Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2020

SEATTLE — Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Amazon has opened a smaller version of its cashier-free Amazon Go food stores in one of its Seattle offices, according to a report by the New York Post. Located on the sixth floor of Seattle’s famous Macy’s building, it’s only open to Amazon employees and their guests. Interested?” “Yes. the concessions official replied.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Customers increasingly expect banks and other financial institutions to meet them where they are with full functionality, said panelists at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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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. Innovation Program. Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. He said the decision had been made just that morning. Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2019

The customer experience in banking will change drastically over the next 10 years said panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. I think […].

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2018

On Monday the Seattle-based company purchased Mortgage Lenders of America for an undisclosed amount. Online real estate company Zillow has entered the mortgage space. The move solidifies the company’s effort to simplify and streamline the home buying process, according to a company-issued statement.

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JULY 13, 2020

The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. And the retailer ponied up a reported $200 million for pieces of Seattle-based startup CareZone ’s technology, which personalizes prescription drug management for individuals.

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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. 13), the company has raised $400 million in funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP and previous investor T. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Nov. Rowe Price Associates.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

But it is possible to gain control and establish a proactive foundation of well governed, compliant security upon which these cloud projects can be built and managed. At the networking session and the IBM booth, attendees can network with innovation experts, ask direct questions, and see demos of innovative financial services solutions.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom and the operator of the mobile wallet GCash, has landed $175 million in additional venture funding. In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

According to the company, the STEPcom takeover strengthens Descartes’ presence in Switzerland and enhances its B2B toolset around the areas of data pool synchronization, product information management and vendor-managed inventory. That takeover agreement was reached for $14 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The more money in the proverbial bank, goes the thinking, the more money is on hand to deploy for strategic acquisitions, to leverage into R&D (and innovation) or simply weather an economic storm. Even in Seattle, our Eats business is still growing.”. In the last earnings call, management reported that in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

It is thus unsurprising that 95 percent of companies are looking to improve their spend management software this year. Developments in the expense management world are heating up. Putting AI To Work In Spend Management. This is why AI shows promise in the realm of expense management. The Latest Workforce Spend News.

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MARCH 20, 2019

In a press release , Starbucks said the new fund, which is being managed by Valor Equity Partners, will identify and invest in companies developing technologies, products and solutions geared toward the food and/or retail markets. The company launched its first store in Seattle in the 1970s.

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MARCH 25, 2019

To connect food delivery platforms with consumers looking for convenience and cost savings, eCommerce innovators are creating aggregators as price and time comparison tools. as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. percent of QSR managers and 83.6 FoodBoss is available in markets from Chicago to Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

POSaBIT, based in Seattle, already manages millions of transactions for over 120 dispensaries across Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Oklahoma. Even though legal marijuana industry keeps gaining traction — according to one official state estimate, the market in California alone will reach at least $5.1

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The feature is currently only available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, but the eCommerce giant plans to expand it to its other checkout-free stores. Fifty percent of businesses say manual processes, sluggish payments and high operating costs have made managing accounts receivable departments nerve-wracking over the last six months.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Amazon is excited to create more tech jobs in San Diego – a city with terrific talent and a culture of innovation,” said Nate Wiger, general manager of Amazon’s new San Diego office, in the press release. “We San Diego is a place where ideas take shape and innovation happens.

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JUNE 21, 2019

In other brick-and-mortar banking innovation news, HSBC Group unit HSBC Bank USA announced the launch of Pepper, the humanoid robot it developed with SoftBank Robotics America, at the end of May. Pablo Sanchez, who is the head of retail banking and wealth management for HSBC in the U.S.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new housecleaning service, Amazon Home Assistants, offers cleaning services in Seattle, with prices determined by the size of the home and the number of visits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

“Home is a category we continue to evolve, and being Anthropologie’s partner will allow us to introduce dynamic home [products] with a regular cadence,” said Gemma Lionello, executive VP and general merchandise manager, Nordstrom. “We Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Wash.); Bellevue Square (Bellevue, Wash.); Brea Mall (Brea, Calif.);

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MAY 30, 2019

Miami’s tech scene is experiencing positive growth and we see a lot of opportunity for disruption in the region,” Pablo Sanchez, head of retail banking and wealth management for HSBC in the U.S. Pepper has continued to be rolled out and is now available in Beverly Hills and Seattle. Its also aimed at reducing customer wait times.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Job listings posted in December, first noted by Recode , advertised that the company was in the process of looking for brand managers “to build authentic activewear private label brands that have compelling and unique DNA and deliver amazing consumer-valued innovation.”.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Country Manager Lars Petersson said, “We recognize that we are in a rapidly changing retail environment, and to be fit for long-term growth, IKEA is transforming in a way that lets us meet our customers where they are.” As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology. restaurants.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Denver-based fast casual Seattle-style teriyaki chain Teriyaki Madness , which offers digital ordering online and via app, realized several years ago that many consumers were interested in convenient meals they could eat at home. Managing Order Integrity. He explained that the firm is still working to tackle this issue, however. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As autumn kicks in, retail trends are playing out that will have an impact on not only the 2019 holiday shopping season, but also commerce innovation in 2020. QSRs are no exception, with AI-powered voice ordering, inventory management and self-service kiosks becoming more commonplace. Delivery also stands as a hot area of innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The incredible story of innovation now going on in self-service and UR is thoroughly documented in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS. It is an “… intelligent automation solution to help merchants better manage inventory and to reduce labor time and cost,” the report says. Amazon Go’ Cashless.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Ekata Vice President and General Manager, APAC, Tom Donlea had recently moved to Singapore to open new offices when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. In January, I moved to Singapore from Seattle to open Ekata’s new Asia-Pacific office — exactly when this global pandemic started to ramp up. It’s bad, he told PYMNTS, but not all bad.

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JUNE 3, 2019

percent of small QSR managers were satisfied, according to the Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. Seattle-based startup Joe Coffee built a platform to enable customers of local coffee shops to pre-order and pay for their drinks on mobile devices. PYMNTS’ most recent Restaurant Readiness Index found that only 30.7 In fact, 91.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

That’s how Dan Charron , EVP and Head of Global Business Solutions for First Data , sees it and how he describes the latest rollout of its commerce technology solution at CenturyLink Field Event Center and CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , aimed at taking the fan experience to the next level. The Bigger Picture.

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JULY 20, 2016

It’s a partnership that’s been a long time in the making for Shipt, said Community Manager Anne Adams. “As Competitors like Drizly are already up and running with alcohol delivery in 24 cities, and Amazon is testing out a one-hour program in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago and NYC.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Based in Seattle and two years old, Xnor develops low-power edge-based AI. Take the issue of retail security as one example.

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MAY 19, 2016

While a company of Amazon’s size and pedigree always has multiple projects humming on multiple burners, Bezos was asked by attendees to elucidate his plans for Amazon’s B&M bookstores, which as of today include an up-and-running storefront in Seattle and another under construction in San Diego.

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