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Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston

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Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. The 350,000-square-foot facility will be located in Westborough, Massachusetts, which is 35 miles west of Boston.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Two, read and enjoy the 2021 GonzoBanker awards, our annual take on the best things we saw during the year. So which merger was the best in 2021? Doug Larson. THE BANKER AWARDS.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2021 Edition

Jeff For Banks

As a point of reference, the S&P US BMI Bank Total Return Index for the five years ended December 27, 2021 was 60.4%. billion at September 30, 2021. What is unique is, after reviewing the management team and board, there are people of Korean, Malaysian, Indian, and Chinese descent in leadership positions.

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Bain Capital Nets $800M For Business Impact Funding

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The WSJ reported that Boston-based Bain raised the funds even though other global impact funds have struggled with fundraising this year, drawing just $14.6 The managing director was former Massachusetts Gov. billion through Nov. 20 compared with $76.2 billion through the same date in 2019. 20 and takes effect on Jan. Deval Patrick.

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The Week In Happiness: Brought To You By Dancing Robots

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Sadly, we don't live in a perfect world – but the world we do live in managed to cough up a pretty good consolation prize. In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Even so, we think 2021 is the perfect year to truly indulge. Yes, we do.

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Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (June 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

Source: FintechLabs, Crunchbase, SEMrush, SimilarWeb; 16 June 2021. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Rho, a challenger bank, is the newest entrant, launching a charge card last month (13 May 2021). Website visits (May 2021): 750,000 (SimilarWeb).

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Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (June 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

Source: FintechLabs, Crunchbase, SEMrush, SimilarWeb; 16 June 2021. Expensify is more known for expense management, but introduced a corporate charge card in Oct 2019. Rho, a challenger bank, is the newest entrant, launching a charge card last month (13 May 2021). Website visits (May 2021): 750,000 (SimilarWeb).

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