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ABA, associations urge lawmakers to bolster funding for CDFI Fund

ABA Community Banking

ABA joined the Community Development Bankers Association, National Bankers Association and two other associations in urging members of the House and Senate appropriations committees to fund the CDFI Fund for fiscal year 2025.

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Mastercard Supports Women-Owned SMBs With $20M CNote Investment

PYMNTS

Mastercard is marking National Women’s Small Business Month by furthering its support of the female-founded impact investment platform CNote with an infusion of $20 million, the company announced Friday (Oct. This investment is part of Mastercard’s push to “help close the racial wealth and opportunity gap.”.

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Do Private Student Loans Hold Opportunity for Community Banks?

ForwardBanker

By 2025, nearly 20 million students will be enrolled in college and university undergraduate programs, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The post Do Private Student Loans Hold Opportunity for Community Banks? And virtually all of them will have one thing in common: They’ll.

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Navigating The Overstuffed Weight Loss Market

PYMNTS

is largely credited for the global epidemic – even if we are no longer technically the “fattest” country on Earth (congratulations, Nauru ) – the problem has definitively spread inside our national borders. Plus, while the U.S. percent of global GDP. billion in revenue a year.

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International Women’s Day 2023: #CrackingTheCode for a Gender Equal Future

Qudos Bank

As a society there are things we can do in the home, in our community and in our workplaces. by 2025, but we’re currently unable to support this demand. of First Nations people, hold university-level STEM qualifications. Good intent alone will not drive the change we need to see for women and underrepresented communities.

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International Women’s Day 2023: #CrackingTheCode for a Gender Equal Future

Qudos Bank

As a society there are things we can do in the home, in our community and in our workplaces. by 2025, but we’re currently unable to support this demand. of First Nations people, hold university-level STEM qualifications. Good intent alone will not drive the change we need to see for women and underrepresented communities.

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IBM, Reliance Jio, and the chassis for digital finance

Lex Sokolin

from virtual communities to augmented reality. Rather, communications and enterprise infrastructure. You could also look at the things IBM is committed to doing, and see the Chinese national investment plan for 2025 : industry, trade, cloud, blockchain, telecom, artificial intelligence. But this is an opportunity.