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Advocacy at the Grassroots: A Lively Legislature

Independent Banker

We also have been playing what has become an annual game of intense defense—opposing a number of proposals that would enhance and expand the fields of membership and powers of tax-exempt credit unions. From 1992 to 2011, the total shrunk from 299 to 169 institutions, and the trend has not dissipated.) 3616 and A.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding merchants.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Date: October 2011. With Apotheker fired in 2011 for a slew of missteps that had contributed to the company’s massive losses, nothing ever came of the acquisition. Date: August 15, 2011. in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. HP and Autonomy.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

In this world, the only things certain are death and taxes. In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. Many of Franklin’s published aphorisms have survived the test of time and remain quite familiar. A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin.

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The Cashless Top 10

Tomorrow's Transactions

Non cash payments’ share of total value of consumer payments: 89 percent Percent of population with a debit card: 96 percent Bank robberies in Sweden plunged from 110 in 2008 to only 16 in 2011, the lowest level since the country started recording its numbers in the early 1970s. The reason? I was really surprised to see Belgium no.1

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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Liquidity is becoming a problem for these banks, and with their stocks battered daily, they have no ready sources of capital. in the second quarter of 2011. This will act like a tax cut at just the time when it seems Washington DC will not provide one. Don’t Give Up on the Economy It is not time to give up on the economy.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking. These ventures show credit unions are not standing still when it comes to technological disruption, and we hope much is learned from these early risk-taking efforts. THE TECHNOLOGY AWARDS.