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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week

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Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail. Like this one.

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CRE Credit Risk – What You Need To Know Now

South State Correspondent

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure. This article explores the risk and what to do about it.

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Watch: Chris Tremont on Radius Bank’s tech roadmap

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Radius Bank reaches a national customer base through its digital channels and powers banking services for fintechs like Brex and NorthOne. It’s a business plan the former community bank, which was founded in 1987, spent years developing and continues to improve today. “As

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

With financial hardship, competition from dominant players, and a startup budget, Gentle Monster faced many of the same challenges as a community bank. How Banks Can Leverage: Niche markets abound in banking, and community banks are in the perfect position to create a following on a national level should they desire.

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Pop-Up Marketplace Appear Here Sees $12M Series B

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Short-term retail rental startup Appear Here , a company whose marketplace was built to serve the growing ‘pop-up’ trend in retail, just recently raised some $12 million in a Series B venture funding round. as well as internationally, breaking into Paris and more recently New York City.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. By 2013, those numbers had deteriorated — and by a lot. So, what does this all have to do with retail?

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Can Six Days Make (Or Break) The Holiday 2019 Shopping Season?

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Thanksgiving outlived Lincoln, and every president that followed him offered the same proclamation every year declaring a national day of Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. There was the small matter of a raging depression — and retailers argued that the shortened shopping season could do them in.

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