PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

“Continuing to expand our brick-and-mortar footprint is an important part of our strategy to be the most convenient, best-in-class pet retailer,” said Brian Amkraut, executive vice president of store operations for PetSmart. “In In addition to our store growth, we continue to take steps to further enhance the customer experience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a conference call with analysts, Walgreens Boots Alliance Co-Chief Operating Officer Alexander Gourlay noted that its pharmacy business has exhibited a particularly strong performance: “In the last year, we filled the highest number of prescriptions in Walgreens history,” Gourlay said. on Thursday (Oct. He also noted that 22.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Dunkin’ Donuts (soon to be simply Dunkin’) recently learned of some holes in its cybersecurity operations. The city of Bakersfield, Illinois, for example, recently disclosed that cybercriminals had compromised the third-party website Click2Gov, used to process residents’ utility and municipal payments.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

The technology it uses allows it to maximize efficiency while minimizing costs in its operations. Scottsdale Community Bank’s Lemonade Stand Loan Program offers microloans—up to $25,000 each—to small businesses and individuals who own businesses or operate nonprofit organizations. William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The incredible story of innovation now going on in self-service and UR is thoroughly documented in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS. Call it trend or phenomenon, cashierless operations are popping up back by influential money. Amazon Go’ Cashless.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

billion-asset community bank division based out of Buffalo built and outfitted a “rolling branch,” called BankOnWheels, an innovative banking experience that makes full-service banking accessible to more consumers and small businesses, particularly those in underserved communities, according to BankOnBuffalo president Michael Noah.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As for easing the path toward financial innovation, there’d always been some consideration of seeking a national banking charter, noted Cagney, especially as the company began building blockchain and blockchain applications over the past few years. Figure, said Cagney, can offer some of its products in New Yok — but not in, say, Illinois.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Buses are very expensive to operate and maintain,” she said, adding that not all schools offer ample bus service to the meet the needs of after-school activities. And it can take six to eight months to hire a bus driver.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

“We are excited to expand in the state of Georgia and add a new fulfillment center to better serve our customers in the region,”Akash Chauhan, vice president of Amazon’s North America operations, said in a statement. “This facility will create hundreds of new jobs with competitive pay and great benefits starting on day one.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“Today’s customer, whether consumer or small business, has become very comfortable and accustomed to anytime, anywhere self-service,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s executive vice president and chief innovation officer. This will create a more seamless borrower experience and provide significant operational efficiencies to the lender,” he says.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

With so much data available, is your organization harnessing it in the most efficient way in order to truly reap all the benefits of big data including driving innovation and improving the customer experience? Joe received a BA in Economics from Lewis University and an MA in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. In keeping with our vision, which is to be ‘the Best Billion-Dollar Bank in the World,’ we must keep innovating to best serve our clients,” says Jeff Versluys, executive vice president and chief retail officer for OCB. What’s on the horizon for retail banking?

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The FTC should be particularly attentive to next-generation technologies, innovations, and nascent industries so that the FTC can quickly target unfair practices. Operational objectives. Before joining the FTC, Mr. Levine worked for the Illinois Attorney General. . Policy priorities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. As that happens, retail operators — including some of the biggest and most famous — are turning to AI and putting more faith in the technology to help secure the future.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

States are moving to tighten their biometric privacy laws, following the lead of Illinois, which has what are considered to be the strictest protections in the U.S. They are stealing parents’ drivers’ licenses” in order to get around the protective digital fences put up by many (but not all) eCommerce operators. The method?

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

However, an innovative program run by the U.S. In Illinois, a loan participation plan by a community bank “insourced” jobs to the local area from overseas. In 2011, the company purchased a Costa Rica-based company with the intention of moving its operations to Rockford, Ill. million of their $5.1 million financing to the state.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

From Vengo Labs to Carvana , digital innovators in a variety of industries and spaces are reinventing the vending machine concepts with new technologies and features. The approximate number of Illinois residents employed by the vending and convince services industry is 7,000. And, in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

Jim and Denice Dunn, co-executive directors of a girl’s sleepaway camp called Camp Merrie-Woode, have decided to sit out the summer for the first time in its 101 years of operation. “[The camp] made it through polio, it made it through the world wars,” Denice Dunn told NBC. We’re wrestling with the five stages of grief.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nine hundred thousand dollars was over 4% of ASB's total operating expense in 2018. Providence Bank and Trust in South Holland, Illinois also pledged to tithe since its founding in 2004. Capitalist economies tend to generate greater innovation, efficiencies, and profit. But at ASB's level and with a public pledge to do so?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

PYMNTS: What do you think makes Chicago (or Illinois as a whole) an attractive location for both entrepreneurs and investors? Is there anything people may find surprising about operating a business here? MH: People should know that Chicago offers a level of skill and innovation equal to any other place globally.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Often, innovation and creativity soar when we allow employees to be curious and explore new ways of thinking.”. Power skills allow bank teams to add value beyond any automated or intelligence system, operate in a digital environment and continually adapt to new ways of working and new technologies.”.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Once we’ve been here for 10 years, we are awarded a three-month paid sabbatical,” says Emilie Johnston, chief operations officer. By Roshan McArthur.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. and its subsidiary BofI Federal Bank aspire to be the most innovative branchless bank in the United States providing products and services superior to their competitors, branch-based or otherwise.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois. Select Investors: Accel Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Cicada Innovations. Startups working in construction tech have the potential to upend approaches to design, procurement, and operations. Select Investors: Mainsail Partners, Revolution. Disclosed Funding: $4M. Propeller Aerobotics.

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CB Insights

MAY 9, 2019

Today, it seems like every large corporation has its own “ innovation lab.”. Few are more critical of the model than startup entrepreneurs and VCs, who argue that corporate innovation labs are mostly innovation theater. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Get the Best of corporate innovation. Waymo (Google X).

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MyBankTracker

MARCH 3, 2021

Lemonade advertises itself as a lower-cost insurance provider due to their lean approach to operations. They depend heavily on technology for their customer service for both estimates and claims while taking profits for their operations in a nontraditional way. Pricing and coverage. Water leak detection. Fire Extinguisher. Deadbolts.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

OUR PREDICTION: Health plans will need to pivot quickly to better align their business models, operating realities, and member expectations, shedding costs quickly and doubling down on digital transformation efforts at scale. Buying Innovates. Many health plans have centers of innovation where ideas are cultivated and tested.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Given the still nascent state of consumer adoption of mobile payments technology, time and opportunities for growth and innovation in the mobile arena at the community bank level still exist, banking technology experts say. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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CB Insights

JULY 16, 2017

XL Innovate. HCS went through a major management shakeup in November 2016 when former AIG head of commercial insurance strategy and innovation Greg Wolyniec joined as president and CEO, while AIG president of liability and financial lines Alexander Baugh was named chairman of HCS’ board of directors. Allianz Ventures.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

It’s one of several COVID-era innovations from the fantasy sports brand. We’ve been very mindful of that fact,” he said, “and making sure that our products are as innovative as possible, and that we’re finding new ways to continue to engage fans.”. The company recently expanded into Illinois via a casino partnership.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

The community bank uses the Entrepreneurial Operating System, commonly known as EOS Traction, to keep departmental efforts aligned. Michael Bartkoski, executive vice president and chief operating officer, NBKC Bank. Michael Bartkoski, executive vice president and chief operating officer NBKC Bank. Overland Park, Kan. Assets: $1.04

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

If the rules pass as present, long-term might be something of a huge misnomer, since, by even the CFPB’s own in-house estimates, some 85 percent of the nation’s currently operating short-term lenders would be knocked out of business. Has no other legitimate option available. For example, the majority of borrowers don’t live in inner cities.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

We spoke to two community banks to see how they’re using everything from higher salaries to innovative benefits to attract both entry- and mid-level employees. Between displacement of operational folks and discontent among lenders trying to adapt to a larger bank, we’ve been able to pick up some great talent,” says Pyles.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 26, 2016

The TMC channel was a loyal companion during graduate school days at the University of Illinois, offering a comforting black and white backdrop to frequent all-day programming sessions, and today I frequently call on TMC to get me through my daily hour-long treadmill sessions. I'm a big fan of the old movie classics.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Within that tightly knit group, there’s the bank’s leadership team, comprising president and CEO Greg Dennis, chief lending officer Jon Girard, vice president of operations and compliance Kristine Hendrickson, and executive vice president and chief financial officer Michele Boeder. William Atkinson is a writer in Illinois.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one of the largest CUs around, which has been in business since 1930 (before the Great Depression reached its worst depths). Instant payments is an innovation that doesn’t require much explanation. Making Instant Payments a Hit.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. Independent Banker named it one of the most innovative community banks because of its technology-forward attitude. Kennebec Savings Bank.

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