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How Clothing Stores Are Driving Retail Innovation

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To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. The vast majority of retailers believe in trying new business approaches.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as of the end of July. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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Best Banking Books To Create The Modern Banker

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One common question we field is recommendations of books to improve either bank performance or personal performance. These books span a range of banking topics but emphasize second-order thinking, productivity, building client relationships, and innovation. The book also contains the best appendix that you will ever read.

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The Mainstream Retail Future Of AR/VR

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Retail is perhaps an unexpected entrant into the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market, but it’s proving to be an area in which being there virtually can be seamlessly substituted for being there actually. Retail may just sneak up and be the dark horse that pushes the AR/VR movement from niche play to mainstream tool.

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Metro Bank Plunges on Misclassified Assets, Capital Concern

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Metro Bank Plc fell the most since going public after applying an incorrectly low-risk weighting to parts of its loan book, with the British lender’s chief saying he doesn’t know how long the mortgages in question had been wrongly classified. The shares plunged as much as 34 percent Wednesday and the bank’s bonds also fell […].

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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B2B FinTechs Start 2020 Strong With More Than $1B In VC Funding

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While businesses have more sources of capital than ever before, from bank loans to initial coin offerings to alternative online investments, experts are urging small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to take a strategic approach to their fundraising efforts — often by combining a variety of funding sources to mitigate risk. Flutterwave.

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