PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Russia’s biggest technology firm, Yandex NV, launched an online service that uses bike couriers to bring groceries to Moscow residents in 15 minutes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Jan. The free service, called Lavka, stocks roughly 2,000 items and plans to operate as a digital convenience market for items like toothpaste and condoms.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Coverage includes Mexico ‘s Banco BASE selecting Volante Technologies Inc. Azimo says it has received a license from the Dutch Central Bank to operate in the Netherlands, Cubic Transportation Systems has notched a contract for a mobile ticketing system in Ireland , and Bear Market Coffee in Ireland has gone cashless.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

To learn more about how these incubation efforts work and the benefits they can bring, PYMNTS recently caught up with Chris Ostoich, co-founder of LISNR, a company taking part in the METRO Target Retail Accelerator , certified by Techstars. Other Efforts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

14) that Dispatch, its service that enables restaurant operators to offer delivery, is now operating nationwide across most major metro areas, as well as smaller suburban and rural markets. Postmates operates the largest on-demand delivery platform in the U.S. announced on Wednesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

14) that Atom Bank, Currencycloud, Modulr and Iwoca have secured a portion of the £775m allocated from RBS as a government mandate to support competition in the market. The funds will also enable the challenger bank to develop a digital small business toolkit, create jobs and invest £15 million into its own technologies and services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Delivery companies Point Pickup , Skipcart , AxleHire and Roadie will make deliveries in metro areas across four states, with further expansion planned in the coming weeks. Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. Customers love our Grocery Delivery service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The December Order To Eat Tracker® highlights the latest technologies, innovations and collaborations that are altering the restaurant landscape from self-driving vehicles, car-side delivery models and other innovations. Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In my frequent conversations with clients across the UK and Irish banking industry, one of today’s hottest topics is the rise of the challenger banks such as CYBG, Metro and AIB UK, and particularly the neo-challenger banks providing digital-only services, like Monzo, Atom and Starling. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. The Houston metro took the 10th spot with a 20.3% increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. Deepening roots.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Senior Vice President of Digital Operations Tom Ward said in a blog post , “Through it, w e aim to learn more about how we can take advantage of self-driving vehicles to deliver fresh groceries – hand-picked by our personal shoppers – to customers.”. Walmart U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

.’s efforts to inject competition in the small business banking and financial services sector have culminated in a range of initiatives, from the bank referral scheme to strengthen the position of alternative lenders in the market, to the RBS fund that sees rivals and industry newcomers securing financing to improve their services.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The technology, Visa’s Global Head of Urban Mobility Nick Mackie told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, was still in its most nascent stages of deployment — outside of Europe the contactless cards essentially didn’t exist, and within Europe 1 out of every 400 payments in Europe made via contactless. Major metros in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From North America to China, the concept is gaining ground around the world as retailers mull bringing the technology to multiple – even thousands of – locations. And on the other side of the world, BingoBox operates over 200 of its self-service specialty stores in 29 Chinese provinces – and has nabbed $80 million in funding to boot.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart. We are pleased to invest in the company at this point of accelerated growth and, as they expand, to additional markets across the nation.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the two ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to separate in the imagination and in reality. The global market for smart city technology will reach an estimated $774.8 The global market for smart city technology will reach an estimated $774.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Additionally, the smartphone market is getting saturated.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2018

market has changed, framed largely as a competition between Amazon and Walmart , with increasing pressure from discount chains like ALDI. The operator of over 2,000 grocery stores nationwide, the company is the second-largest physical retailer in the U.S., Ever since that inflection point, the narrative surrounding grocery in the U.S.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Based on the facts presented the inescapable conclusion I draw from the event is that for most banks in most markets, careful and purposeful coordination of both physical and digital channels will be needed to provide the best experience to clients. Banks don’t serve homogeneous markets. Few things appear stable at present.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Virtually unheard of even a few years ago, these days there are over 1,000 bike-share operations in locations around the globe — and research firm Berger expects that by year 2020, the industry will be worth almost $6 billion annually. But in China, a change has been brewing — and rapidly, as the market is evolving away from those docks.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Whether it’s products and services, technology strategies or employee benefits, independent community banks decide on their own terms what’s best for their business and their customers. The community bank uses the Entrepreneurial Operating System, commonly known as EOS Traction, to keep departmental efforts aligned. A: Technology.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. and it's banking subsidiary Metro City Bank are headquartered in Atlanta. You read that right.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Rolling out mobile order-ahead can involve big operational changes, and the road to innovation — or convenience, as it were — isn’t always clearly marked. For established businesses, the investment in digital ordering technology makes sense: more and more consumers are walking around with mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

And yet, with the release of its latest earnings report, Wayfair continues to perform admirably under the strain; with better than expected results and a big jump in its stock price (at least at first) to market it. Operating expenses increased 30 percent. Beyond The Numbers .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. Amazon is advancing warehouse automation tech with a big leveling up of its autonomous cart technology. metros with more set to be added by Amazon by year’s end.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2017

Now, all eyes are ahead once more for Alphabet’s upcoming Q1 earnings report slated for today after market close. This put Alphabet’s market cap well above $610 billion at the time. Waymo has not disclosed how many total vehicles will be operating in the region during the expanded public tests. billion for the quarter.

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PYMNTS

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. We came into the market right when their existing station-based bikes had folded,” Poon said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The company said it plans to use the funding to expand its staff across leadership, sales and marketing positions and continue to develop its underlying technology. that looks to apply distributed ledger technology to payments and settlement. Procure-To-Pay. Tradeshift. Blockchain. According to reports Wednesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

Just as Uber assembles a critical mass of drivers and uses technology and geo-location to send the right driver to a consumer in need of a ride, then pays the driver when the ride is over, Homee does the same with technicians and homeowners in need, including putting money into their bank accounts within 72 hours of completing the job.

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NCR

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In many other industries, the European market can often be influenced by what is happening in other regions, so there’s no reason why the same should not be true in the banking sector as well. Consumers in the UK, for example, do appear to be very attracted by the idea of drive-up convenience using the ATM.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This collaboration has particular significance for our customer population from China, who now have a new way to experience Walgreens,” Richard Ashworth, Walgreens president of operations, said in a press release. Walgreens accept Alipay — mostly clustered in major metros like San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing that you have introduced into the market and what value did it deliver to the stakeholder group that was its target? BW: The ecosystem in which we operate. BW: It’s hard to pick just one – but here is one that I think underscores our approach to innovation. And since the U.S.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Some of it is soft cost,” and that’s what makes it hard to pin down, says Anita Vogel-Drentlaw, president of New Market Bank, a $99 million-asset community bank in Elko New Market, Minn. Many community bank executives expect to increase their compliance spending in 2016 on outside consultants and technology than on internal staff.

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CB Insights

MARCH 22, 2018

In 2015, a new bike-share model began rising in Asia, particularly China, driven by the confluence of several technologies. With the proliferation of consumer-ready mobile payments, IoT, and mature GPS technology, costs to build remote locking and tracking systems plummeted, allowing bike-share operators to build dockless systems.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

He sensed the family’s passion and liked their idea of starting with selling milk at farmers’ markets, roadside shops and small grocery stores. We worked with them with loans to buy equipment and vehicles for delivery and the beginning operational cash needs of the business,” Bunnell says. Bunnell listened. Marion, Ky.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

With the wave of data thefts, there’s a flood of cheap raw material on the black market with which to create synthetic identities and take over accounts. To top it all off, the bad guys have technology, too. Visit IBM’s Stand # E08 at Sibos located in the Metro Toronto Convention Center. So what are financial institutions to do?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The latest data from Nacha found a new record-high growth rate for adoption of ACH payments , with B2B payments showcasing a surge in adoption of the legacy payment rail that has recently turned to technologies that can augment the service, from the movement of transaction data with an ACH payment to the deployment of Same Day ACH.

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