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SMB Spotlight: A Little Love From Mastercard For More To Love Yoga

PYMNTS

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. They lack background on solutions and management. More to Love became an official business in 2013 and only continued to grow from there. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. But they need a jump start.

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How can bank boards respond to increased regulatory scrutiny?

Abrigo

As noted in the OCC’s document, Common Sense Approach to Community Banking , a bank’s board of directors “must determine whether the risks the bank assumes are warranted, effectively managed, and consistent with safe and sound banking practices.” How is the management of risk overseen? How complex is the bank’s operating model?

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The End Of The Uber Experience?

PYMNTS

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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How Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics

PYMNTS

We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce store,” ShipBob Co-Founder Divey Gulati told PYMNTS in an interview. “We While Gulati and his co-founder managed to automate practically every function, there was just one piece of their business they couldn’t wrap their heads around — shipping and logistics.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

PYMNTS

Uber had many wonderful years of asking for forgiveness instead of permission and managed to build a worldwide ridesharing empire on the strength of that conviction. Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks 2013 John F. 2013 Joshua R. The World in Depression, 1929–1939 2013 Charles P. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises 2005 John Jay Knox Knox, John Jay A History of Banking in the United States 2017 Timothy Koch Koch, Timothy Bank Management (8th ed.)

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

PYMNTS

Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space.

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