Bank Innovation

APRIL 4, 2017

WhatsApp–which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $22 billion–has 1.2 Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is beginning its trek into payments, using the UPI system to enable the feature in India. 200 […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In 2013 the Atlantic anointed turkey a “ second-rate bird ,” while the writers at Slate mused in 2014 that “ literally any other meat tastes better.” There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. So is this innovation worth investigation? Or is there? The Instant Pot Solution. Give up and use the oven?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This is the first time since the company’s 2014 launch that its U.S. The point-of-sale lender announced this week it has more U.S. customers than customers in New Zealand and in Australia, where it is headquartered. customer numbers have outperformed other markets. […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

According to the Making Instant Pay Global Playbook , public utility companies are innovating their payment methods to include online and mobile options to meet consumer demand and stay competitive. When the company entered Nigeria in 2014, smartphone penetration was only at 10 percent.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Data: 2014: The year Lumen was founded. In investments, retail dispute management firm Chargeback closed a funding round to speed up growth and to help retailers reduce credit card disputes. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Patent filings for blockchain technology have more than tripled since 2014; this spike includes patents filed by cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, payment processors like Mastercard, and banks like Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America. According to a report conducted by law firm Reed Smith, the most popular areas Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 6, 2016

Back in 2014, Stripe confirmed that it was working with Facebook on a “Buy” button for the social media giant. From Recode: Facebook first began testing a “Buy” button within the News Feed in July [2014], and payments startup Stripe has been tasked Read More. Whatever happened to the “Buy with Facebook” button?

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Perficient takes pride in our global delivery capabilities that empower companies to adapt and innovate with agility. Perficient has aggressively grown our global delivery capabilities, increasing headcount by more than 30% annually since 2014.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. All this, Today in Data. 400M: Amount of revenue Wine Insiders has brought in to date.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

s largest digital mortgage companies told Bank Innovation why they aren’t partnering with banks. LendingHome, which has originated $3 billion in loans since 2014, says there need not be a rush for digital mortgage servicers to partner with […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

You may have missed our coverage of a few of the retail innovators that are summed up below, arranged in no particular order, or perhaps you’ll want to revisit them anew. It was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for a mall in 2014. The Strength of SMBs In Innovation. Shoes As A Currency.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 23, 2017

This company, known as Onchain, was founded in Shanghai in 2014. A representative of Fosun Group, which, at $13.1 In addition […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Co-signed by the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Independent Community Bankers of America and The Clearing House, the letter argues that banks and non-bank technology firms are both already embracing innovation in customer service offerings. FDIC), the states and the courts.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 30, 2016

he defined as the emergence of peer-to-peer lenders and new payments companies between 2010 and 2014. I was piqued by Victor Matarranz’s [SEVP Head of Group Strategy and Chairman’s Office, Banco Santander] presentation at MoneyConf last week, mainly because he began by talking about Fintech 1.0 versus Fintech 2.0. Fintech 1.0

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 3, 2018

based money transfer service, it launched in 2014, where customers could transfer money at lower fees. Retail giant Walmart announced today the launch of a global money transfer service called Walmart2World. The Walmart2World service is extension of its U.S.-based

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. Launched back in 2014, […]. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We This year, we look at revenues.”

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 28, 2017

Founded in 2014, Baltimore-based Blispay provides point of sale financing for customers of small and medium-sized merchants. BlisPay’s CEO, Greg Lisiewski, told Bank Innovation that as the company focuses on scaling itself and adding more merchants to its […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. One of those is Uber Eats , which launched in 2014. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The stake comes from an agreement between Alibaba and Ant first signed in 2014, according to the companies, and will allow Alibaba to buy newly released shares in […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Zoox was founded in 2014 and has been working to develop electric-powered robot taxis. In 2019, it participated in a $530 million funding round for autonomous technology firm Aurora Innovation. “We believe $1.1 billion would be a fair price for the company, representing a 65.6% haircut from its previous post-money valuation of $3.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The firm previously said the dual China listings back its goal to accelerate digitization of the country’s service industry and fuel domestic demand, while positioning the firm to create global markets with partners and grow investment in innovation as well as technology.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 11, 2016

The program, launched in May 2014, allows merchants who charge less than $1 million a year through American Express, to use one of 18 merchant processors to secure a lower discount rate. Market participants tell Bank Innovation Read More. American Express today dispelled market rumors that it would expand its OptBlue program.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Simple and Moven had more innovative offerings than traditional peers, but that didn't translate to more customers or more revenue. What was BBVA paying for when it bought Simple for $117 million in 2014? Fintech startups, particularly neobanks, have long suffered from having great technology, but few customers using it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Last year, Amazon participated in a $530 million funding round for autonomous technology firm Aurora Innovation. Founded in 2014, it was valued at $3.2 Still, some analysts say the deal is more about Amazon’s mission to fold autonomous technology into its delivery network. billion four years later. “We We believe $1.1

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JUNE 16, 2017

Ethereum raised money with an ICO in 2014. Unlike an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition of the tokens does not grant ownership in the company developing the new cryptocurrency. And unlike an IPO, there is little or no government regulation of an ICO. “The first ICO was for Mastercoin in 2013. ICOs are now extremely popular.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

Nium, formerly known as InstaReM, has closed four funding rounds totaling $59 million since it was founded in 2014. As previously reported in this space, FinTech startup Nium’s latest round of funding, whose size was not disclosed, was led by new investors Visa and BRI Ventures.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2018

Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 was the largest in history. Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce company Alibaba Group is seriously considering listing the company on Hong Kong’s exchange, he said.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 23, 2018

Social media platform SnapChat will shut down its P2P payment feature, Snapcash, as of August 30, after launching less than four years ago in 2014. Snapcash has faced a lot of competition from more popular P2P apps such as Venmo, Apple Pay, SquareCash, PayPal and even the banks-backed Zelle, which reported a $25 billion in […].

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The fund was launched in 2014 and has […]. InnoVentures was the leader in the round, though VilCap Investments, Finlab, and Pomona Impact also invested. This investment marks the first Santander’s venture fund has ever made in Latin America.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. And digital innovators are providing subscriptions as a means of discovery for consumers. Disney’s anticipated Disney+ , for instance, will reportedly launch on Nov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Bunq, which officially received its banking license from Dutch authorities in 2014, applies this strategy by offering solutions like Dual Payments, which allows consumers to use one card to make payments from two separate accounts simply by inputting separate PIN codes. [The

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Project Titan, the Apple automotive effort, has been working on a self-driving vehicle sporadically since 2014, working from scratch. Apple is advancing its self-driving car project, according to a Reuters report, and will look at debuting a new product by 2024 that could also come with new battery technology.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Caribou’s current rewards system is quite different from what was offered when it debuted in 2014, Larson said. Another innovation Caribou implemented post-release was targeted recommendations. How Caribou modernized its rewards system. Caribou fixed this issue by adding the ability to schedule pickup hours in advance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Jess Turner, Mastercard’s executive vice president for North America Products and Innovation, tells PYMNTS the venture is just one part of the firm’s push to help gig workers get benefits. Stride launched the world’s first “portable benefits platform” in 2014 — a product that has since helped more than 1.5 The tie-up will give U.S.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This is the first time since the company’s 2014 launch that its U.S. The point-of-sale lender announced this week it has more U.S. customers than customers in New Zealand and in Australia, where it is headquartered. customer numbers have outperformed other markets. […].

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