Bank Innovation

MAY 17, 2016

SigFig, a San Francisco-based robo advisor, partnered with UBS Wealth Management to create and customize digital tools for WMA’s 7,000 advisors, it was announced today. The tools will “complement” the existing expertise of UBS advisors, and not form a separate automated platform, SigFig said.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2016

Yesterday, a Danish bank introduced a bot for simple queries (and soon, transactions) and earlier this month, San Francisco-based startup Dyme, a member of the Spring 2016 Bank Innovation INV class, released a prototype of a Facebook messenger bot whose functionality mirrors that of Dyme’s SMS-based Read More.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

The additional APIs and SDKs should allow more integrations with other technology services and applications. The San Francisco-based bank disclosed the plan in a job posting today. Wells Fargo & Co. will add additional enterprise-level digital capabilities, APIs, and SDKs to its Home Lending platform.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Revolut said its new open banking offer was developed with TrueLayer , a London-based financial technology (FinTech) company. The digital bank’s German customers will now, using the Revolut app, be able to make some money transfers — such as with family and friends — without logging into the online banking systems of other FIs.

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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 It’s 2020, we have technology everywhere all the time, and most people are doing all their research on their phones anyway. trillion market in the U.S. How It Works.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The startup Flutterwave , which picked up $35 million last year in venture funding, has launched an online portal that will enable African businesses to set up online shops. At the time, Flutterwave said it would use the funding to further build out its technology and continue expanding throughout Africa.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Business payments firm FLEETCOR Technologies has acquired accounts payable (AP) platform provider Roger , Fleetcor announced in a press release. The release stated, in part: “The acquisition provides FLEETCOR with a proven, modern automation platform for B2B online bill payment. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The launch of Visa Developer transformed the San Francisco-based Visa’s payments network to an open platform, allowing access to online and mobile person-to-person capabilities, accountholder identification and Visa Checkout.

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JUNE 29, 2020

revved a little higher Monday (June 29) as online car sales platform Shift announced it will go public in the third quarter via a complicated reverse merger arrangement. A spokesperson for Shift indicated that the company expects the move will make online auto sales a three-horse race between Shift, Vroom and Carvana.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Partnerships and technology are becoming increasing important in the delivery space. Postmates Funding.

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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. million, according to Reuters.

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 11, 2016

That trend continues this week, with some San Francisco-grown AI thrown into the mix. Last week this space saw much of the largest fintech funding rounds taking place outside the U.S. This week we witnessed a major push forward in the process of collaboration between financial institutions (FIs) and startups. This Read More.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Embedded Payments A 2022 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco noted that app payments increased as a percentage of total consumer purchases from 11% in 2019 to 15% in 2020, to 29% in 2021. Technology has come a long way since then.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Stripe , the San Francisco-based company which works to build economic online infrastructure, announced in a press release that Mike Clayville , a 36-year sales veteran of companies like Amazon Web Service (AWS), VMware and BEA Systems, would be joining to help grow the company’s global sales organization.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Rental car giant Hertz recently announced it teamed up with startup Shift Technologies , said Fortune. Shift Technologies is an online used-car marketplace. Under the new deal, Shift Technologies will feature and sell used vehicles from Hertz’s rental inventory, giving Hertz access to an additional retail sales channel.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . The company is a defendant in a litany of lawsuits consolidated in San Francisco and awaiting pre-trial actions.

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

In other news, Fidelity’s Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) announced the completion of trials involving a new digital token that will reward employees for performance and attendance. And IBM has won a blockchain patent that would stop drones from stealing packages from consumers.

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APRIL 14, 2020

As an example, Ocado, Britain’s leading online grocer, has had to stress-test an experimental program to automate its warehouses. Tally had its test run at a Target store in San Francisco, although the company has not announced plans to expand as of yet. The robotic rise can be seen in two key areas: fulfillment and in-store.

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JULY 16, 2020

Online learning is likely to become even more prevalent in the months ahead, with many summer camps canceled and questions remaining about how schools will reopen in the fall. The global market for online learning services was projected to grow 28.6 It is now pegging its near-term future on online classes.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Opendoor , a San Francisco-based startup that offers a one-stop-shop for buying and selling real estate, is negotiating to go public with a California blank-check company, Bloomberg reported. Opendoor is in advanced talks with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II, according to Bloomberg sources.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2017

Floyd is responsible for customer insight and digital applications at the San Francisco-based bank, an area that includes the company’s web applications as well as the content and Read More. Marie Floyd, Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Consumer Experience at Wells Fargo, is set to speak at Bank Innovation 2017.

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APRIL 23, 2020

To that end, earlier this month FinTech firm SoFi made the leap beyond San Francisco to Hong Kong, having bought online brokerage firm 8 Securities. billion (in cash and stock) to buy Galileo Financial Technologies, which focuses on payments and bank account infrastructure. As many as 34.2 Drilling down a bit, 47.3

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The tie-in was announced yesterday at the Recode Code Commerce event in San Francisco by Square CEO Jack Dorsey. Users of Square’s virtual payment cards can now link those cards to their Apple Wallets, expanding the company’s reach in the payments sphere once again—this time with Square Cash leading the way. Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2016

In an effort to track product and service efficiency, as well as tease and test possible features of the future, Wells Fargo has launched Digital Express, a pilot program exclusive to its Transbay Gateway store in downtown San Francisco. Within, a section of the lobby displays tablets on a table which confronts customers Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. They’re places where the company already has a presence and where resources and infrastructure could support a technology heavyweight like Amazon. In its first week owning Whole Foods, Amazon saw big victories, especially in terms of online ordering.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Now that San Francisco is on the verge of banning eCigarettes, the question naturally turns to whether other municipalities and states will follow suit. The ban in San Francisco was, at last check, awaiting the signature of the city’s mayor before it became law. Will that happen? Likely not wide scale. New Program.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . The company is a defendant in a litany of lawsuits consolidated in San Francisco and awaiting pre-trial actions.

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JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The company’s other locations for the Go concept are mainly on the West Coast in places like San Francisco and Seattle. The first Amazon Go opened last January at the online retailer’s Seattle, Washington headquarters.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technology is the new norm for restaurant customers worldwide — especially if those customers happen to live in Asia or the Middle East. In another restaurant technology survey of U.S. consumers , 79 percent agreed that restaurant technology improves their guest experience. Customers want convenience. While the U.S.

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MARCH 5, 2020

In a new digital real estate game called Upland, players can buy virtual versions of properties in San Francisco, Cointelegraph reported. The pilfered database reportedly appeared online in February with detail on the flaw in the site that allowed the breach to occur.

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MARCH 29, 2016

It hasn’t necessarily taken a long time for Enjoy to find a foothold among consumers in New York and San Francisco, and this week, the company will be bringing its on-demand services to Los Angeles, followed by a launch in Chicago in May. The tech startup helps consumers find, purchase and learn to use new technology.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

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. The rise of new 5G mobile network technology also promise to spark new deployments of virtual reality in the retail space. and Europe by 2022. VR is expected to generate $1.8

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Wish , the online marketplace, has confidentially filed paperwork to go public with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. 31) in a press release. The company submitted a draft registration statement.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Visa has launched an online resource for small businesses (SMBs) designed to assist entrepreneurs expand their businesses and build stronger customer relationships, the San Francisco-based company announced Wednesday (June 24). It is active in more than 20 countries and designed to meet each region’s unique SMB needs.

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JULY 31, 2020

Colin Walsh got lots of laughs five years ago when he talked of his intention to launch a financial technology (FinTech) startup. the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. Since then, the skepticism has evaporated and the CEO of Varo Money Inc. ,

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