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). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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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

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

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Managing credit risk used to be a reactive process. Bank customers would fall behind on their payments, and their banks might react by imposing fees or having a case manager work with them to bring their accounts back up to speed. In severe cases, banks might have to take the drastic measure of closing accounts altogether.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. Fellow fast food chain KFC , meanwhile, is adding automation to its kitchen operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. More Innovation. Such desire for speed is also helping to drive innovation in other forms of gambling-related payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The pain points that accounts receivable (AR) teams most commonly experience can be boiled down to three underlying and related problems: continued reliance on manual AR management practices, and the resulting lack of speed and high operating costs associated with managing receivables.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From the back-office bean counter to the overseer of cybersecurity and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, the modern corporate treasury has undergone an extreme makeover in recent years that goes well beyond its historic roots in cash management. The other is technological innovation. managing director at Melissa, told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Mark Aquilina was named the senior vice president of product and strategy of corporate payment solutions and will be in charge of product strategy and management for front-end applications and cloud-native processors. In addition, Dylan Jones will move from payments strategy operations leader to VP of operations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Among PingPong’s sellers, the fact that the outbreak was caught between the Chinese New Year and spring festival celebrations meant there were already significant inventory build-ups going into the season, which managed to absorb many of the supply chain and production issues. An Opportunity for Innovation .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Our research revealed that operating costs, manual processes and process speed are the top three AR challenges. percent of firms in advertising see manual errors as the main problem faced by their AR department. We also found that 44.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

In other news, European FinTech SIA is partnering with WizKey to create a platform to allow credit negotiations on blockchain for banks, financial operators and funds, according to a press release. Diokno, Philippines’ Central Bank (BSP) governor in the release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Some QSRs’ already-thin operating margins have been stretched beyond the breaking point as budget-conscious consumers shy away from eating out, forcing the eateries to declare bankruptcy. Restaurants and quick-service restaurants ( QSRs ) are used to stiff competition, but the ongoing pandemic has kicked it into an even higher gear.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The firm’s main competition is Swiss food and beverage mega-conglomerate Nestlé. Pret A Manger has been in operation since opening its first London store in 1986. Pret A Manger has been in operation since opening its first London store in 1986. billion) and operates 530 stores in countries including the United States and China.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

But with new restaurants also come new or expanded digital initiatives – part of the overall trend, documented by PYMNTS research, of QSRs getting smarter about eCommerce and mobile tech, even as restaurant managers and customers often have differing views about which service and payments innovations work best. Mobile Ordering.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

It is a lot of paperwork, trueing up ledgers, figuring out payroll and on the whole, managing the basic blocking and tackling mechanics that are the administrative side of every SMB. With the data collected, the assistant fills out IRS form SS-4 and then manages the filing process.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Determining a company’s main motivation is especially important since the lines between payments monetization and customer experience continue to blur. Uber, after all, may have dozens of people staffing the payments side of the operations, but smaller firms simply do not have comparable resources.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sage X3 is designed specifically for medium-sized businesses, the release stated, offering financial operational management in a quick, simple manner. Phalen said one of the main points of friction is the paper check, which still has a hold in the B2B space despite the rise of rails that can move payments quickly and easily.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending is one of those situations and banks have started to experiment with it, taking P2P lending to main street. For example in Argentina it was the first P2P lender to operate with the approval of the regulator, under a trust structure where Afluenta administers the trust and the money is out of its estate.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

That’s the question Brian Dorchester, EVP of Operations at First American Payment Systems , explored in this week’s Commanders In Chief series. The industry, he noted, was fairly stagnant for about 15 years before the more recent wave of innovation swept over the space. Security comes first, said Dorchester.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

That’s why payments innovation isn’t just about delivering a solution, but delivering one that can create efficiency and reduce risk in a secure manner. Another challenging area that any CIO has is managing the budget and ensuring that anything spent in the IT area provides a return on investment and helps meet our goals.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 3, 2019

To thwart cybercriminals and meet regulatory requirements while also managing costs, institutions should consider adopting a centrally managed platform and related services to create a consistent and scalable control framework. Three pillars of cyber risk management on the cloud.

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Cisco

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And best of all, your developers would have time and flexibility to innovate instead of chasing alerts. Streamline your operations: Will you be enabling developers to deploy infrastructure on demand? How will developers manage container platforms across multiple clouds? What KPIs will you use to baseline and measure success?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. Substitute producer for buyer or supplier. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Or that, on average, 15 percent of an FI’s annual operating costs go toward maintaining core banking systems that are outmoded? From global customer acquisition efforts to real-time personalization of the user experience to infrastructure technology management, the opportunities are endless.”. Cloudy, With A Chance of Innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

“I think what COVID has done is put a bright spotlight on how hard it is to manage [healthcare] capacity and how easily a system that is operating on the edge of capacity can get overwhelmed,” Giridharadas said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. The iQueue software is its main product. Rigorous Math Vs. Calendar Gazing.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers 8. A quick look at top banking podcasts worth a listen, according to Abrigo : 1.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Here we have summarized the main takeaways from the session. He does not expect this trend to stop but we are seeing some interesting innovations from student housing and lodging operators around college campuses. . Credit Risk Management. From CRE to Corporate Culture – BIG Ideas from 2020 ThinkBIG: Manage Risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

He will also be the main contact person for the regulatory agencies tasked with oversight of Visa in the more than 200 countries in which it operates. Before that, Fabara worked at Barclays Bank as global chief operating officer for Barclaycard. He also worked as chief operating officer, card services, at Alliance Data Systems.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The attendees had a combined experience of over 300 years across analytics, credit risk and operations across Europe, UK, the Middle East and Southern Africa. This crisis has been unique, due to the dynamics of virtual operating models and in the spending patterns for those affected financially by the crisis and those not.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Competition for customers — especially millennials — from larger banks and FIs has long required credit unions to keep pace with their more innovative counterparts. This often means providing digital solutions and convenient banking options despite smaller technology and innovation budgets, however.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

For the new B2B Payments Innovation Readiness Playbook: Adapting to Cash Flow Challenges Posed by the Pandemic , a PYMNTS and American Express collaboration, researchers surveyed over 2,200 treasury executives from small to large businesses across several verticals. The new B2B Payments Innovation Readiness Playbook study finds that “63.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Innovation is certainly playing an increasing role among QSRs, but the gaps between what consumers expect and what managers seem to want (and are comfortable with) are still significant. percent of QSR managers had confidence in QSR apps, in contrast to 90.9 Additionally, only 62.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic — and the resulting push for consumers to stay home and practice social distancing — has prompted many restaurants to halt table service and put new focus on eateries’ abilities to manage and fulfill delivery orders. Bamboo Asia Develops Inventory Management System To Coordinate Restaurant Supplies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. For other companies, GDPR is the main concern as they move to expand operations within Europe.

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