PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Podcast company Spreaker has teamed up with Staples Connect in Boston and its surrounding areas to be the hosting and distribution vendor in the podcast space at retail stores, according to a release. . The first six locations are opening in Massachusetts, in Cambridge, Somerville, Needham, Boston, Brighton and Danvers. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

“This is not a typical community process, but the conversations will continue,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a press conference, referring to the lack of community input over the elimination of parking spaces. “We Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has said t he next phase of the reopening will include opening dining rooms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

On October 4, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) issued its final four recreational marijuana licenses to businesses, meaning legal marijuana will soon be available for purchase. Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Almost overnight, colleges closed their doors, sent their students home, suspended construction projects, and cancelled sporting events, graduations, and reunions — at enormous cost not only to the colleges themselves but to their home communities. Amherst, Massachusetts is one of those towns.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

So far, it looks like the eatery will pull through — thanks to support it’s received from the local community to make a successful transition from fine eat-in dining to carryout and delivery.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

As it works to address the pandemic with testing, CVS Health plans to open over 50 COVID-19 testing sites at designated CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations throughout Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. CVS Health President and CEO Larry J.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. Ring users place their trust in us to help protect their homes and communities, and we take that responsibility very seriously,” a spokesperson said.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Louis Fed’s community banking research conference, bank CEO Julieann Thurlow outlined Massachusetts-based Reading Cooperative Bank’s innovation journey and how it improved financial inclusion in the communities it serves. In keynote remarks last night at the St.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

The SMB restaurant and food service provider sector was Visa’s first Cashless Challenge target because it is both a segment of commerce that could benefit greatly from digital upgrading, and also one that is slower than other retail sectors to jump on board the digital payments train. Learning For The Community.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. Ring users place their trust in us to help protect their homes and communities, and we take that responsibility very seriously,” a spokesperson said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now that Walmart is officially enjoined in a bid for TikTok with the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, the jury is not out on whether the deal can actually happen, the jury is out on whether Walmart can make TikTok fit into its digital retailing needs. I think there’s a lot of different synergies there.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

While our lending business has served Main Street small businesses for years, we knew that as our sellers and their communities were facing deep economic uncertainty, we could play a meaningful role in disbursing stimulus funds,” said Jacqueline Reses , the head of Square Capital, in a statement. “In

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Anne Tangen, a bank IT expert-turned-CEO at BankFive in Fall River, Massachusetts, talks about BankFive's efforts to reduce friction in the account opening process, as well as her work to smooth the path for talented women in the community bank C-suite.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

cities this year, with big brands testing retail concepts “in real life” with temporary spaces. And, in some cases, brick-and-mortar retailers brought these concepts to their sales floors with their own takes on pop-up shops. Pop-up shops welcomed consumers in malls and major U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Boston, Massachusetts. Through this process, we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”. Politicians across the U.S. But only one can be selected, and the top 20 from which the elect will be chosen include: Atlanta, Georgia.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston.

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American Banker

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Massachusetts company is laying off more than 40 employees with a focus on people working in its retail banking operations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

For their part, the anti-fraud community is hitting back hard. Into the fray steps IBM to partner with Raw Seafoods of Fall River, Massachusetts, on the blockchain-powered Food Trust mobile app. Then there’s the disturbing rise in loyalty program scams. It’s all in the latest PYMNTS Fraud Decisioning Playbook.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

The initial splash is a sizable one, with the contracts signed by the company spanning 850,000 units nationwide, with presence at apartment operators including AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential, among others. Apartment communities and colleges are proving to be early adopters of the package concierge system. “A

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.)

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

These sorts of facilities are becoming increasingly common in the Amazon system; Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Davi all have one.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Online purchasing is a potential lifeline for SNAP participants living in urban neighborhoods and rural communities where access to healthy food choices can be limited,” then-U.S. An opinion, incidentally, that some retailers, particularly Walmart, concur with. Though Walmart is a participant in the U.S. pickup locations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Cambridge, Massachusetts. The so-called “Willow Campus” is envisioned to be a “mixed-use village” that includes a grocery store, pharmacy, 125,000 square feet of retail space, and 1,500 housing units. The grocery, retail, housing and office portions of the project are slated for completion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In November, a Massachusetts man tried to buy an Xbox through the app and successfully met up with the seller, who directed him to a man across the street. Our Community Meetup Spots are critical to that mission.”. The man forked over $20 and explained that the rest of the money was in his car.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

One where grocery stores, restaurants and eCommerce can deliver anything and everything to your home almost instantly by drone, payments are automatic, doctors do house calls, people communicate by FaceTime and most of the labor force works remotely. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

As community banks attempt to grow funding for expanding their loan portfolios, most turn to a tried-and-true method: They promote a certificate of deposit “special.” that sells retail deposit pricing and sales software. Here are five sales methods to win over depositors while retaining your community bank’s funding profitability: 1.

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MyBankTracker

AUGUST 17, 2020

This company offers point-of-sale financing when shopping with retailers. If shopping through the Klarna app, you can use this solution with any retailer. Or, select this payment method when shopping with select retailers online. This includes big banks, credit unions, community banks, and online lenders.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

But once you understand the importance of platform governance, doing good for the community and creating profits go hand in hand. It’s shifting increasingly to converting those browsers to buyers across a diverse set of retail channels for which it enables access. Eventually, the photo was ruled not pornographic.).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region. As Voice-Assisted Retail Gets Emotional, Privacy Issues Loom.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

NARS has already seen a shift in consumer habits in Asia, with countries like China likely topping $1 trillion in online retail sales in the coming years. Shiseido also recently acquired Massachusetts-based artificial skin technology startup Olivo Labs and California-based personalization solution provider MATCHCo.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 23, 2015

Massachusetts banks win in battle with city that went its own way Retail Banking Mortgage Credit Risk. 1Retail Banking'

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Go team is now part of Physical Retail Technologies group within Amazon — an entity created in 2017 to expand the efficacy, efficiency and profitability of the tech such that it could be used more expansively — and sold to other retailers looking to adopt cashierless technology. Big Play of the Week: The Produce Reset .

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Chief Retail Officer. The Running Back/Chief Retail Officer Criteria: I sifted through banks with the best cost of funds and cost of interest bearing liabilities. Selection: Mitch Englert, EVP of Community Banking, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. They "received" their funds, and lent it into their communities. The kicker.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2016

million businesses that line the main streets and side streets of the local communities across the U.S. Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Belmont Savings in Massachusetts isn't trying to fire or replace its employees who work the phones pursuing sales leads, but it has made some technological investments to get more out of them.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2017

These new companies are also offering price optimization tools for traditional industry players as well as for the growing community of companies in the sharing economy, such as home-sharing unicorn Airbnb. Headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts. How is Tech Disrupting the Travel Industry? Disclosed Funding: $8.5M.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Online account opening remains the wild west for most community banks. And naturally I was keenly interested in how to solve this problem, or even diagnose what exactly is the problem, for community banks and online deposit account opening, either retail or business. Community Savings had a >100% loan-to-deposit ratio.

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