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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Since opening their first store in Palo Alto, California, in 2015, b8ta has aimed to offer just such an experience: the ability to snap up tech products that might otherwise be hard to find — and buy anyplace but online. And whatever retail technology they sell in terms of profit, they keep.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 22, 2017

I blogged a year ago about TechFin, the incumbents’ view of applying technology to existing banking services, versus FinTech which seeks to transform the financial system. TechFin is to rebuild the system with technology. What we want to do is to solve the problem of a lack of inclusiveness.”

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The firm, which closed a $250 million fund in 2015, primarily invests in business-to-business technology companies. Centana Growth Partners, a New York and Palo Alto, Calif.-based based growth equity firm, closed its second fintech valued at $375 million this week.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

With initiatives like the Faster Payments Task Force and the Secure Payments Task Force, the Fed is pushing for innovation and progress in the nation’s payments infrastructure and market. Two in particular, he said, are technology and payer habits. “It’s It’s a combination of both,” Sapenaro said.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

The question for the 2020s, and the focus of her remarks at the big show in New York last week, is about innovations itself — what is truly leading in innovation and what constitutes being a laggard? The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation . The answer, she noted, is complex.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

. “While their contribution has grown at a slower rate than that of large businesses, small businesses continue to be at the forefront of driving innovation, jobs and economic growth.” ” However, as SMBs drive innovation for the U.S. trillion in 2015, the report said.

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Abrigo

APRIL 14, 2017

Experts agree that while commercial lending is a critical banking service, it has been one of the least automated and technology-reliant aspects of banking today. A credit risk manager at one bank with $900 million in total assets estimated that her team received approximately 8,220 tax returns in the 2015 calendar year.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Three words are driving dramatic technological changes in the fast food space: quality, convenience and speed. Restaurant operators are doing their best to satisfy those demands, spending billions on sophisticated, innovative solutions that improve experiences for customers who are dining in or ordering delivery or pickup. million U.S.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 22, 2019

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, today announced the addition of nbkc bank as a member of its ecosystem. Currently in its seventh startup class, INV Fintech fosters innovation through information sharing, interactions and potential collaborations between startups, financial institutions and technology providers.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

CUs are also leveraging the latest technologies, including cloud computing, to continue fostering the relationships with their customers. Though cloud computing still has its teething issues, CUs are exploring a middle ground between public and private cloud servers to determine the best way to harness this technology. million in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

500,000: Number of Instagram followers Flat Tummy had on its own in 2015. And Nike recently announced it will no longer sell its wares on Amazon, following an increasing eCommerce trend where firms sell directly to consumers instead. All this, Today in Data. 2017: The year Nike launched a limited program to sell with Amazon.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Pretty much everyone needs medicine at one or another, and that need is helping to drive retail innovation and attempts at disruption in the pharmacy business. The news represents the biggest round of store closures for Walgreens since 2015. But innovation efforts continue for retail pharmacy operations. Delivery Push.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Innovation Program. Innovator Awards.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 7, 2016

2016 will likely see less investment in bitcoin and blockchain technology, but that is true for many other areas, as well. This year to date has seen $161 million invested so far, while 2015 saw a total of Read More. As the summer heats up, blockchain hype may (finally) be cooling down.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 12, 2016

Citi Fintech launched in the fall of 2015 to build the bank of the future, but it has yet to release a product. Now Citigroup‘s innovation unit has lost its CEO. USAA announced today that Citi Fintech CEO Heather Cox was joining the bank as chief technology and digital officer, a new Read More.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 12, 2016

APIs (application programming interfaces) are fast becoming integral to the banking world, but corporate culture has not yet caught up with the technology, according to data from a survey conducted by the Open Bank Project together with Bank Innovation.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 14, 2017

Over the past two years, the transaction volume in the financial technology and information technology sectors remained relatively flat. According to the investment bank Berkery Noyes, there were 870 financial technology and information industry M&A transactions from the beginning of 2015 through to the end of 2016.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Launched in November 2015, PeerStreet has been Read More. It seems like all the players in the marketplace lending space felt the cloud of uncertainty that surrounded the industry last year. Except for PeerStreet. The platform brings real estate to the marketplace lending space, opening up a previously inaccessible asset class to investors.

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MARCH 18, 2019

That’s according to CoinDesk , which cited Gulru Atak, head of Citi’s Innovation Lab, as saying that after working on a cryptocurrency since 2015, the bank came to the conclusion that while the technology had potential, there were other ways to improve payments.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Rowe Price Associates. Uber’s Move.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2017

Blockchain VC investment plateaued last year, nearing $500 million at yearend 2016 — only a 1% improvement, compared to 2015, according to State of Blockchain 2017 report published by Coindesk today. As the buzz around blockchain fades, so does the venture capital investment in the sector.

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JULY 21, 2020

A panel established to grow the United Kingdom’s (UK) financial technology (FinTech) sector plans a review of the industry to identify opportunities for growth, the government announced Tuesday (July 21). billion) in venture capital and the market has been estimated to have grown by nearly 70 percent since 2015. billion pounds ($5.2

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Accenture

JULY 6, 2015

In the Accenture Technology Vision 2015 for Banking, we explore five digital trends that reinforce our strategy for banks to become Everyday Banks. The first trend we explore is the Internet of Me. We know that personalized experiences are a. Read more.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here are mine: Banks are fully aware of the threat of posed by technology and are beginning to act on it. Two technology vendors I spoke to said that every single bank they met with asked about blockchain, an extraordinary change from six months ago when it was only beginning to be seriously discussed.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2017

2015 – with MCX as the “premier” launch partner. JPMorgan Chase will acquire Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) payments tech – a network of the largest U.S. merchants, which ran a short-lived CurrentC pilot last year – the companies announced on Friday. The acquisition will help expand Chase Pay, which was launched in Oct.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Italian postal service Poste Italiane is introducing a new payments technology in an effort to attract more domestic small businesses, according to a report by Reuters. Poste Italiane’s new technology will be based on QR codes , which let buyers pay for things using their phones without the use of a POS terminal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cotten didn’t file personal tax returns for 2014, 2015 or 2017 and his 2016 return didn’t report any income from Quadriga, and Robertson’s tax returns from 2015 and 2016 showed income of less than C$60,000 a year, while in 2017 there was income of less than C$5,000 — but none of it from Quadriga.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Innovations — some more fantastical than others — keep emerging, though. Last month, global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. The technology gives users greater convenience and security when shopping at mainstream retailers. Vein recognition?

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JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution. And now, Amazon.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2017

first was Yirendai in 2015), China Rapid Finance is confident its new listing on the New York Stock Exchange will lead to growth. As only the second Chinese online lender to go public in the U.S.

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MAY 3, 2020

A lawsuit against Uber alleges that the company engaged in deceitful practices to drive its competitor Sidecar Technologies out of business in 2015, according to Reuters. The lawsuit by SC Innovations, Sidecar’s successor, has been allowed to go forward by Judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The cross-border investment and asset management firm China Everbright Limited is leading a $283 million Series C1 funding round for Terminus Technologies, Deal Street Asia reported on Tuesday (Aug. Artificial intelligence provider Terminus Technologies will use the money for further development and additional staffing.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Although many people equate blockchain technology with the banking and computer worlds, the technology is changing the food landscape as well. Battling Amazon’s ultra-efficient supply chain with the new blockchain technology could be just what retailers and food producers need to help keep pace with the online retail giant.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 14, 2017

Others are more tactical, and aimed to provide coverage in parts of the world where Chinese tourists can be found: Wirecard and Alipay sign agreement for innovative POS payment acceptance, November 2015 Alibaba’s Ant Financial Strikes Deal With Ingenico for European Payments Push, August 2016 Ant Financial partners with First Data and Verifone as part (..)

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Warehouses, though still manually operated, are in need of more automation and robotics technology to accommodate the massive challenges and demands created by the prevalence of online platforms. Among Nike’s other innovations was last year’s foray into blockchain-compatible sneakers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

This buy represents First Data’s biggest acquisition since going public in 2015. This transaction is consistent with our strategy of integrating and scaling innovative technologies across our distribution footprint to better serve our partners and customers,” Frank Bisignano, First Data’s chief executive, said in a statement. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi was previously valued at $300 million in a financing round that Google led in 2015. The company will use the money for expansion and new products, from dashboard platforms to car mirrors with smart technology. It will also help Shanghai become an international financial center, as well as a hub for technology innovation.”.

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