PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

The deal’s terms were not available, but Morgan Creek has $1 billion in assets under management (AUM). Ford Global Technologies, LLC was awarded a patent for “vehicle-to-vehicle cooperation to marshal traffic.” And Ford wants to give crypto some wheels, CoinDesk reported. Pink Ribbon, ICO, Across Platforms, Inc., SparkCo, Inc.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The software might spy on an employee’s activity to steal his or her passwords to burrow deeper into the bank’s network and ATM management system. But Phil VanMeerhaeghe, security engineer at Kansas City-based 10-D Security, recommends taking further steps to isolate ATM management systems altogether.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2019

Ikea is going deeper into the Internet of Things (IoT), furthering its investment in smart home technology and products, TechCrunch reported on Saturday (Aug. This is the biggest new business we are establishing since the introduction of Children’s Ikea,” Peter van der Poel, Manager Ikea Range & Supply said in a news release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

People’s United Bank Senior Vice President of Treasury Management Cris Sigovitch told PYMNTS that while access to payables FinTech solutions is important, perhaps even more essential is access to a trusted partner that can guide firms toward a resilient and future-proof AP department. ” Offering the Right Tools. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

Eximchain , a blockchain-based platform developed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab, has raised $20 million for its supply chain financing solution. Supply chain finance and management are some of the largest targets of blockchain innovators today.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Take its partnership with Surfly, which uses technology to personalize and innovate digital interactions in real-time cut call times from 30 to 60 minutes down to five minutes per call. Rockland Trust had more than 57,000 logins and 500 to 600 conversations at its soft launch, managed seamlessly through Agent IQ’s platform.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

the cloud platform for insurance , raised $20 million in venture capital funding from AXA Strategic Ventures, the VC arm of AXA, and MassMutual Ventures, the VC arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life. s management team and the company’s next-generation SaaS technology platform,” said Alex Scherbakovsky, general partner at AXA Strategic Ventures.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Blockchain supply chain management company Eximchain is collaborating with YOOSourcing to enhance supplier risk management. The partnership enhances Eximchain’s current offering of a blockchain solution that uses smart contracts and tokens to enhance supply chain management and connectivity between buyers and suppliers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution. Introducing new store technology to 7-Eleven employees first has proven to be a very productive way to test and learn before launching to a wider audience.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

Maxine Waters of California said the merger, the largest in the sector since the financial crisis, may be “too big to manage.”. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts pointed to the fact as many as 740 branches of the banks are within two miles of one another — and he raised concerns about branch closings and job losses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

The funding also included participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and Wellington Management. financial institutions, as well as leading healthcare, insurance, technology and retail companies. Payfone serves six of the top 10 U.S.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2017

Palantir Technologies and WeWork , both valued at $20B, are tied for third. New York ranks second with 15, followed by Massachusetts and Illinois with five each. After California, New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois, the next-highest unicorn populations are found in Utah (with four) and Florida (with three). YTD 7/25/17).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Google’s Australia and New Zealand managing director, Maile Carnegie, was poached by ANZ Banking Group to act in its newly created group executive digital banking role starting in July, Reuters reported Tuesday (March 1).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

PYMNTS recently spoke with Demian Wendrow, owner of London Harness, a leather goods store in Wellesley, Massachusetts, about how his store is turning to PaaS solutions to enhance the customer shopping experience through efficient EMV chip readers and customer loyalty programs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In Illinois, and a handful of other states, changes in how employees are reimbursed for business-related expenses herald changes on a broader scale, and in how firms use technology to make sure that expenses are being recorded accurately.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

The colleges working on the project — with the backing of Pantera Capital, a hedge fund — are based in the United States, and include Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California at Berkeley. DTR is targeting mechanisms that will let merchants convert Unit-e into fiat without friction.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Collectively, these startups have raised over $9.5B, with leading companies including lending startup Avant (Illinois, $655M in total disclosed equity funding), next-gen auto insurer Root Insurance (Ohio, $509M), restaurant finances management system Toast (Massachusetts, $503M), and small business lending startup Kabbage (Georgia, $490M).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Mastercard has grown its Digital-First Card Program in North America as demand rises for digitally-driven money management offerings. Massachusetts-based accounts payable (AP) automation technology firm MineralTree Inc. Mastercard Expands Digital Card Program To Include Instant Access, eWallet . Time on Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

The premise is a simple one, where packages come to a designated location — the locker — and the resident is notified via technology of a delivery. The problem a streamlined retrieval process (aided by technology) seeks to solve is a glaring and growing one. A code is used to gain access to that locker and retrieve the package.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This is why solar installation company Borrego Solar Systems is managing expenses with payment cards instead. Tom Skraby, the company’s vice president of finance, explained that expense management company Bento’s payment cards have helped its field-based workers avoid work-related expenses and kept projects moving.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

The logistics IT center is slated for downtown Minneapolis and will reportedly create 100 new technology focused full-time positions. Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

But Bottomline Technologies, which recently announced its collaboration with Starling Bank in the U.K. Massachusetts’ Berkshire Bank is one of them. “Our bank and credit union clients need financial technology tools that align with their personal and business needs,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Courtesy of the relationship and romance experts at PYMNTS, here is one of the few obvious statements that still manages to convey deep and eternal wisdom: Weddings are not for the fainthearted. Digital technology and different payment processes cannot guarantee that some drunken relative or incompetent vendor won’t ruin a wedding.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Achieving those mission-critical seconds has never had more options, with the QSR industry in the midst of enjoying a boom in new technologies that promise to reduce wait times while boosting food quality and customer service. QSRs also embraced popular third-party technology as part of their operations, including at kiosks.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

More than 41% of banks have bought into hyperconvergence — a blend of integrated server, storage and networking technology that's easily managed by software — and there's no sign of its popularity letting up. PeoplesBank, a community bank in Massachusetts, is one of those that caught the bug.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 17, 2018

The tech boom has diffused beyond the traditional hotbeds of California, New York, and Massachusetts, across the entire United States. Using the CB Insights database, we identified the most-well funded VC-backed technology startups by state based on disclosed equity funding. Tilson Technology Management. Massachusetts.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

Use cases are growing with blockchain, and while the headlines may focus on large-scale government initiatives and where distributed ledger technology (DLT) might be headed, the fact remains that smaller projects are gaining traction. Looking on a case-by-case basis, state initiatives (or local ones outside the U.S.) Ballots Over Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

First, bitcoin has managed to stay above $1,000 for a record 10 days, leading some to speculate that the cryptocurrency could be developing a new, $1,000 price floor — though it may still be too early to tell. Locations on the radar for new Coinsource ATMs in 2017, according to Sharp, included in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Massachusetts securities regulators recently sued the company , alleging that it exposes investors to “unnecessary trading risks” and prompts inexperienced investors to trade frequently through the “gamification” of stock-market investing. The company also raised $140 million earlier this month in a round led by Tiger Global Management.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Technology is taking us to a world where we never have to leave our homes. Rather than build a new warehouse or rely on tried-and-tested technologies for picking products off shelves, Target decided to try a “new breed of robots.”. That the technology will change distribution is certain. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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FICO

APRIL 26, 2022

As an AI practitioner and educator, teaching graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jordan brought an incisive pragmatism to his conversation with Scott. He added, “Blockchain is one of my favorite technologies for AI governance because it drives accountability, which is a big part of AI ethics.”.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

As the construction tech industry matures, the space has seen increasing efforts from early-stage companies to leverage new technologies across all areas of the sector—from connecting clients and contractors to buying and selling construction-related goods and services. Pillar Technologies. Headquarters: Somerville, Massachusetts.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Boost Insurance , a New York-based B2B digital insurance platform, raised a $14M Series A led by Coatue Management, and Conversion Capital. Coalition , a San Francisco-based digital cyber insurance managing general agent (MGA), acquired BinaryEdge , a Switzerland-based cybersecurity company, for an undisclosed amount. . PARTNERSHIPS.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

A two-and-a-half-year POS upgrade project and a partnership with OLO later, and Au Bon Pain (ABP) is rolling out its mobile order ahead solution, starting in Massachusetts, with what Erwin says is an very tailored suite of services for its customers. As a bakery and café, throughout the day things will sell out.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 15 notable, early-stage startups developing technologies related to unmanned aerial, marine, and/or land vehicles designed for unstructured environments. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Select Investors: Environmental Technologies Fund. Fortem Technologies. Flyability.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Thanks to its expanding use as a healthcare management tool, Cook said that the Watch is becoming an “indispensable tool” for users worldwide. But as Apple demonstrates, the stakes are too lucrative, and the technology too promising, to back down in healthcare. That growth spike applies to the Apple Watch as well. Wearables Growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Shoppers can then view content chronicling the fish’s journey, starting with the fisherman, on through the sales manager and finally to the fishmonger, all caught fresh by SnapChat Spectacles. Leveraging the Snapchat platform and Spectacles technology is just another way that U supermarkets are reaching out to meet consumers where they are.

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