Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2017

The San Francisco-based company, has made numerous strides, from issuing its millionth loan to expanding its retail partnerships; from preparing to launch new products in the fall to moving into a permanent office space. This has been a good year for Affirm, the lending startup established by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

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MARCH 27, 2019

SigFig, a San Francisco fintech specializing in robo advice, today unveiled SigFig Atlas, an interactive platform for financial advice and software-guided sales that faces both retail banks and their customers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. and Europe by 2022. Amazon VR Push.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. If it’s a hit with users, Amazon plans to bring it to other retailers as well as performance venues and the nation’s offices.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2019

Nyca Partners has closed on $210 million for its third investment fund, a vehicle that will let it continue to support the growth of fintech innovation, David Sica, partner at the New York- and San Francisco-based venture firm, told Bank Innovation. “There’s really good entrepreneurs […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Level, a digital banking startup based in San Francisco Calif., is trying to hook customers with a 2.1% savings account annual percentage yield.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The round was led by Food Retail Ventures and joined by existing investors Innovation Endeavors , Maersk Growth , and Baseline Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup also is welcoming food industry veteran James McCann to its board. McCann is CEO of Food Retail Ventures and a former CEO of supermarket giant Ahold USA.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

We have deep dives on retail’s digital D2C shift, blank-check companies, and DoorDash’s IPO plans. DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. DoorDash Moves Ahead With Q4 IPO Plans. Trackers and Reports.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

To differentiate his eCommerce site from the many other sock sellers, Williams came up with the idea of introducing a vending machine for socks – otherwise known as an automated retail unit – at the Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall. It sits at the Powell/Market Street Bart entrance of the mall’s concourse level.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In one fell swoop, the San Francisco-based startup rebelled against a trend that’s become a table-stakes offering among digital-only banks, including N26’s “Spaces” and Monzo’s “Pots.” ” […].

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. Sixty years ago today (Sept. Today, Visa counts 3.3

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 19, 2019

The Series C funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, will help the San Francisco-based company hire more engineers to help build out more products, according to Erica Dorfman, Tally’s head of finance and operations. […].

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

San Francisco-based credit startup Zero is taking its debit-style credit model to Android. Bryce Galen, CEO and co-founder of Zero, told Bank Innovation the launch is evidence of the growing demand for “financially responsible” credit cards. The company launched an iOS app earlier this year.

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MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. Several companies have stepped up this week with some innovative remote solutions. Retailers can visit the company’s partner page to start the pilot.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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APRIL 14, 2020

COVID-19 could mark the true rise of the robots in retail. After seeing an initial crash due to unprecedented demand when the COVID-19 crisis hit, the retailer is now using robots to pick and pack customer orders. consumers showed a negative stance toward robots at retail, but it will be interesting to see if that changes post-COVID.

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MARCH 17, 2020

It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. The DEO “seeks concepts and an operator to program the space to boost innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrate creative placemaking and feature the Made in Fairfax Network. and San Francisco. But it never happened.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The combination of consumer packaged goods and a single place to buy all the food that went on a consumer’s table from one big store ushered in a huge innovation in consumer convenience, as well as expanding the selection of food that went on those tables. Delivery stands as a big area of innovation. and South San Francisco, Calif.

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MARCH 31, 2020

San Francisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon , one of Russia’s largest online retailers, has been on a growth spurt over the last few years.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.-based Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The San Francisco-based company was one of the early movers in digital money management. By setting aside random amounts of money users don’t immediately need, personal finance app Digit has saved its customers more than $1 billion since its launch in February 2015.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders. In addition to […].

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.”

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo saw a 13% increase year over year increase in its customers’ digital usage […]. EXCLUSIVE – Wells Fargo plans to shut down 300 branches this year and about 5,000 branches by 2020, as the bank sees a surge in digital adaption from its customers, CEO Tim Sloan said on today's earnings call.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The San Francisco-based company, which counts incumbents like Wells Fargo and U.S. Blend, a startup that sells its mortgage application technology to banks, is enhancing its toolkit to help its clients cross-sell other financial products to consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Many retailers have been suffering over the past few years due to the increasing popularity of shopping online. With beauty bloggers, YouTube tutorials and Instagram coming into the mix, the entire beauty retail experience has been flipped on its head. With this new in-store shopping experience, many other retailers are following suit.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4 Shift has also innovated on the automotive finance side. So our whole thesis as a company has always been to innovate what everyone else is overlooking.”.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Though San Francisco startup Zippin has gotten lots of press for being the first cashierless convenience store to compete directly with Amazon Go, Zippin CEO Krishna Motukuri wasn’t hoping for a direct confrontation with the world’s largest eCommerce player when he first started thinking about unmanned stores.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The talks — and the retail offerings — will come to WeWork spaces in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Philadelphia, Glossy reported. The partnership comes as a decline in physical retail has hit J.Crew particularly hard in recent years. Crew has struggled with the retail reset that is sweeping the segment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

As drivers of electric vehicles spend more time waiting at charging stations than drivers of traditional cars spend at the pump, Tesla is planning a retro-themed charging station with retail components in Santa Monica, California. Already, Tesla has built charging stations with some retail components.

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