Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Bank of the West recently added 143 ATMs across the Denver and Sacramento metro areas through an agreement with ATM operator Cardtronics. The San Francisco-based bank said it has tripled the number of cash access locations for its customers in Denver, to 151, and nearly quadrupled the number of those locations […].

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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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based bank disclosed the plan in a job posting today. Wells Fargo & Co. will add additional enterprise-level digital capabilities, APIs, and SDKs to its Home Lending platform. The additional APIs and SDKs should allow more integrations with other technology services and applications.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 17, 2016

SigFig, a San Francisco-based robo advisor, partnered with UBS Wealth Management to create and customize digital tools for WMA’s 7,000 advisors, it was announced today. The tools will “complement” the existing expertise of UBS advisors, and not form a separate automated platform, SigFig said.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2018

For the task, San Francisco-based Bento raised $9 million in a new round of funding today. Bento for Business wants to provide its customers with money management tools combined with banking solutions, similar to the personal financial management app for millennials, MoneyLion, according to company CEO Farhan Ahmad.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Autolist is based in San Francisco, and the terms of the deal were not revealed. Like CarGurus, Autolist is a tech-centric online auto shopping provider,” Jeremy Sacco, CarGurus’ director of B2B content and communications, wrote in a blog post. PistonHeads also still operates under its own brand name. “We

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. Several companies have stepped up this week with some innovative remote solutions. The first is Perfect.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

The RealReal operates four stores, two in New York and one each in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The company also sells online, with inventory from designers who are unloading goods and individual sellers who consign high-end fashion apparel.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

The new look is getting its first public viewing in San Francisco’s Union Square. And while much of that is standard operating procedure for retailers running after the customized in-store experience, the trees are unique and very Apple. We didn’t want it to feel like a store.

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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. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. Fleets As The Fuel.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Zippin, a cashierless convenience store, launched last year, also in San Francisco, with the goal of reducing typically long lines. Notably, the store now takes cash since San Francisco banned cashless businesses. “We Operators also might have overlooked the value of customer service for shoppers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

No less than Sam’s Club, Starbucks and fashion high-flyer Zara have made adjustments to online ordering and purchasing. The announcement comes after Inditex saw a 95 percent surge in online sales for the month of April alone. The answer: fewer stores and a more concerted push online.”. Zara’s announcement was the most dramatic.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2016

In an effort to track product and service efficiency, as well as tease and test possible features of the future, Wells Fargo has launched Digital Express, a pilot program exclusive to its Transbay Gateway store in downtown San Francisco. Within, a section of the lobby displays tablets on a table which confronts customers Read More.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The DEO “seeks concepts and an operator to program the space to boost innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrate creative placemaking and feature the Made in Fairfax Network. The law opens up much more territory to these operations, which had only been permitted in areas zoned for industry. and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

The San Francisco-based Credible Labs gives Fox a footing in personal lending as it seeks new investments following the $71 billion sale of its entertainment assets to Disney in 2018. This company is operating in a very large market and has the potential to do really well.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. Not only have retail sales shifted online, but more consumers are buying more of what they want directly from the brand. DoorDash Moves Ahead With Q4 IPO Plans. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The need for food delivery keeps pushing the edge of retail innovation – and could even lead to crowding on sidewalks and competing for room with pedestrians and rented scooters – as Postmates plans to test delivery robots in San Francisco. The grocer, along with Nuro, had been using a fleet of Prius cars with operators.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

is expanding in Chicago as it targets both brick-and-mortar and online expansion. The Vancouver, British Columbia–based company already operates a store in the Windy City, at Water Tower Place. At the end of its fiscal year 2017 (February 26, 2017), Aritzia operated 60 stores in Canada and 19 stores in the United States.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

As an example, Ocado, Britain’s leading online grocer, has had to stress-test an experimental program to automate its warehouses. Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. The robotic rise can be seen in two key areas: fulfillment and in-store.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

Just take the recent story of Three Babes Bakeshop in San Francisco. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company reportedly owes tens of thousands of dollars to its food suppliers, many of which are small businesses, and some of which told reporters they were never warned by Munchery of its plans to shut down. Tabs and Cash.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Linking financial institutions and corporates with its Banking-as-a-Service platform, ONPEX enables FIs to deploy cloud-based account and payment technology to digitize operations and enhance their cross-border corporate payment offerings. Also operating in the enterprise security space is Cequence Security, based in California.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

We’re partnering with Gusto because we have a shared vision for building innovative new solutions that help small businesses and accountants thrive in the new economy,” Xero Americas President Keri Gohman said in a press release. The partnership will allow Xero to deliver full-service payroll in all 50 U.S. states for the first time.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

A test site in San Francisco will be constructed; the goal is to open in early 2020, CNBC said. Electrify America is planning a network of nearly 3,000 chargers online across the U.S. It has 450 charging stations currently in operation, according to the company’s website.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Westfield Corporation , which operates 32 gigantic shopping malls across America, has announced a partnership with advertising giant R/GA and 10 startups in hopes they will “grow innovative commerce and retail ideas.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The combination of Service Cloud Voice and the Amazon Connect solution aim to speed up call resolution while streamlining operations, allowing businesses to provide a powerful customer experience. 19-22 in San Francisco and New York City. The new services were announced at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference Nov.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Further proof of that came recently from a young company based in San Francisco called Castle , which helps eCommerce operators such as Touch of Modern and Rue La La to defend against that type of fraud. Fraud Prevention Innovation. That increasing risk is driving innovation, as PYMNTS has also documented.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. The cloud-based software platform is designed to do a good deal of operational heavy lifting for salons by automating areas like customer records, inventory, financial reporting and other tasks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

Those who prophesied the death of brick-and-mortar retail in favor of online alternatives may have been premature. Sure, merchants without an online presence are largely sinking or already sunk. Hema’s 13 stores, based primarily in Shanghai and Beijing, operate on a hybrid online/offline model. Amazon has seen it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Kroger operates nearly 2,800 supermarket chains nationwide, including Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Food 4 Less and its namesake Kroger stores. Customers are making purchases on the site at a higher frequency than before and [are] spending more per online order.”. And households that transact with us online spend even more.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Staples announced on Tuesday (June 14) that it had officially launched its “Staples Rush” program that provides same-day delivery service to a handful of metropolitan areas, including parts of Boston, Dallas and Manhattan, with Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to come.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Starbucks has been forced to radically adapt its operations to remain relevant in a landscape that’s looking increasingly like it will be forever altered. It also had plans to bring 300 new stores online in the current fiscal 2020, although that was about half the number planned at the year’s start. Riding the Roller Coaster.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By 2022, the projected value of the online delivery market is projected to reach $55 billion. The Whole Pie.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

But then there are innovators who tempt us with their new ways of doing things. And in an innovation-intense environment, more is usually more — and out of step and out of date are just as good as broken. Rolling out with Stripe’s in-store and online improvements are Warby Parker and Glossier. percent fee when sold online.

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