Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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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

MARCH 3, 2020

It is thus unsurprising that 95 percent of companies are looking to improve their spend management software this year. Companies are thus looking to technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help mitigate this. Developments in the expense management world are heating up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What are hiring managers doing, and how is it reflective of the broader economy? Retailers, health care and technology consultants enjoyed the largest employment gains, said analysts, while manufacturers saw a 4,000 cut in jobs last month. presidential election. 59% of U.S. According to CBIZ, there was a 0.82 percent.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

One Medical , a conglomerate of technology-driven primary care offices backed by Google’s Alphabet , has filed an initial public offering (IPO), One Medical announced on Friday (Jan. One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.”

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ultimately, senior management and the Board disagreed on strategy,” Diller said. Earlier this year, Expedia embarked on an ambitious reorganization plan with the goal of bringing our brands and technology together in a more efficient way. Diller and Kern will address employees about the shakeup at a town hall meeting in Seattle on Dec.

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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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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hot embers continue to glow in the fintech market that GonzoBanker mothership Cornerstone Advisors serves. Some perspective on how fast this fintech market is moving: Fintech Labs tracks 269 $1B+ valued fintech unicorns that have been founded in just the past two decades. According to CB Insights, US fintechs raised $14.6B

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

Walmart has purchased CareZone, a health services technology company that promises to manage prescription drugs for customers and simplify the ordering and payment process. The the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for the Seattle-based tech startup. Ride-Hailing Firm Grab Cuts Staff.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The program makes Alaska Air the first airline in North America to trial the technology as an inflight entertainment device. I’m really excited to see this technology onboard. Alaska Airlines announced that is partnering with French company SkyLights to pioneer a new virtual reality (VR) headset for its first-class passengers.

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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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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

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. And Amazon also told employees in Seattle, Bellevue and the San Francisco Bay Area to telecommute if they have the ability to through the conclusion of March.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Because the site filters out different options for the consumer, he noted the user is “a very strong, qualified candidate to complete that order,” compared to other marketing channels. 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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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

DECEMBER 27, 2019

But digital technology and the sharing economy, already the disrupters of so much, are now challenging the status quo when it comes to corporate housing. The company is based in San Francisco and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Perhaps a fancy hotel downtown.

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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.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure. But it is possible to gain control and establish a proactive foundation of well governed, compliant security upon which these cloud projects can be built and managed. Explore IBM Banking and Financial Markets Solutions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

In Seattle, Amazon is reportedly opening its tenth bookstore operation. “We We are excited to be bringing Amazon Books to Bellevue Square in 2017, and we are currently hiring store managers and associates,” an Amazon spokesperson told Recode. The bookstores also act as marketing tools for Amazon Prime memberships.

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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 Amazon said the expansion will enable it to more than double its tech workforce in the area.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The supply chain arms race is as competitive as it’s ever been,” said Adam Mullen, CBRE’s senior managing director of industrial and logistics, Americas. It’s also a race for the best technology – in large part, a race to deploy the best, most efficient robots in eCommerce fulfillment operations. Take Ocado , a U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2017

According to news from Small Business Trends , with Amazon’s Echo holding more than 70 percent of the voice-controlled speaker market, users and businesses will want to integrate the technology to improve their operations. With that in mind, Amazon wants to give startups the skill sets they need to do just that.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In the last twelve months alone, China has seen over 30 dockless bike-sharing startups enter the fray — though that particular market is currently dominated by two large competitors in the space — Ofo and Mobike. In Seattle, it was an interesting experience. Dockless bikes solve that pain point.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

According to a release , Microsoft chose KIND to create Microsoft Health and Human Services Pod for Managed Service Providers. Ultimately, that goal was to to provide states, counties and municipalities with solutions for track-and-trace (‘seed to sale’ in the cannabis industry) technology. However, Seattle is marijuana-welcoming.

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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. The technology has Qualcomm chips and eye-tracking input from Tobii.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Oberthur Technologies (OT) is partnering with payments service provider Nets to deliver support for mobile payments to Scandinavian banks. This week, Karen Webster looked at how companies like Google, Apple and Amazon are using voice-powered technology , like Siri or Alexa, to drive commerce. Mobile Nordic Future.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Rowe Price Associates. Uber’s Move.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

12) that it is partnering with Instacart in four test markets. It could put the Bentonville crew within striking distance of pretty much the whole country for grocery delivery – and could add some needed user-friendly technology to Walmart’s online grocery efforts. Walmart made the announcement on Wednesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

With Amazon , Kroger and other large retailers in the grocery business introducing digital technology, such as mobile self-checkout, how do smaller regional grocers compete? The Market. These retailers may not have fully tapped into the potential of digital technology, after all. Neren said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The message, which The Wall Street Journal said it viewed, noted that workers are seeking to “collectively voice [their] concerns to Whole Foods Market and Amazon leadership.”. The spokesperson also said that employees at the grocer are reassured that they can talk to their managers about concerns in the workplace.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The company, which demoed at FinovateSpring 2013 as BBC Easy, will use the fresh capital for both product development as well as increasing its market reach in North America. “Harnessing the power of technology to automate the exchange of financial information between parties is transformative,” he said.

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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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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. In the current form, the technology is very limited. Big Play Of The Week: Walmart Resets Its Store Management Structure. Such as … Amazon.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

All in, that means in 2019-– about five years after Alexa and the Amazon Echo made their first appearances on commercial markets – roughly 10 percent of consumers have used voice-activated devices to shop. QSRs are no exception, with AI-powered voice ordering, inventory management and self-service kiosks becoming more commonplace.

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