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Best Banking Books To Create The Modern Banker

South State Correspondent

One common question we field is recommendations of books to improve either bank performance or personal performance. To do this, we teamed up with Jack Hubbard, Managing Partner of the Modern Banker , to bring you our collective favorites. The book also contains the best appendix that you will ever read.

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Bank Product Profitability and Productivity

South State Correspondent

We focused mainly on customer profitability and used risk-adjusted return on capital as a proxy for profitability. As we pointed out, bank management needs to understand how a bank creates franchise value, and one way is to sell more profitable products to more profitable customers. increase in M/B. The answer is – most likely.

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Today In Data: SMBs’ Capital Management, Cash Still Powerful And B2B Apps For Professionals

PYMNTS

This is true for consumers making payments to companies to obtain retail goods and businesses looking to pay each other for services rendered. billion | Amount of working capital on the books for U.K. Today in PYMNTS’ data, U.K. Today in PYMNTS’ data, U.K. Here are the numbers: $179.5

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Shogun Brings Big Retail Tech To Digital-First Retailers

PYMNTS

He needed a name for the company and liked the book. Four years and $35 million in venture capital funding later, Taylor’s company is expanding and simplifying the ability for eCommerce companies to build sophisticated yet simple web stores. Both have been key developments to helping retailers participate in the digital-first economy.

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Bain Capital Technology’s Bet On hey And Japan’s Digital Payments Shift

PYMNTS

And yet Japan remains a heavily cash-based economy, Darren Abrahamson , managing director of Bain Capital Tech Opportunities told Karen Webster. Until recently, retailers had to deal with an incredibly complicated legacy payments network system that was hard to break into. “It

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Small business lending insights Vol. 1

Abrigo

The negative correlation of funded business loans to the Fed funds rate is a staggering 86% as businesses weigh their needs for capital against expensive debt and lenders aim to limit risk. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets.

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USAT: Bridging The ‘Consumer Gap’ In Unattended Retail

PYMNTS

In this case, it’s the gap between interest and intent, the chasm that lies between consumer awareness of unattended retail and actually taking the plunge in buying at the kiosk and vending machine. At a high level, according to PYMNTS data , unattended retail is reaching only one-tenth of its potential. Hurdles For Larger Merchants.

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