PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

But as is often the case during times of economic turbulence, the costs are being borne the most by Main Street SMBs that have been forced to furlough workers and close their doors (at least temporarily). Restaurants lead the pack among struggling Main Street merchants. business closures.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for small firms’ innovation, with 71.7 A plurality of SMB owners will maintain the digital innovations they have developed to help their firms survive during the pandemic, and many intend to invest in more digital innovations in the future,” the new survey found. So, what happens now?

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. Policy put into place must target Main Street.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2018

While regulations continue to be top of mind for financial institutions, banks have another main concern: the innovations and progress being made by fintechs, according to a survey released by EY.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

A new research institute in Portland, Maine, is intended to electrify the local economy and provide a hub for multiple career fields outside of the major cities that dominate most tech job searches. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

If there’s a playbook for Main Street’s migration to digital, Toronto’s Schulich School of Business is authoring a very effective chapter. In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2019

Automation is the theme that best describes Chesapeake Bank’s innovation roadmap for 2019, Kevin Wood, managing director of the state-chartered community bank’s business lending division, Cash Flow, told Bank Innovation. “One

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Bobsguide

JUNE 3, 2022

Auriga was recently honoured with the prestigious Peter Kulik Innovation Award from the ATMIA, the leading non-profit trade association representing the entire global ATM industry. Q: How do you feel about your Peter Kulik Innovation Award win? Q: Finally, do you have any thoughts on upcoming ATM innovations and trends?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As is often the case with technological innovation, business workers increasingly want the same convenience in their professional lives as they do in their personal lives. ” Opportunity On Main Street. For now, though, the focus on Main Street small businesses will remain, as demand for digitization in this market grows.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2018

In my career to date working for innovative fintechs – including my current role at Finastra – I have had great opportunities to create, build and structure high-performing teams, and have enjoyed every minute of it. One of the main lessons learned is that what really makes teams work is having not just the best […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes the launch of business cards by American Express and Amazon in addition to one by Wyndham Hotel & Resorts and Barclays.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

have much simpler goals than bringing to market an epoch-making innovation. Neither entrepreneur is hoping to disrupt the world with noodles or sandwiches — but both would very much like a chance at disrupting Main Street in their respective towns. But not every entrepreneur in the world has a big idea.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Main Street may not be able to save itself in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Activate will show growth and innovation,” she predicted. “We Economic Development Administration, Moudry led a program to increase investment in innovation clusters across the country. One of those is in Fairfax County, Virginia. At the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 19, 2017

For this episode, host Brett King spoke to some of the main presenters of the recent Innovate Finance Global Summit event.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are some of the main beneficiaries of these innovations, as they become more inclined to look into global eCommerce to add to their in-store sales. Payment providers are offering alternatives to cumbersome and opaque correspondence banking protocols with cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

percent of retailers have said they innovate to improve customer loyalty. That, in fact, is one of the main findings in the new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by FinTech firm AEVI. Things have changed, though, he said — one reason why that innovation finding carries such weight. “I

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The April 2020 New Payment Flows edition of PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Playbook series, a PSCU collaboration, looks into the credit union (CU) space at a pivotal moment: Many concepts, from eating to shopping to traveling and, of course, how we pay, have changed forever. The main reason for that is a members-first mentality.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Innovation has become such a buzzword that it can be applied to countless solutions and initiatives, from emerging 5G mobile technology and the rise of “smart factories” to using blockchain to trace and track food supply chains to deploying kiosks to personalizing the ordering experience. The State of Innovation. points to 19.3,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Main Street businesses are optimistic about their longer-term survival — meaning that they believe their businesses will be around two years from now. That’s important, given the fact that Main Street SMBs are responsible for driving a significant portion of the economy, employing roughly 40 percent of the workforce.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Main Street SMBs: The 18-Month Outlook. Main Street small- to medium-sized businesses’ (SMBs’) confidence of survival has progressed as the pandemic has continued. percent fewer Main Street SMBs are hopeful of survival. percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. The new facility will be in addition to the Amazon Robotics site in North Reading, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Gov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those are some of the common myths of innovation , and they apply to the payments world. Moving past those myths, and finding deeper truths about payments innovation, was the underlying result of a recent PYMNTS webinar, featuring Karen Webster and Amir Wain, founder and CEO of i2c , an integrated commerce and smart payments firm. “

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When IT Becomes a Drag on Innovation. FIs want to innovate – 97 percent of banks and credit unions surveyed told PYMNTS they have focused on innovation over the past three years. Thirty-six percent of FIs say their existing IT infrastructures made payments innovation hard or very hard. So, what’s stopping them?

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Prepaid payments are primed to be the main innovation rail for the Canadian payments market, as developments in automated banking and consumer technology make headway and market size grows. The Canadian prepaid market in 2019 had $3.74

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2017

Eliminating the Cartwheel app may be a learning curve for some consumers because Cartwheel is more popular than the main Target app, TechCrunch reports. The move is the latest in Target’s quest to boost its innovation strategy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Why is innovation for this crucial department often an afterthought, pushed aside in favor of more public-facing priorities, when automated solutions are available that can efficiently onboard customers, reduce errors and eliminate paper-based invoicing systems? Yet these firms were considerably more likely to embrace innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. A new lab store from 7-Eleven underscores the innovation wave that is taking place in the convenience store sector of retail – a sector ripe for change, disruption and growth. stores with the innovation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

It’s a landscape that has created an opportune environment for technological innovation. But how can a five-year-old digital native really stack up against companies that have been operating for decades — or even centuries?

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2019

In today’s digital economy, with shopping as easy as the tap of a finger on a smartphone screen, brick-and-mortar retail businesses have no choice but to innovate to keep and grow their clientele. percent of these businesses view innovation as critical to their survival. More broadly, 44.8 and accommodation firms’ score of 34.1.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s one thing to want to improve or innovate. What’s harder — and what really makes the difference — is figuring how, where and when to innovate, a task that must take into account various factors and even wildcards that keep popping up in the growing and global digital economy and its various ecosystems. B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. But not all innovation labs or tech hubs give rise to seamless tech progression. PYMNTS readers can be forgiven if they view innovation labs (no matter the label) as something that verges on retail fad.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Once again, Sibos was the place to be to discover, discuss and understand how disruptive innovations are transforming the financial services landscape. Looking at the opportunities amidst the disruption, this year’s conference also further explored the evolving relationship and collaboration. Read more.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). Mobile Innovation.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 4, 2020

The main blog headlines are … Are the big banks failing the people? I’ve already seen some incredible innovation from start-ups looking to help those in need. I wouldn’t usually blog on a Saturday, but these are exceptional times and these are exceptional ideas.

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