google employees and is backed by the company, wants to raise $100 million.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In August, we surveyed 154 marketing executives to find out what they think is likely to happen this holiday season and how they’re preparing for it. I’m the Principal for the Digital Marketing Solutions Business Unit here at Perficient. What will be different this holiday season and how to adjust your strategy accordingly.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

But economic collapse and the plummeting Toronto real estate market triggered by the worldwide pandemic has made the project no longer financially viable. That view was “strengthened at every step along the way” Doctoroff said, calling Toronto among the world’s “great centers of technological innovation.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Starting with some of the most recent changes — and a sign of what’s to come — earlier in the month, the European Commission offered up its initial draft of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. The watchdog would be known as the Digital Markets Unit. In recommendations issued earlier in the month by the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining down from the sky from the year’s early bird innovators. As recently as a few years ago, he noted, McDonald’s marketing was quite different — it was focused on its food as a good value.

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Cisco

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Venmo, just like Google, has become a proper noun AND a verb. Open banking allows third-party financial services companies to access consumer banking, transaction, and other financial data via the secure use of APIs. It is about opening up information to spur innovation of third-party providers to build new, added-value offerings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Paul Taylor is a former Google engineer who developed the speech recognition software used in the smartphones. Dubbed Vault OS, the solution is geared towards banks that need to update their systems with secure technology, he said. “What the blockchain does is provide a very secure way of storing transactions.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the charter would allow firms like Facebook, Google or Amazon to bypass the process by which they need to collect money transmitter licenses state by state. A lack of safety and soundness rules will expose the financial system to significant vulnerabilities.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

However, CUs face an innovation gap when compared to big banks that are racing ahead and implementing technology to better evaluate risk, provide personalized insights and foster greater financial inclusion in their markets. Half of U.S. Credit unions that have picked an AI integration starting point still have more barriers to pass.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Facebook Bid Against Google in Attempt to Acquire Fitbit. Facebook has reportedly been revealed as “Party A” in the attempt to acquire health tech company Fitbit, per a report citing a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The bigger players often encounter fewer barriers to market entry and expansion.

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CB Insights

MAY 24, 2023

Established players and innovative disruptors are embracing biometric payments — which verify and process payments using a customer’s physical features (e.g., face or palm) — to provide transactions that are more secure, efficient, and personalized. Become a CB Insights customer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

This time, it’s a move from Google , but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether they will have a major impact anytime soon on consumer perceptions of online trust — one of the biggest ongoing issues in payments and commerce. The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The subscription commerce market has grown at an impressive rate, having increased by more than 300 percent over the past seven years. In the July Subscription Commerce Tracker , PYMNTS explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s projected to be the future of marketing and commerce. The dedicated AR device market is projected to reach just under $660 million by 2018. And the combined AR/VR markets are projected to reach over $162 billion by 2020. Most recently, Lenovo rolled out the first ever AR smartphone using Google’s depth-sensing tech, Tango.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

.” The company has also applied blockchain technology to help protect consumers, by helping security tied to internet access. KT will use blockchain to come to bear on the energy market, this time in tandem with cryptocurrencies. Google Gets Further Into The (Blockchain) Game. Blockchain As City Initiative.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. The investment is part of KarbonCard’s seed round, which secured another $1 million last month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

They must deliver services that customers and clients demand while securing their personal data. More Data, More Innovation. market is seeing an uptick in faster and real-time payments transactions. The market completed roughly 1.3 Data can also be collected in a two-sided market mechanism. What’s more, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix has secured $10 million in new funding led by Great Hill Partners and the company’s Co-founders Matt d’Arbeloff and Andrew Robbins. Paytronix has introduced updates and innovations to help the industry stay on track, such as a tool to help restaurants quickly launch online ordering and delivery.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

In India, the influence of payments provider Paytm is continuing to grow, having captured 50 percent of the country’s total payment gateway market share. The company is also seeing an increase in the number of transactions it’s processing in the country, even as it faces more competition in the market from new entrants.

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