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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.” What is the pace of change in the organization and markets served? Audit committee?

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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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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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18 Corporate Innovation Labs In Healthcare

CB Insights

” Here, a team of over 60 professionals in healthcare, design, IT, and project management work around a business strategy called design thinking. This simplifies the prescription filling process for patients and improves pharmacy inventory management. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.