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Amazon’s Biggest Campus In The World Opens In India

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The move illustrates Amazon’s aggressive push to expand in the country, despite stiff competition from companies like Walmart, and stringent regulations in the country regarding foreign eCommerce sites. Because of the competition in the region, Amazon has reportedly been considering partnering up with physical stores.

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Financial Inclusion for un-banked People

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Regional banks or specialised rural banks and rural financial institutions will have to play a key role in financial inclusion for inclusive growth. A study conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) shows that financial inclusion of the total population was 39.76 per cent in 2004 which rose to 56.42

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Guest Post: Fourth Quarter and Year End Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

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Its stock markets are said to have led the world markets plunge, with clumsy attempts by their regulators’ circuit breakers to stem declines actually making them worse. In our region, the Philly Fed indices of business activity all turned negative in December, but, hey, higher rates will help, right?

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely. In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. The disruption of asset management. Table of contents.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

To compete, Amazon is investing in product including hiring product managers for devices solutions, which could see Alexa move from the home and office, and into brick-and-mortar or point-of-sale POS. In these regions, consumers can pay for Amazon purchases by visiting a Western Union location and making a deposit in cash.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

CB Insights

Banks have receded from mortgage lending for a host of reasons, principally because the cost of complying with strict regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on loan qualification and capital requirements has made the business more expensive. This helped navigate fragmented regional regulations.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. And just like every other industry, there’s concentration.

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