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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example.

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

PYMNTS

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. Policy put into place must target Main Street.

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Crypto Fails To Impress For Corporate Tax Payments

PYMNTS

to allow businesses to pay their corporate taxes in bitcoin. During the first tax season in which crypto payments were an option for Ohio companies, only two businesses in the state actually used cryptocurrency to do so. Some industry innovators are looking to drive change, however.

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Payments Innovation Fuels Rise In Football Gambling

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It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. More Innovation. Such desire for speed is also helping to drive innovation in other forms of gambling-related payments.

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Amazon Pay’s Gauthier: No One Can Predict Retail’s Future, So Innovate Around What Won’t Change

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Should I leverage the online capabilities?’ — taxes that budget,” Gauthier said. He said that breaks down into three main ideas: First, in a world that’s dramatically more digitized, it will be important to find more ways for merchants and shoppers to connect to each other. Should I send my kids to school or not?

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NEW REPORT: H&R Block On Offering Smarter, Faster Tax Refunds

PYMNTS

Each edition of the Tracker will highlight the innovations and players that are raising the payment bar to develop more intelligent payment systems and processes. How Smarter Payments are Enabling Instant Tax Refunds. Approximately 15 million tax filers begin the process of getting a refund in January.

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Agora Services Debuts New Tools For SMB Banking

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There will also be receipt managing sub-accounts for tax purposes, and other such perks. Community banks have been working to innovate through collaborations with FinTechs. PYMNTS reported that those kinds of partnerships can often be faster than the bank innovating on its own.

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