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Supply Chain Management: Empowering the Future

FICO

The Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA) runs an annual inter-university competition in Canada that exposes students to the real-world supply chain challenges, including international trade regulations and export tariffs. The post Supply Chain Management: Empowering the Future appeared first on FICO.

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The Coffee Shop Office: A Money Drain Or Money Magnet?

PYMNTS

The key was recognizing the trend early and finding ways to capitalize on it, incorporating a workspace culture while also encouraging the community to continue using the café as a social gathering space. He said that has been an important strategy in cultivating community rather than isolation in his shop.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. It does not seem like prudent risk management to do so.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices. What concerned me most wasn’t that the customer was upset with me,” recalls Hartings of the homebuyers who ignored his community bank’s cautiously pragmatic approach. “I Jack got us through that just fine.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. First Community Bank of the Heartland, Inc.

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The Challenges Of Securing The Smart Cities Of Tomorrow

PYMNTS

The city of tomorrow ought to be a community that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems,” Page noted at an industry event in 2019. “A Baltimore, like Atlanta, refused. A city that caters to the people as a service function.”.

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