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OCTOBER 17, 2017

EXCLUSIVE — Spanish banks, along with certain Spanish telecommunication companies, have come together to establish a national network based on blockchain. The consortium is called Alastria.

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JULY 19, 2017

But the most significant revelation from the company’s earnings call yesterday may be that digital banking allows any bank to become national. Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is making a significant digital push this quarter, and highlighted a number of areas this is benefiting the bank’s consumer business.

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MARCH 12, 2020

According to The National Development and Reform Commission, by the end of February, more than 60 percent of the country’s logistics companies had returned to work. An Opportunity for Innovation . As the situation evolves, Wang told Webster, the innovative responses are doing the same. billion RMB ($6.4

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. Self-service kiosks have been gaining popularity, and cutting-edge technology like biometrics is starting to be integrated. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. While stores were closed, Fleet Feet saw tremendous growth in its online business. Fleet Feet has come up with proprietary technology to address that.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. When a consumer places an order by voice, it comes through the same ordering channel that an online or mobile order would.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

The good news, said Carter, fresh off her most recent trip to the National Retail Federation (NRF), is that merchants and are very well aware that retail — and the role of physical retail in it — is changing. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation . The answer, she noted, is complex.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

In the inaugural Digital Banks And The Power Of The Cloud Tracker® , PYMNTS examines how cloud-based tools are becoming part of banks’ digital transformations worldwide and how they are overcoming obstacles that can come with implementing these technologies. Developments Around The Cloud Banking World. The bank has designated $3.7

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Apple is still the most valuable company in the nation, but it’s worth $430 billion less than it was two months ago – primarily, analysts say, because of concerns that the new iPhones arrived too late, per news on Nov. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

According to the Making Instant Pay Global Playbook , public utility companies are innovating their payment methods to include online and mobile options to meet consumer demand and stay competitive. Like Southern Company Gas, National Grid also wanted to build a mobile payment app but was held back by legacy infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Mostly because that is where innovations tend to get their start — ridesharing, delivery on demand, one-day shipping, buy-online pick up in-store, experimental experiential retail locations, pop-up shops and the list goes on (and on). But what every big digital upgrade of the last decade or so has in common is an urban home base. “Our

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Between $800 billion and $2 trillion USD is laundered each year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and fraudsters undoubtedly hope to raise those amounts. AML and the problem of innovation. Starting an innovation battle can be more difficult than expected for banks, in part because of how U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

And as marijuana becomes less the exciting and elicit provenance of hardcore Grateful Dead fans and everyone’s burnout cousin and becomes more the provenance of mainstream customers, a problem is beginning to surface in the cannabis market, according to Socrates Rosenfeld, cofounder and CEO of Jane Technologies. Payments is a complex topic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

Small businesses (SMBs) prefer not to seek funding to finance their innovative endeavors, according to new research from BMO Wealth Management , which suggests SMBs are missing out on opportunities to drive growth. 1 necessity for an entrepreneur’s innovative initiatives. National Head of Wealth Planning Tania Slade in a statement.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Equifax has inked a deal to purchase artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fraud prevention and digital identity technology provider Kount for $640 million. As digital migration accelerates, managing authentication and online fraud while optimizing the consumer's experience has become one of our customers' top challenges,” Equifax CEO Mark W.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

consumers in these geographies are quickly opening up lucrative possibilities for global merchants thanks to the availability of lower-cost smartphones and wireless broadband, the ongoing adoption of eCommerce and the move on the part of many countries to innovative their national payments infrastructure.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Between 2015 and 2017, the amount of lending to small businesses by the five leading online lending providers increased 50 percent, according to a new report from NDP Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based The report, entitled “The Economic Benefits of Online Lending to Small Businesses and the U.S. based economic research firm.

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MAY 15, 2018

In a landscape that’s fast evolving to match the needs of tech-savvy customers, credit unions are innovating to compete with larger commercial banks and FinTech firms to attract and retain customers. The National Council of Firefighter Credit Unions (NCOFCU) agreed to work with web design firm OMNICOMMANDER. You can’t be afraid of it.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Many banks braced themselves for an oncoming surge in the number of consumers accessing their financial accounts online or via mobile banking apps, but safely and seamlessly providing that access remained tricky for many in the space. The Tracker also analyzes how the use of cloud technology can help FIs stay on top of that shift.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. French retail giant Carrefour SA has also been testing camera and image-recognition technology in grocery stores.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (QSR) word, mobile order-ahead. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are trading the experience of sitting down in a booth or at a table for the convenience of having their meals arrive at their doors with mobile technology that provides access to a variety of menu items with a few taps in the digital age. The share of restaurants with in-house mobile ordering capabilities is 18 percent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

11), the finance ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands said they asked the executive branch of the European Union (EU), the agency responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the EU’s 27 nations, to prohibit stablecoins until oversight challenges had been addressed, Reuters reported.

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JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. The COVID-19 crisis has been a catalyst for RON adoption in the United States,” Schlimmer said in an interview with PYMNTS.

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JUNE 16, 2017

For the Chinese buyer in particular, social media engagement and online shopping activities takes on a unique avenue. Unveiled at Asia’s CES event last week, the Consumer Technology Assn.’s The research also showed that there are stark differences in the amount of online shopping between Chinese and American shoppers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. But not all QSR chains are so focused.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

In the midst of these struggles, the payments industry has risen to the occasion and innovated to become an even more integral part of the economy and people’s lives. Whether through digital payments for grocery runs or donations to local and national causes, consumers have embraced payments as a tool to support their day-to-day goals.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Payments Innovation Alliance, a membership group that includes financial institutions (FIs) and payment providers, has released “ Voice Payments: An Introduction and Overview ,” designed to deliver information on conversational payments and enabling technologies, including voice assistants and smart speakers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank client preferences have moved toward self-service technologies over branch visits in recent years because of ease of use and improved convenience. Super Bowl Countdown Brings New Online Gambling Action.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The deals sometimes concerned big players, including “some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world (e.g. one of the biggest payments processors in the world, one of the top 3 banks in Brazil, one of the big four banks in Australia, the largest national card processor in Europe, and several others),” according to the release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Research confirms that QSR patrons are seeking multiple online and offline ordering methods. These innovations have revolutionized diners’ experiences and transformed the purchasing process. McDonald’s purchased California-based voice recognition startup Apprente last year, with plans to eventually implement the technology at its U.S.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

Figure Technologies , which works in blockchain-based finance tech transformations, has worked with J.P. This will mark Figure’s fifth online financing facility, in which the company has closed almost $1.5 Morgan and closed a $100 million financing facility to help with conforming and jumbo mortgages, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). Europe’s fast-growing online economy has been fueled by the shift to online purchases as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

At a time of increased consumer use and acceptance of the new COVID-era digital lifestyle, the pressure is mounting on large, legacy lenders to accelerate their innovations – or become obsolete. To be fair, it’s not as if banks have been ignoring the technological shift. We've got to do more of it.”.

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MAY 19, 2020

Inmar Intelligence , one of the leaders in digital couponing, reported last week that enrollment in digital coupon programs among the top 30 percent of national grocery chains has grown 93 percent year over year since March 1. Digital coupon redemption in March increased 56.5 percent industry-wide year over year.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Money laundering has always troubled financial institutions, but today’s digital banking system creates additional complexities as fraudsters around the world take advantage of financial technologies to launder approximately $2 trillion annually. AML Strategies and Innovation Quirks.

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