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Customer Financial Health: The Responsibility Of Financial Institutions

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from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on payments, commerce and retail innovation, and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in those sectors. David is an active member of the American and Maryland Bar Associations. He received his B.A.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Austin Reed Bids Farewell, Staples Plots A New Course

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Retailers are entering that time of the year where high temperatures settle over just about every part of the continental U.S., brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. For some U.K. Store Closures.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Retail locations: Seven. Yet his steady leadership is paired with a willingness to challenge the status quo cautiously to keep up with an evolving marketplace—a quality that appealed to the bank’s board when it promoted him from loan officer to bank president 25 years ago. By Kelly Pike. The Peoples Bank Co. Coldwater, Ohio.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. We lent to retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, small mom-and-pop stores, barber shops, beauty salons, day cares, churches … we did not turn anybody away,” Frank says. “We Cogent Bank.

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Retail Fizzles, Alipay Sizzles — And Burger Wars Reignite On Mobile

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May flowers did not appear for retail earnings, unless you consider a bouquet of stinkweed a blanket of blossoms. After several quarters of failing revenue, plummeting same-store sales, falling foot traffic and announced store closures from retail CEOs, retail earnings for the first quarter of 2017 were not expected to be stellar.

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