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Seeking Banking Balance Between Physical And Digital

PYMNTS

With more consumers moving to mobile transactions over visits to branches, some banks are considering closing brick-and-mortar locations to reduce operational costs. The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Staying on Top of Customer Expectations.

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Challenges for the neo-challengers: Four hurdles to overcome

Accenture

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers? Cybersecurity.

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Grocery Tracker: Time Crunch

PYMNTS

million last month to purchase the retail condo housing Murray’s flagship store, affiliated classrooms, as well as its catering and event operations. Kroger reportedly became a minority owner in Murray’s Cheese back in 2012. The rates were considerably higher among millennial consumers ( go figure ). percent of U.S.

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Charting A Sharing Economy Course For Boat Rentals

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At the same time, two of her brothers are boat owners, and they were complaining in 2012 that they were going to have to sell their boats because they hadn’t used them once in the entire year. Baumgarten showed underwriters how she would build a company and set up operations to mitigate those top risk factors.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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AltFin’s Bumpy Ride Into An Uncertain 2019

PYMNTS

There were plenty of tailwinds that pushed the segment forward: A strong economy, healthy consumer interest in credit and advances in credit scoring technology were all instrumental in pushing more consumers into the market, particularly in the first half of the year. percent since 2012. According to the Federal Reserve , U.S.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

PYMNTS

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. The timing seemed perfect.

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