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MAY 26, 2022

Generation Life – a leading life insurance company that’s been providing Australians with tax-effective investment solutions for over 18 years – has launched its innovative new lifetime income solution, known as Generation Life LifeIncome, on GBST’s cloud-based wealth administration platform, Composer.

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APRIL 6, 2018

He turned to the internet, but he couldn’t find a place to book spaces online. As a result, he came to understand the experience of booking meeting spaces offline: It’s hardly a hassle-free experience and can involve calling an individual property. That’s hardly the easiest or safest way to book a space for an event.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

HRS said the deal comes on the heels of many years of providing travel savings to companies through payment as well as bill reconciliation technologies, “continuously innovative” offerings and wide but focused content selections. The platform comes across lower rates and automatically makes a new reservation for the traveler.

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JULY 11, 2019

Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Innovation Role. But that doesn’t mean innovation is impossible for those service providers, of course. Innovation can come in various forms for service providers.

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JULY 11, 2018

Technological innovation is a reality that is impacting every facet of society. No area of human endeavour from retail, to transportation, to banking has not seen some form of disruptive technology replace the long-established modus operandi. Regulatory enforcement actions are on the rise.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. DBI) , an employee benefits administrator, by financial technology services company WEX. Earlier in January, WEX announced a partnership with voice technology company AI.io That is not all on Smith’s plate. Future Trends.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

FlitWays Technology , a company enabling ground transportation booking, is expanding its B2B offering across Europe. 22) said FlitWays is launching its business travel booking tool in London, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona to address businesses’ ground transportation management and expense management needs in these markets.

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MAY 15, 2019

To help improve their operations, consumer services companies appear to have some very specific ideas about digital technology. The report also noted that many firms believe technology could also bolster their back-office operations. From Yelp to Apple , technology companies are providing solutions that could serve retail environments.

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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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APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. “We That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also about the client experience — from before any service is booked, to their experience within the salon itself, and through to payment and rebooking. That means sitting seamlessly within the customer interaction from booking, through to payment and repeat booking. Wookey told Karen Webster in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Once categories like auto sales, gasoline and restaurants are stripped from the total retail sales numbers and retail segments, like books and toys and sporting goods, are examined, those numbers begin to look very different. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. But corporate payers are not the only entities in charge of driving adoption of AP automation technologies. billion valuation. billion valuation.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Coal, steam and oil helped to fuel the industrial revolutions we read about in history books. But as time passes and a new decade approaches – one that promises even higher levels of digital innovation and disruption – it’s becoming ever more clear that 5G mobile network technology will help power the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

If you’re like most Americans , you have, and you likely were grateful for the time saved in traffic and at the store, or for the time or money saved in booking a trip. Technology can also provide tangible benefits to a business, and in many cases, those benefits are financial. Assisting with compliance.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Adherence to corporate travel booking policies is slipping. At the same time, a younger workforce is advancing, while technology is enabling the sharing economy to proliferate – and enabling travelers to book itineraries across devices and platforms. “More millennials are coming into the workforce and are self-sufficient.

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JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Efforts to disrupt the logistics and freight industry have multiplied in recent years, particularly with the emergence of technologies like the Internet of Things and blockchain. In the same vein as Internet of Things technology, this innovation streamlines solution providers’ efforts to connect to such a highly fragmented industry.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

million listings were on Booking as of October 2018. The news came after Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing notched $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. In addition, Didi customers were to book hotels through Booking.com and Agoda , its sister site. million bookable online listings at the time.

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JULY 29, 2020

(and a can-do spirit), a country that rewards ambition and innovation — and where individual success stories of, say Google and Amazon customers are folded into the testimony in efforts to show how tech can help smaller firms pivot and embrace the great digital shift. No one asked for AWS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

There’s no disputing that the pace of innovation in consumer payments over the last several years has been quick and its reach broad. There’s been an abundance of innovation in where consumers shop, what they use to pay when they buy and the devices they use to enable those payments.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The same is true of financial institutions when they consider technology investments to transform their lending and credit operations. Weaknesses of the current technology and processes are clear during peak operating loads, showing up as backlogs and longer waits for customer decisions. Book the right loans at the right price.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Business payments company Bottomline Technologies released its FY Q2 earnings data late last week, posting $63.2 Our product leadership is evidenced by the strong bookings we recorded in the quarter. million in subscription and transaction revenues. Overall, revenues for Q2 hit $95.2 million, up 10 percent. million in net income. “We

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. The clothing retailer is hardly alone, as 85 percent of merchants say that they innovate to stay competitive, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , while 77 percent say they use it to drive sales.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS had previous covered, way back in 2017, cloud-based travel and expense report management solution Certify bought nuTravel in a deal designed to enable Certify to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology. We are so much stronger as one company,” said new Emburse CEO Eric Friedrichsen. That’s not all. Other Areas of Change.

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MAY 27, 2016

Israel may be small, but the country packs a mighty technology punch. The “startup nation” is recognized for not just brimming with tech innovation, but also harboring more high-tech startups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other place in the world. primarily by helping U.K. economy of more than £600 million.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Hospitality Innovations. It’s seamless,” Solomon said, noting he thinks that will eventually become the dominant way travelers book suites. As a result, the company’s app will ask travelers if they are booking through a direct payment or Priority Pass booking. The latter option will take them to a separate pathway.

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JUNE 28, 2019

It often seems that technology makes retail innovation. It can be easy to forget that people are behind those innovations. Ive has earned a place in the history books, at least when it comes to the history of this particular era of retail. That brings us to Jony Ive. Apple will be a client, the company has confirmed.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the quick-service restaurant (QSR) word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. What’s more, Amazon Prime Student members will get special perks when they use the store. Subscription Rising. That leaves an opening for subscription commerce.

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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. The startups, including Uber Technologies Inc.’s Basically, NEXT Trucking uses digital technology to connect shippers with drivers and trucking companies (many drivers work for themselves, of course).

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BankUnderground

JUNE 16, 2021

In part this reversal responded to another historical lesson drawn from Reinhart and Rogoff’s 2009 book This Time is Different about the threshold of debt/GDP beyond which risks of further financial instability increased. Pandemics, finance, technological change. What’s next?

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MARCH 16, 2016

And, of course, we have technological innovations to thank, as MPD CEO Karen Webster shared during her opening remarks at Innovation Project 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today (March 16). But what inspires today’s innovators to take their journey to that “edge?” So, what makes an innovator an innovator?

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JANUARY 10, 2019

10) a partnership with AI.io, the voice technology company, to launch Halo Travel, a travel chatbot powered by Priceline Partner Network. In a press release , WEX said Halo Travel will be the first app to enable people to book hotels and flights via voice commands. Users can conduct their entire travel transactions via voice.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

In addition, Trinity Technology has reportedly received an operational license for mobile money in South Sudan , and Thailand’s Bangkok Bank (BBL) is predicting that 90 percent of transactions will be completed by mobile apps over the next three years. . This partnership with the four theaters is another step in that direction.

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