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A Bank Automation Summit Preview: Dissecting the Intersection of Real-time Payments and Automation

Perficient

Perficient is looking forward to joining this conversation with other financial services and payments experts at the upcoming Bank Automation Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 2-3. With all this considered, key strategic topics like buy vs. build, risk, and operational readiness cannot be ignored.

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Walmart Revs Up Second Test Program For Drone Delivery

PYMNTS

For the second time in the past week, the retailer has announced a pilot program to test how well drones will pick up and deliver packages. The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. That trial will deliver similar products to what was announced for Zipline.

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‘Ship-ageddon 2020’ Just Keeps Getting Worse

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UPS imposed shipping restrictions on some large retailers such as Gap, Nike, L.L. The massive Nor'easter appears poised to impact some 47 million Americans, with heavy snow expected to blanket parts of the Northeast and freezing rain lashing parts of Central Virginia and North Carolina with ice. Hot Topic Inc., Newegg Inc.

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UCSD Tests New Drone Deliveries For Medical Products

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A new drone delivery program by Matternet , and operated by UPS , will fly blood samples and other medical necessities to those in need, according to reports. The program will be Matternet’s third, with an earlier UPS partnership having made 1,900 flights at WakeMed, a hospital in North Carolina.

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nCino Ups Its IPO To As Much As $253M

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The Wilmington, North Carolina-based company nCino Inc., The nCino Bank operating system is a single, multi-tenant cloud platform that digitizes client onboarding, loan origination and deposit account opening across commercial, small business and retail lines of business. million by offering 7.6

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Uber May Be Gearing Up For Drone-Delivered ‘Flying Burgers’

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In a job posting, the company noted that it wanted to make delivery drones work by 2019 at the earliest, and have the drones operational in some markets when 2021 rolls around. For starters, rules for operating vehicles out of the vision of ground operators need to be devised by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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New Fashion Startup Bets Its Future On Off-Price Luxury

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It’s hard to find a retail fashion category that’s reliably successful these days. It wasn’t just a move toward affordable luxury that brought her to the venture – it was what she saw as a lack of service from other retailers. Other retailers had the quality, but charged twice the price of her daughters’ cello lessons for a dress.