Bank Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2017

Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston all have thriving fintech communities, and are definitely worth a trip for the invested fintech entrepreneur, but the U.S. is already seeing a cluster of other fintech hubs emerge. These cities boast strong tech communities, talent pools, good coffee, and cheaper rents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Known for its Irish roots and sports teams, the city of Boston has significantly stepped up its technology game over the past few years. With 35 higher education institutions in the Boston area pumping out innovative tech startup companies left and right, the city has attracted big-time players in the industry. billion in 2015.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 1, 2025

Personalization : A Boston Consulting Group survey detailed that 80% of consumers are comfortable, and now expect, some level of personalization. Conclusion As marketing technology continues to evolve, banks are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance customer communication.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

And, as America found out what actually happens when the wrong name gets read on stage, PwC found out what happens when Twitter decides to rename your firm — as our CEO (and former PwC employee) Karen Webster told those assembled at the Innovation Project’s annual awards dinner last night. And the winners are… Best POS Innovation.

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Perficient

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hiral Shah , lead technical consultant, recently shared her thoughts on advocating for your work with BuiltIn Boston and Laura Kenny , Talent Acquisition Coordinator , wrote about in the article How Perficient Employees Slay Impostor Syndrome , a topic that everyone has the potential to experience. Be Proactive.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

Amazon , announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. According to Amazon, the teams based in Boston are focused mainly on Alexa, Amazon Web Services and Audible.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2018

To change that, merchants and consumers are going to have to find a way out of the “chicken-and-egg” syndrome that is slowing adoption, a report released last week by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found. While […].

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 21, 2020

The Boston-based bank is creating its own solution in advance of the PPP forgiveness process that will start […]. Radius Bank is standing up a Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness tool, even as many banks feel left in the dark by the Small Business Administration, which hasn’t yet released details on how the process will work.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

LendingClub, the publicly traded digital-lending marketplace, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Boston-based Radius Bank, which has $1.4 billion in assets and is partnered with several fintech companies. LendingClub will pay $185 million for the acquisition, which the company expects to pay for itself in less than two years.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

To enhance diners’ experiences in quick-service restaurants (QSRs), managers are utilizing digital innovations, enabling everything from faster orders to more efficient kitchens. However, they’re less enthusiastic about high-profile innovations such as mobile apps and kiosks.). More than six in 10 – or 65.3

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

BuiltIn Boston , an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah , a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Perficient at our Careers page.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 21, 2016

As part of a broader digital-first strategy, Radius Bank partnered with Gradifi, a Boston-based startup, to launch a new MasterCard debit card that will help members reduce student loans. The new debit card will be available in the fall, the company said this morning. Here’s how it works: costumers will Read More.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2019

In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor of Bank Innovation, and Jake Martin, associate editor, discuss the following developments: At the Customer Experience in Financial Services conference in Boston this week, bank executives on several panels spoke […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

In a speech delivered by webcast at the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Innovation Office Hours, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said that the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with researchers at MIT to “build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses.”.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard addressed barriers to financial inclusion at a conference hosted by the Boston Fed and the Aspen Institute in Boston on Oct.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 28, 2017

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation. See you in Boston!

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

While innovation in financial services infrastructure can facilitate high-value cross-border transactions to complete within a day or two, in today’s ecosystem of B2B trade, there is growing pressure for payments to complete in a matter of hours, not days. Accelerating PPE Procurement.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 24, 2019

Radius Bank, a one-branch Boston-based community bank with $1.2 As big banks try to win over customers with digital upgrades that resemble slick user interfaces from fintech startups, community banks are looking at new ways to keep pace with customer expectations. Many are seeing partnerships as the path to growth.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2020

Robots – specifically the Boston Dynamics robotic dog, Spot – have a future as frontline medical responders, it seems. These days, Spot, now modified with a tablet for a “face,” can be found roaming the halls of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The field test comes early in Spot’s life.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 17, 2018

At the JPMorgan Technology, Media and Communications conference in Boston yesterday, Kelly said: Remember blockchain actually is not very good about facilitating low-value high-volume scale transactions, which is the core of what we do. […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The big day has finally arrived — no thanks to Mother Nature, who decided to throw a disruption of her own at the year’s biggest celebration of innovation in the shape of a blizzard named Stella. The fifth anniversary of Innovation Project in Harvard Square today being one extremely tenacious example.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

In meetings and calls with analysts last week, executives from top banks such as Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase and Citi — along with payment companies such as Visa — explained how they are leveraging technology to drive innovation. Bank of America.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2020

Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford. Although Ford is leasing them, Boston Dynamics has recently started selling the robo-mutts for $75,000 apiece. And while Boston Dynamics is one of the better-known names in the robot game, it’s far from the only one.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A new venture capital firm hopes will differentiate it from other fintech investors by taking a more hands-on approach.

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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. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. Everyone needs clean clothes, and those working in the industry have to make a living. The solution is simple, but that doesn’t mean it was easy.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Payments giant Mastercard has acquired Boston-based SessionM, a nine-year-old software company that helps clients improve customer relationships through data analysis.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. By bringing together our leading consumer brand, data science expertise and industry-leading products with SBTech’s proven technology platform, we will accelerate our innovation, growth and scale,” he said. “I

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. First, there … Five financial innovations you may have missed I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The partnership with LevaData comes as Boston-based Bain, through its supply chain management consulting practices, works with companies looking to digitalize their supply chain network.

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BankInovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Allison Baller, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston vice president and head of industry readiness for FedNow, will speak at Bank Automation Summit U.S. She will discuss innovation in real-time payments and how to select the […]

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. This month’s Deep Dive explores how restaurants, such as Chipotle and Shake Shack are innovating their drive-thrus and ordering solutions to satisfy customers’ ever-evolving demands. Developments From The Order To Eat World. About The Tracker.

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BankInovation

MAY 13, 2020

A partnership between Citi Commercial Bank and payments fintech Flywire benefited Boston health care workers last month.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Boston-based Radius Bank, along with its NYC-based partner Mantl, has opened a digital account opening platform, the bank announced. This platform allows users to reduce the time it takes to open a new bank account to under four minutes, the bank said. The platform, which was built in August 2017, has also allowed Radius to […].

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

Boston-based money transfer firm Flywire has launched a new offering, targeted at international business-to-business (or B2B) payments. The fintech will enable faster settlement between businesses, seeking to make those transaction “local.”

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