PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

According to the company, the STEPcom takeover strengthens Descartes’ presence in Switzerland and enhances its B2B toolset around the areas of data pool synchronization, product information management and vendor-managed inventory. ”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

It is thus unsurprising that 95 percent of companies are looking to improve their spend management software this year. Developments in the expense management world are heating up. These six companies are not the only ones looking to challenge SAP Concur, which currently holds the highest market share within the travel expense industry.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. And the retailer ponied up a reported $200 million for pieces of Seattle-based startup CareZone ’s technology, which personalizes prescription drug management for individuals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

In a press release , Starbucks said the new fund, which is being managed by Valor Equity Partners, will identify and invest in companies developing technologies, products and solutions geared toward the food and/or retail markets. The company launched its first store in Seattle in the 1970s.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They might like making cakes and seeing happy customers, but few especially enjoy managing their businesses. “So And as much as there will always be demand for cash from small and middle-market lenders, Steinmetz said it’s important to remember that they’re not charities supporting locally-owned businesses. Innovation Vs. Incumbency.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Amazon is excited to create more tech jobs in San Diego – a city with terrific talent and a culture of innovation,” said Nate Wiger, general manager of Amazon’s new San Diego office, in the press release. “We San Diego is a place where ideas take shape and innovation happens.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

POSaBIT, based in Seattle, already manages millions of transactions for over 120 dispensaries across Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Oklahoma. Even though legal marijuana industry keeps gaining traction — according to one official state estimate, the market in California alone will reach at least $5.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

To connect food delivery platforms with consumers looking for convenience and cost savings, eCommerce innovators are creating aggregators as price and time comparison tools. The Food Delivery Market. FoodBoss is available in markets from Chicago to Washington, D.C., as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The quick-service restaurants (QSRs) that remain are facing a fiercely competitive market as they attempt to cater to consumers whose preferences have changed significantly since the pandemic’s onset. Managing Order Integrity. He said the firm has partnered with two food services platforms to resolve these challenges. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new housecleaning service, Amazon Home Assistants, offers cleaning services in Seattle, with prices determined by the size of the home and the number of visits.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

Ekata Vice President and General Manager, APAC, Tom Donlea had recently moved to Singapore to open new offices when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. In January, I moved to Singapore from Seattle to open Ekata’s new Asia-Pacific office — exactly when this global pandemic started to ramp up. It’s bad, he told PYMNTS, but not all bad.

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Jeannette Kescenovitz, Senior Director, Solution Management, Banking as a Service and Orchestration at Finastra said, “Finastra’s Embedded Consumer Lending solution offers financial institutions a direct route to growth by offering loans via a merchant’s digital point-of-sale.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

Sometimes, though, retailers have to band together to offer similar services to ward off the Seattle giant’s advance into their territory. Steve Oblak, senior vice president and general manager at Wayfair, explained that the strategic partnership with Porch will allow both companies to do more than they ever could alone. “At

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As autumn kicks in, retail trends are playing out that will have an impact on not only the 2019 holiday shopping season, but also commerce innovation in 2020. QSRs are no exception, with AI-powered voice ordering, inventory management and self-service kiosks becoming more commonplace. Delivery also stands as a hot area of innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Country Manager Lars Petersson said, “We recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are.” As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology. restaurants.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Innovations include a Half Dome scent, which the company describes as “signature” and will transport shoppers to the great outdoors. The 8,000 square-foot-store is the first of multiple planned updates to locations for the brand, including Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Seattle, the company said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. Imagr itself reportedly aims to achieve significant penetration in markets across Australia, the U.K., Europe and America by 2022. 22 report by Recode.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Such was the news out of Seattle HQ this week — Amazon is pushing toward fully automating its warehouses, but won’t be hitting that target until sometime next decade. Big Play Of The Week: Walmart Resets Its Store Management Structure. It was a full week that was, as always, full of last-minute developments. Such as … Amazon.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Customers who scan their own groceries aren’t dawdling in a gauntlet of temptations like in the olden days of grocery shopping; they’re in and out of the store as fast as they can possibly manage. Amazon has a cashier-less grocery store, Amazon Go, in beta testing near its Seattle headquarters. No waiting in line.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum , Avalara. The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The degrees include health science, health and wellness and healthcare management/administration, offered through Southern New Hampshire University, Purdue University Global, Wilmington University and Bellevue University. Inspire’s long-term approach, culture of innovation and commitment to helping brands grow set it apart from the rest.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Descartes System Group , a Canadian logistics company with global reach, has acquired ShipRush , a Seattle-based shipping company that connects small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with delivery carriers across the U.S., Mazi Silveira, Descartes’ vice president of global marketing, said the businesses complement each other perfectly.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

In fact, there were a lot of other things to talk about, as Facebook made a major investment in the Indian market, Expedia snapped up $3.2 It’s a major shake-up in an already competitive market, he noted, and will likely raise the stakes in the market and act as a powerful innovation driver.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

.” As usual, Amazon gets high marks for setting a trend that others follow, but the home improvement industry has certainly chosen a good time to collect itself to capture more of the market. If anyone tells you when Amazon enters their space that they were happy, they’re not telling the truth,” Ehrlichman told The Seattle Times.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. But to say that Amazon Go is about innovating checkout is like saying the iPhone innovated the telephone call. Sure, Amazon Go innovates checkout, but if you’re a retailer, that isn’t why you’re curling up in the fetal position right now.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. ” In January 2018, Amazon launched its automated cashier-less Amazon Go store in Seattle. ” Innovation Summit: (N+1) Trends. .

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 2, 2023

These the biggest and best events in the financial services space geared towards technologists, product managers, developers, marketers and C-Suite execs at both financial institutions and rival fintech firms. Below is our curated list of top fintech, banktech, payment tech, investech global conferences for 2023. 100+ speakers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. Edgewater Markets. HQ: Seattle, WA. Credit management tools. Real estate investing management platform for consumers. Automated lending solutions for financial institutions. Front Desk.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TD has been a player that maintained its acquired market share so we are hoping this one doesn’t get messed up like other Canadian banks that have struggled in the Southwest. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. To date Katerra has had $1.3B

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2016

Summer used to be a slower time of the year, but in this fast-paced world called payments and commerce innovation, there’s no rest for the weary, at least not for those who don’t want to be irrelevant a few years from now. As in not at all – and by their account. I believe that’s unprecedented.”. Ahh the magic of “groupthink.”

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