PYMNTS

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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MARCH 4, 2020

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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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rob Guilfoyle, CEO of Abe AI, will be speaking at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 in Seattle. Guilfoyle will be on the panel titled “The Future of Banking Experience,” where he will address topics such as the role of natural language in customer experience as well as the type of solutions that can […].

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Joel Kashuba, SVP of Design & Innovation at Fifth Third Bank, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation Ignite, taking place March 11-12 in Seattle. Kasuba brings fresh design thinking to the banking world. He has been at Fifth Third for about a year and a half. Prior to that, he was a professor of […].

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MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to innovation, banks in 2019 should look to partner first, buy second and lastly build, Jeremy Balkin, head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA said at BI Ignite 2019 in Seattle earlier this week. It makes more sense for banks to make a strategic investment in fintech companies than to try and build […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The apparent payments policy shift comes amid criticism that cashless retail discriminates against unbanked consumers. The grocery industry is making a go of it. European Role. the report noted.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Joel Kashuba, SVP of Design & Innovation at Fifth Third Bank, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation Ignite, taking place March 11-12 in Seattle. Kasuba brings fresh design thinking to the banking world. He has been at Fifth Third for about a year and a half. Prior to that, he was a professor of […].

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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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JANUARY 30, 2019

Interested in joining us for Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 at the Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle? In Seattle, you’ll see four Ignite Ideas sessions from the following fintech innovators: Lisa Frazier, Head […]. You’d better hurry! Early registration ends this Friday, February 1 at 11:59 PM.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

As Prime Day continues to roll along, retailers are doing anything and everything possible to capture consumers suddenly inspired to go on a midsummer shopping spree. The plan, Metzger noted, wasn’t to start a retail recycling revolution — or even a business at all. It pretty quickly spread from there. “And

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JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. It allows them to fully immerse themselves into the retail space with convenience and efficiency.”. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Amazon is partnering with nonprofit organization FareStart to launch a job training program in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The eCommerce giant is donating more than 25,000 square feet of retail space to help support living wage career opportunities for those in need. Poverty and income inequality are growing in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail. Deeper Trend.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. According to The Future of Unattended Retail Report from PYMNTS, “Unattended retail touchpoints populate a broad and diverse set of locations, and have taken various shapes and forms.”

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

will speak at Bank Innovation Ignite in Seattle in March 2019 on Building the Future of Banking. Nicolas Kopp, CEO of the N26 U.S., Building the bank of the future is something Kopp knows a lot about. After being one of the early employees of German challenger bank N26, as the Head of Business Development […].

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PYMNTS

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.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is pushing retailers to accept yet another digital wallet at the point of sale -- its own Amazon Pay, which until now has been used almost entirely in the e-commerce world, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. For its part, Amazon is also experimenting with other – perhaps sexier – shipping innovations. The company applied to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

Much like those locations, the new location of Princi in Seattle has ovens that bake items in the store. When you first walk into a Princi bakery, you’re suddenly hit by the energy, the theater, the smell,” Christian Davies, Starbucks VP, creative global design & innovation, said in an announcement.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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PYMNTS

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. This marks the fourth Go store, and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

In other retail news, buy buttons have become so ubiquitous on eCommerce sites that the average shopper might not even notice them. Data: 2018: The year the first Amazon Go location opened in Seattle. Tesco , among other British grocers, is working to bring cashierless shopping to the public in the age of Amazon Go.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Starbucks’ latest innovation doesn’t include camera-driven invisible checkout and doesn’t even come from Seattle. But for rank and file retailers, it may prove even more informative than watching the progress of Amazon Go.

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PYMNTS

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. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI. Based in Seattle and two years old, Xnor develops low-power edge-based AI.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Rapid prototyping and an innovation-oriented mindset are two characteristics that make a bank a good fintech partner, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last week.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Identity proofing and verification startup Diro Labs won the DEMOvation Challenge today at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle. In addition to bragging rights, the company will receive admission to the INV Fintech Accelerator and an advertising package on Bank Innovation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Over the next five years or so, we are going to see a dramatic level of retailers not able to sustain their level of core business as a traditional brick-and-mortar retailer … There’s going to be a tremendous amount of changes with regard to the retail landscape.”. GeekWire reported Starbuck’s earnings at $5.7

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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

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

DECEMBER 12, 2018

With the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle in January , Amazon arguably popularized the cashierless store concept. Since then, the eCommerce retailer has brought the store to other locations in the city and Chicago as well as one location on the way in Lower Manhattan.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Customer demand is driving FIs to move to a realtime payments system, and quickly, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle this week. The need for speed is here to stay. The payment systems that we all run today, they've worked and they've been rock-solid," said Matt Wilcox, SVP of […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North. But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said.

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