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JULY 23, 2019

Amid the slew of real estate startups coming to market, with any number of approaches in changing the way real estate transactions are made, there are also new initiatives to change the way homes function. For Amazon, the move represents a deeper push into real estate. The bundles also feature Echo devices and a Ring doorbell camera.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The switch to a private designation for Nordstrom has been underway since 2017, though the brand ran into hurdles in securing sufficient financing to make the deal happen. The Seattle-based retailer does not have the massive store fleet some of its competitors have, making a closure a much more notable event.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The publication said PillPack recently filed for several new pharmacy licenses, most of which are to secure clearance to ship drugs from its warehouse in Phoenix to customers, reports said. However, new reports from CNBC on Wednesday (Nov. 21) said Amazon may first be gearing up to introduce the service to its own employees.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 20, 2018

When retailers don’t have to dedicate space in their brick-and-mortar locations to cash registers, consumers can enjoy less friction during checkout. To make this a reality for established retailers, companies such as Standard Cognition are working to put self-checkout technology in existing stores. Retailers in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. It’s a marketing and brand awareness play,” Cho told Digiday. The Strategist is not the only media brand to wade into brick-and-mortar retail. in the upcoming holiday season.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology. The move comes amid a general trend in all areas of payments and commerce to move beyond the limitations and security risks that come with older forms of ID authentication and verification.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

But while local businesses want to stay local and keep their Main Street stores alive, they also want to expand digital and remote-retail experiences. Retailers need help right now. Shopify is doing everything we can to help retailers adapt to current challenges and come back stronger,” said Ian Black, director of retail at Shopify. “We

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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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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 29, 2018

But security has to be kept in mind due to the potential of theft. The news comes as Amazon’s first foray into the convenience store market, Amazon Go, opened in January at its headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. Market opportunity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Now, in fairness, if there was ever a day when Amazon would run the retail table, it would likely be on the shopping holiday they invented. But as big as Prime Day was across all of retail, it wasn’t the only thing happening in the ongoing race. Everyone else – including Taylor Swift – was just a player in it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Descartes System Group , a Canadian logistics company with global reach, has acquired ShipRush , a Seattle-based shipping company that connects small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with delivery carriers across the U.S., Mazi Silveira, Descartes’ vice president of global marketing, said the businesses complement each other perfectly.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to reports, Amazon Go will be coming to a 10,400 square-foot grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, where it is currently being tested. The goal, analysts note isn’t to steal market share from the leaders. The technology is also slated to support a series of pop-up shops.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

It looks like distributed ledger startup Ripple is facing a new lawsuit that alleges its XRP cryptocurrency is really a security in disguise. According to Zakinov, the XRP token is a security controlled by Ripple, and he states he was damaged by a February purchase of that token. The Loss: Ripple .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a big week for advances in robotic deliveries, with Postmates securing the first permit to test robotic sidewalk deliveries in San Francisco. Scout saw its first tests in Amazon’s Seattle backyard — and company officials predict California will prove an easier testing ground with it sunnier and milder weather.

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CB Insights

MAY 6, 2019

The Seattle-based company had launched in 2015 with the goal of offering consumer testing kits for different biomarkers including genetics, microbiome, and blood. This may be another instance of a big price tag and a small market for a product with uncertain efficacy. Dead on Arivale. What does an FBI raid do to your microbiome?

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the immediate retail future will take shape. 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.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

The biometric software behind facial recognition applications can identify facial structures, contours, and expressions, making it a no-brainer for security and identification purposes. While the technology is still developing, many companies (including Amazon) are banking on it as a disruptive force in a myriad of markets.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Senior vice-president of Risk and Authentication Products at Visa Mark Nelsen said geolocation technology will help FIs deliver a more convenient and secure payments experience, no matter where they are in the world. The post Could geolocation be the next tool in the fight against fraud? appeared first on Banking.com.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

IBM has more than 1,500 employees working on the technology and claims 32% of corporate blockchain market share, according to reports. Microsoft captures 19% market share, second only to IBM. Microsoft has filed patents for trusted execution environments (TEEs) that could secure and support blockchain networks.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

This week’s venture capital (VC) investment tracker finds that both blockchain and alternative finance are leading markets. Based in Seattle, Qumulo offers businesses data management technology via its cloud-based file storage solution. Paxos provides settlement services in the precious metals securities trading market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

and Canada (its most lucrative markets, revenue-wise) isn’t growing and it’s suffered through a reputational beating over the last year. Facebook’s invigorated commitment to being vigilant comes as the service is officially shipping out its Portal video chat product to the market this week. The shops are staffed by Macy’s employees.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Edgewater Markets. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Seattle, WA. Tags: Investors, big data, business intelligence, investing, capital markets. Source: Crunchbase. Foreign exchange aggregation & distribution. Latest round: $30 million Private Equity. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: New York City. CrowdStreet.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. Curated stock & market ideas. Tags: Security, enterprise, FinDEVr 2015 alum. Source: Crunchbase. Cybersecurity tools for banks and credit unions. Latest round: $3.1 Total raised: $5 million. Source: Geekwire. million Seed.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

Mary began her career as a securities analyst in 1986. In 1994 he joined CoroNet Systems as a Vice President of Marketing before the company was acquired by Compuware in 1995. After a brief role with DLJ, Kirsten joined Banc of America Securities as an Equity Research Analyst focused on the specialty retail sector.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

So, when Dunkin’ goes after Starbucks following the news that the Seattle-based company was changing its loyalty program, it also has to do with mobile strategy (which Starbucks, admittedly, has a lead on). It’s becoming increasingly evident that biometrics and facial recognition are the future of mobile payments security.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 29, 2015

Interactive video ATMs draw attention as an alternative retail delivery option. But are the machines really taking off as a worthwhile retail delivery option? For some community banks, video tellers, sometimes called interactive teller machines or ITMs, can work well for select markets or under certain conditions, experts say.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon.

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CB Insights

JUNE 5, 2019

Biometric technology such as facial recognition can quickly and accurately identify individual people and their emotional state, making it a powerful tool for ensuring security and preventing fraud. Energy companies are leveraging facial recognition for security, payments, and driver health.

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