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CashStar Releases New eGifting Solution

PYMNTS

The gift of giving just got a whole lot easier and more digital, thanks to one Portland, Me.–based According to data from the National Retail Federation, about 15 percent of holiday sales were returned last year — an estimated $90 billion worth of merchandise. based company. Nordstrom is a fan of CashStar’s plan.

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Frugal Consumers Buying More Off-Brand, Off-Price Products

PYMNTS

You can see this trend, too, in Amazon’s recent announcement that it is moving into the lucrative private-label food market. And it’s a market that only seems to be expanding, as store-branded items rose to an all-time high of $118.4 billion in U.S. sales in 2015, which was a $2.2

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Shipping Inconsistencies Plague Nonessential eCommerce

PYMNTS

Knowing that Nike and Amazon were in the process of breaking their sales agreement, we tried a third item: a copy of Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital and Ideology.” Indie bookstore Powell’s in Portland, Oregon couldn’t guarantee that the order would be processed until seven to 14 days. the next day.”.

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Disrupting Insurance: The Other Financial Services Opportunity

Tefkin

To give a few numbers, non-life insurance market world-wide in 2011 was estimated at $1,877.2 The global life insurance market had total gross written premiums of $2,464.2 Take the example of MetroMile based in Portland. Their minimal capital requirement for operating was around USD 45M ( [link] ). billion the same year.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. The “Giant Sucking Sound” Award – goes to the swell of funds leaving banking and ballooning money market mutual funds. and Summit Financial Group, Inc.

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46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles

CB Insights

The coalition plans to create an open standards-based platform for bringing self-driving cars to market, aiming to put its first vehicle, the BMW iNEXT, on the road by 2021. In late 2016, it created a new Autonomous Driving Group (ADG) and committed $250M to auto tech investments through its Intel Capital arm. acquisition of Mobileye.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold 2008 Cordelia Frances Biddle Biddle, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War 2021 Alan S. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm 2009 Lowell L. The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath 2015 Peter L.

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