Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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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. Walmart Boosts Digital Health, Wellness Capabilities With CareZone Buy.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

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

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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

MARCH 8, 2016

To say the least, the retail world was caught off guard when Amazon announced last year that it would open a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. The mall in question has become something of a haven for eCommerce companies branching out into the brick-and-mortar world, as Bonobos and Warby Parker both operate storefronts there. “We

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales among consumers in the U.S., But the Seattle eCommerce company may actually be handling double that amount — 20–30 percent of all U.S. shoppers spend online could be as high as $125 billion yearly. online sales at 31.3 percent as of today. “If

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They might like making cakes and seeing happy customers, but few especially enjoy managing their businesses. “So That mental comfort of ‘I have the money’ changes the behavior of how merchants operate, how they push off bills, how they pay bills, how they pay their employees,” he said. Don’t Put Too Much Faith In Credit.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

While much has been made in the past few months about Amazon’s grocery store of the future, Amazon Go isn’t the online retailer’s only brick-and-mortar play — and a new move indicates that Amazon looks to continue expanding its physical retail presence outside of the grocery space. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. The operative word is control. “I What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2017

But, Euwyn Poon, co-founder and president of Spin , told Karen Webster in this week’s Matchmaker Is In interview, that many of those docked bike-sharing solutions are entirely publicly owned and have been a burden on the cities that operate them. In Seattle, it was an interesting experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Online brands are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints: Online handbag marketplace Rebag , for instance, is opening a new store in Miami’s Design District with more stores said to come. The 1,700-square-foot Midtown Manhattan space comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in a New York City mall.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

While the eventual goal for perhaps all participants in the pre- COVID-19 commerce ecosystem was to center their operations around a digital-first mentality, priorities have shifted some in the last several weeks. The percentage of consumers buying groceries online has tripled, from 3 percent on March 6 to 9 percent on March 28.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

First Data has rolled out a commerce technology solution at CenturyLink Field and CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle, home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, designed to “take the fan experience to the next level” for those at the stadium. Payments Take The Field. Every wonder what a fraudster looks like? They can be very versatile.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Walmart is apparently working hard at restructuring itself to win, particularly in regards to how it manages it growing its eCommerce business — operationally and logistically. “Walmart’s results show it’s a food fight out there, with Amazon re-accelerating holiday sales growth,” Evercore Analyst Greg Melich said on Feb. The Battlegrounds.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Trust is an essential factor for business interactions of any sort, but this is especially true now that most of these interactions happen online. As that happens, retail operators — including some of the biggest and most famous — are turning to AI and putting more faith in the technology to help secure the future. Retail Trust and AI.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The degrees include health science, health and wellness and healthcare management/administration, offered through Southern New Hampshire University, Purdue University Global, Wilmington University and Bellevue University. The retailer’s 1.5 million U.S. associates can now apply for two career diplomas or one of seven bachelor’s degrees.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

You have to give people a reason to bank with you,” says Tim Reimink, managing director in the Crowe LLP performance consulting group in Chicago. One of its partnerships involves providing passbook accounts and banking services via Remitly, a Seattle-based remittance startup. There are many examples of bank-fintech partnerships.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

economy — the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak and managing the various pieces of economic collateral damage being carried in its wake. Consumers using Amazon Fresh or ordering from Whole Foods this week ran up against a technical issue as the online ordering system overburdened by hunkered-down consumers was pushed past its capacity. “As

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Like their American counterpart Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent are fashioning themselves identities that have less and less to do with online shopping and more to do with an integrated life approach. Alibaba already offers mobile booking for salon and spa appointments, cloud computing, wealth management, insurance services and more.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2016

Not only will the brand’s remaining stores and stock be chopped up and sold off to make good on debts to suppliers-turned-creditors, but as many as 8,000 in-store employees will soon find themselves out of work — plus an additional 3,000 workers who weren’t BHS employees but relied on the retailer’s operations for their livings.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Clients can view the full list of 150+ cashier-free retail operators here. Some historians date its existence to over 2,000 years ago: texts from ancient Greece describe a coin-operated machine for dispensing holy water in temples. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a week with a fair amount of push back on the road, particularly on Amazon’s side of the ledger with choppy waters in both its delivery operations and ongoing expansion into healthcare. Surescripts manages 80 percent of all U.S. And Amazon playing hardball in the marketplace was not Walmart’s only online woe this week.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

German-based discount-supermarket giant ALDI announced a great leap forward into the world of digital sales this week with word that it will be piloting a new “click-and-collect” online grocery ordering program at a single U.K. Target also announced big changes in how it’s managing foot traffic. and Ireland, told the Financial Times.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. Alibaba, meanwhile, has publicly announced a strategy to combine online and offline commerce, dubbed “new retail.” Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B to acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods last summer.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

” In January 2018, Amazon launched its automated cashier-less Amazon Go store in Seattle. PillPack allows users to buy medications online in pre-made doses. “A lot of people who don’t ever operate in [the car manufacturing industry] don’t understand and have a tendency to underestimate.”. We have ‘I’. Robo-advisors.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

With more than $95 million in financing placed, startups across eProcurement, cybersecurity, logistics, alternative finance, blockchain and supply chain management secured support. The company provides an online marketplace for small businesses (SMBs) in the country to procure raw materials and negotiate with larger suppliers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And it’s an area often lacking in traditional online banking services. Most providers operate on a dual revenue model, charging a monthly subscription fee to satisfy their VC investors craving recurring revenue predictability and a transaction fee to cover interchange costs. Subscription management platforms (coming soon).

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

Samsara’s applications include fleet management, collision prevention, and delivery coordination. Company Description: Operating out of Santa Monica, California, GoodRx offers a cost-saving platform for prescription drugs. Company Description: Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox is an online gaming platform.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

Startups working in construction tech have the potential to upend approaches to design, procurement, and operations. Seattle-based Blokable aims to eliminate inefficiencies in custom-build architecture and construction. The company is essentially an ecommerce platform for buyers to purchase Acre homes online. Construction Tech.

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