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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Boston is home to the world’s “statement race” — the Boston Marathon. you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. Bostonians take their running seriously.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The secondary offering gives Boston-headquartered Toast a valuation of about $8 billion, up from a $4.9 According to the National Restaurant Association, per CNBC, almost 70 percent of restaurants added curbside pickup; some 15 percent of all eateries were forced to close their doors temporarily or permanently.

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APRIL 28, 2020

And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful. Given the triple threat of economic insecurity hitting the population, it’s unsurprising that the data also indicates increased belt-tightening sweeping the nation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

to keep pace with nations like the U.K. In other nations, faster payments plans have gotten more traction after banks were ordered by their governments to speed things up — usually after problems with the older, slower system emerged. The upgrade to the system also allows the U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2020

The deal follows JetBlue’s announcement that it has temporarily consolidated service in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The new schedule comes amid a record drop-off in flying as the nation deals with stay-at-home orders during COVID-19. between April 15 and June 10.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2017

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. The rain and clouds couldn't obscure spectacular views from the State Room overlooking the Boston harbour. National Australia Bank, Australia. IndusInd Bank, India. Fraud Management and Cybersecurity. Millennium BCP, Portugal. OakNorth Bank, UK.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. Department of Justice said in a report that rogue nations and other risks loom as exchanges are lightly (or not at all) regulated for cryptocurrency trading.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As weaknesses in authorization systems can be exploited by online thieves, financial services firms are more vulnerable to hackers and get hit 300 times more often than other businesses, according to the Boston Consulting Group. Threat scan intuitively mimic fraudulent behavior and can be used in conjunction with tools already in place.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In Berlin, where last week saw a two-day meeting of financial officials from Europe, central bankers discussed digital payments and the confines of digital, national currencies. At a high level, officials said that the European Central Bank should be the only one that should issue digital currencies.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

But he noted that Sidewalk would “struggle to match 5G’s national coverage.” It has been well-reported that nascent 5G deployments are currently underway, and Amazon itself announced plans last month to launch 5G server sites in Silicon Valley and Boston for commercial use in tandem with Verizon.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The BIS report issued this week that focuses on “foundational principles” defines a CBDC as “a digital payment instrument, denominated in the national unit of account, that is a direct liability of the central bank.”. Beyond that, national efforts are piecemeal. Fed, the Swiss National Bank and others.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

The report and its objectives (with foundational principles for CBDCs) was done in collaboration between the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, Sveriges Riksbank, the Swiss National Bank and the BIS. In an interview with Karen Webster published Monday (Oct.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. As reported in early April, the National Restaurant Association created the fund to support U.S. As reported in early April, the National Restaurant Association created the fund to support U.S.

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American Banker

MAY 26, 2016

Radius Bank in Boston has recruited a team to lead a national push into Small Business Administration lending. Among the new hires is Diane Gallion, a former executive at The Bancorp in Delaware, who will be national director of government-guaranteed lending at Radius.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Just last week, the company announced the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service that provides customers with broadened delivery and/or pickup options, enabling them to order via Instacart and pick up the groceries at retailers. At that time, the company had a valuation of $4.35

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American Banker

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Radius Bank in Boston has bought a national equipment-finance business from NewStar Financial in Boston.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

22), Boston Consulting Group has estimated that that demand for luxury items could underpin a spending boost on the order of 30 percent as the Chinese economy rebounds. Chinese consumers may be starting to open their wallets to buy luxury goods – but it remains to be seen whether the green shoots will blossom.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In September, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) clarified the authority for national banks and federal savings associations to hold reserves on behalf of customers who issue stablecoins (those coins have to have a one-to-one relationship with a fiat currency).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

But: The bank is keeping an eye on the experiences and progress of other nations, and still is researching its own technological and “policy implications” of wholesale forms of CBDC. As has been widely reported, 80 percent of 66 central banks queried by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) said they were working on CBDCs.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. Membership is $5 per month or $48 a year, which allows users to access free two-day delivery of store products and prescriptions.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The Instant Payments Solution platform from SIBS, launched in 2018 to ensure instant payments processing at a national level, is now also providing these operations between European financial institutions. In the U.S.,

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AUGUST 2, 2016

“The ability to have Dunkin’ items delivered directly to you is something that our guests have been requesting for some time, and we will continue to evaluate a possible national rollout in the future,” Sherrill Kaplan, Dunkin’ Donuts VP of digital marketing and innovation, said in a statement.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the filing , One Medical has nine locations — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. trillion in 2018, as measured by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of National Health Expenditure data.

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JUNE 6, 2019

June brings colorful, high-energy LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations to cities across the nation. Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The attraction and activity operators it serves include Walt Disney World, BigBus Tours, Boston Harbor Cruises, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Hundreds of resellers are part of the Redeam global platform, including popular attractions, theme parks, museums and more.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Boston Consulting Group in September has estimated that the demand for luxury goods could underpin a spending boost on the order of 30 percent as the Chinese economy rebounds. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said August retail sales rose for the first time in 2020 by 0.5 percent from 2019.

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JULY 1, 2017

That is slightly less than the number of people living in Brooklyn today (though still more than the approximately 700,000 people currently living in Boston). 200 million : The number of pounds of gunpowder we collectively detonate at the nation’s approximately 14,000 annual 4th of July fireworks displays. million people. Indivisible.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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MARCH 18, 2019

Shares in Euro payments tech companies rose on Monday (March 18) after news of the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) takeover of Worldpay, a London-based payment processing company, according to a report by Reuters. FIS paid $35 billion for Worldpay and other companies’ shares floated up on the news. billion as of 2018.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

s national railroad system. with a platform called JustRide, which is a cloud-based collection of railways, and we launched in Boston with the city’s commuter rail service,” Donovan said. After finding success with Chiltern Railways, Masabi turned its attention to building a mobile ticketing system for the U.K.’s

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MARCH 15, 2018

On the upside, the bot can remember a previous order (via data pulled from a customer’s DD Perks account), so as long as users can confirm where they want to pick up their orders, they’ll get a Google Map-powered delivery estimate for how far they are from a Boston Kreme or glazed blueberry donut. Will it change the world forever?

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MAY 1, 2020

Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I It stands to reason that hopelessness – or at least a plan B – would start to set in.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

26) that its grocery delivery platform, AmazonFresh, is continuing its march toward national domination with the addition of two new cities : Chicago and Dallas. Amazon announced yesterday (Oct.

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APRIL 8, 2016

The nation itself is among the biggest drawing grounds for offshore wealth deposits. Boston Consulting Group has estimated that as much as $2.5 trillion has resided in the banks there as of recently. Of course, as the news agencies have stated, many Swiss banks have been tied to various financial scandals (e.g.,

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JULY 19, 2020

Filing bankruptcy, for consumers, is sort of an admission that you’re a financial failure, and people just can’t admit that,” John Rao, a lawyer at the National Consumer Law Center in Boston told the Times. The concept of bankruptcy has never been popular among Americans, experts say, because it comes with a stigma.

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MARCH 9, 2017

FBI Director James Comey discussed cybersecurity issues at a Boston College cybersecurity conference this week, highlighting that Americans should let go of their expectations of “absolute privacy.”. There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America; there is no place outside of judicial reach,” Comey made clear to the crowd.

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