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Marketplace Lending And Curbside Delivery Sizzle, Ridesharing Fizzles

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Curbside delivery is coming to the grocery chain, starting with two test runs — one in Virginia Beach one in Sacramento. Discount grocery retailer ALDI has found itself in an ongoing price war with its competitors: Walmart , Kroger , Target and Lidl. Walmart wasn’t the only retailer trumpeting its efficacy in its last earnings report.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 Online lending . billion people a month who visit it.

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Lease-To-Own Services Make A Comeback With Overstock.com

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Lease-to-own services are making a comeback with eCommerce retailers. The option, provided by Progressive Leasing , allows customers to lease products for as long as a year and is available for over three million products on the retailer’s website. In an announcement , Overstock.com founder and CEO Patrick M.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

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While short-term lending in general has a pretty rough reputation, the pawn loan is the most ill-regarded arena in an already unloved category of consumer lending. The loan amount a borrower can get from a pawnbroker is determined solely by the value of the item itself; as in most forms of short-term lending, there is no credit check.

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CFPB settles with military base retailer and related companies for alleged unlawful debt collection practices

CFPB Monitor

Mishkin As part of this week’s flurry of enforcement-related announcements, the CFPB announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed jointly with the Attorneys General of North Carolina and Virginia against Freedom Stores, Inc.

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Experts May Overestimate SMBs’ Understanding Of Cyber Threats

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” As a small business lending company, QuickBridge noted that small businesses must have access to working capital to adequately recover from a cyberattack. .” ” As a small business lending company, QuickBridge noted that small businesses must have access to working capital to adequately recover from a cyberattack.

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Digital Disruption

Independent Banker

“We are going to have to lean into this digitized world, so that we can continue to serve our customers well into the 21st century,” ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine told the 24th World Congress of Savings and Retail Banks in Washington, D.C., Kelly Pike is a freelance writer in Virginia.