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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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Things went off the rails, not surprisingly, in 2008 — courtesy of the financial crisis. More businesses opened than closed — until 2008. In the aftermath of 2008, only 20 counties — most of them rimming major cities and tech hubs — drove 50 percent of small business formation. The mix of these businesses is also very different.

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Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021)

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Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Founded: 2008. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Below is a ranked list of the 17 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. 1,230,000.

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Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Dec 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. Founded: 2008. Lola (acquired by Capital One, 2021) FAB Score = 11. – HQ: Boston. Below is a ranked list of the 17 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. 1,230,000.

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18 Corporate Innovation Labs In Healthcare

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Founded: 2008. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). McKesson and the Mayo Clinic — Center for Innovation (CFI).

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Is It ‘A Bot Time’ For Payments To Jump On The Bot Bandwagon?

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The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. Is it “a bot time” for peeps in payments to get on board and confront the reality that bots are today what apps were in 2007 and 2008?

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

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Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning.