PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

There’s a rule of thumb at fast food and quick-serve restaurants (QSR): a seven-second reduction in customer wait time results in an average 1 percent gain in market share. Not to be outdone, famed chef Daniel Boulud is opening his own tech-centric QSR with four Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Anne Tangen, a bank IT expert-turned-CEO at BankFive in Fall River, Massachusetts, talks about BankFive's efforts to reduce friction in the account opening process, as well as her work to smooth the path for talented women in the community bank C-suite.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Great news for innovative retailers. The self-checkout system market is expected to increase from its current value of $2 billion to more than $4 billion by 2024, according to a new study. Retailers can also be hit with painful chargebacks, and card issuers are liable for in-store purchases. Less so for cashiers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2019

In other news, Singapore’s Chief FinTech Officer of the Monetary Authority said that while blockchain has potential for cross-border payments, the agency “does not see much” in retail bank digital currencies. The design phase is underway, with testing to begin in Q2/Q3 2019. will be joining Ripple’s board of directors. “I

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

cities this year, with big brands testing retail concepts “in real life” with temporary spaces. And, in some cases, brick-and-mortar retailers brought these concepts to their sales floors with their own takes on pop-up shops. Pop-up shops welcomed consumers in malls and major U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

The warehouse club retailer also said that it plans for each share to be issued in a range between $15 to $17, leading to a market cap topping $2.15 It was stated that the deal could value the Westborough, Massachusetts-based, membership-only warehouse chain somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion. million shares.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

The credit card company and retail wholesaler announced on Tuesday (Aug. 2) that they are running a contest to reward shoppers who pay with Mastercard credit, debit or prepaid cards at BJ’s locations in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The prize? Maripi Jalandoni, EVP of U.S. ”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

With the help of connected car technology, the morning and evening commutes are no longer just a time for consumers to drive to and from work: These periods of the day between home and work life are also becoming a time where retailers can engage shoppers in contextual commerce experiences. More than three in 10 commuters — or 33.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

and Massachusetts (Yucesoy v. Uber also agreed to help establish “a driver’s association” in California and Massachusetts, with funding coming from the company to sustain the group’s activities. Late Thursday (April 21), an answer came down that sits somewhere in between those two outcomes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Waltham, Massachusetts-based eCommerce solutions company Yottaa has made a big splash in the commerce space in the past few years. Its SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce has been picked up by major retailers, including Puma, eBags, King Arthur Flour, Jo-Ann Fabric and Moosejaw, to name a few. Think back a few years ago.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. Massachusetts already has a law requiring cash acceptance. So where were those moves, and where did everyone end up? Cashless Coup.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The item became a national phenomenon due to a widespread belief in its superior taste and a viral marketing campaign highlighting its availability on Sundays, unlike the offerings of competitor Chick-fil-A. market, attributed the shortage to a vast underestimation of demand. “We Felipe Athayde, Popeye’s president for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

has been slow, particularly compared to other markets like the U.K. Massachusetts’ Berkshire Bank is one of them. Adoption of real-time payments in the U.S. The assumption, of course, is that faster payment functionality only has a place in the peer-to-peer payments arena. to connect corporates directly to the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2017

And it was into this market that Jade Lai launched Creatures of Comfort, a boutique fashion brand that asks a unique question. With a bonnet and perhaps some buckle shoes, a wearer could quite literally blend any place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antebellum period and not seem out of place.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

From up-and-coming players like Beautycounter and Glossier to more prominent companies like Estee Lauder and Clinique, the beauty market is increasingly oversaturated with both old and new options. We do that by focusing on integration between eCommerce sites, social media and marketing efforts, and the stores and boutiques we own.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. The purpose was to identify SMB owners who were planning to use innovative tactics to grow, then provide financial support as well as expert guidance to drive that growth. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

It’s a market that is estimated to be worth $55 billion in the next five years, according to the PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. Here’s how QSRs are integrating mobile order-ahead technology into their stores and where the innovation is headed in the future. — million active members. There was a 50 percent increase in U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

It delivers to homes and businesses in 24 metro markets and has more than 200 pickup locations. Launching ‘Ask Peapod’ on Alexa was a natural innovation for Peapod as we continue to create real meal solutions that fit into normal at-home behaviors,” said de Merode. “We Put them together and what do you get?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

When the pilgrims landed in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1620, there was no voice of Siri to say, “Arrived.” Here’s how innovation, marketing and technology have shaped this iconic American holiday over the years. What made it stick was (if we may retrofit a modern term) the right marketing. Making It a Holiday at All.

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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. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Source: Crunchbase.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s heavily regulated, only customers of a certain age can buy it – and the sale of it is governed by a three-tiered system wherein producers can only sell to wholesalers, who can only sell to retailers, who are the only ones allowed to sell to consumers. Merchant Partners . Bringing In The Customers.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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CB Insights

JULY 30, 2017

Clearly tech and auto companies stand to gain, but many other industries could face serious upheavals unless they are able to adapt to the many changes self-driving cars will bring to the market. Brick and Mortar Retail. Auto repairs . Fewer accidents will also mean fewer trips to the body shop. Driving schools.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As India’s IT companies shift their strategies to seek new lines of business and markets, they’re upping their M&A and investment activity, in an attempt to absorb innovation and close the gap so as not to be left behind. By market cap, HCL Technologies is the fourth most valuable IT company in India.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Until quite recently, the “in” part has been — and still is — marked by long lines at the convenience store or other brick-and-mortar retail locations, with dollar bills plunked down in an effort to play granddad’s birthday numbers for what might be the cash windfall of a lifetime. One company is striving to transform that retail experience.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

history, but a part of global economic development stretching back centuries: First comes innovation, then comes growth based on that innovation (not just economic, but cultural and other forms of growth), then comes the regulatory backlash. It’s a process that stands not only as a familiar feature of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

WHAT DO HILLBILLIES HAVE TO DO WITH PAYMENTS INNOVATION? As important as that work is, discussing this social and public policy agenda isn’t why I was intrigued by Vance and his book — nor why I asked him to join me on stage on March 15, 2017, at the Innovation Project. THE WORKING AND MIDDLE CLASS IN THE U.S. 01 percent a year.

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