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10 Data-Driven Ideas To Increase Branch Engagement

South State Correspondent

In addition to home and work traffic, retail destinations are also popular. If there is a Walmart near a branch, chances are a material amount of a bank’s traffic comes from or goes to that retailer. Grocery shopping and malls/retail centers are often common post-branch destinations.

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Amazon And Google Face New European Problems

PYMNTS

In news that Alanis Morissette might find ironic — the rest of us might just stick with “interesting” — Amazon earlier this week announced its formal debut in Turkey , saying that its local eCommerce site features products in 15 different categories, including books, consumer electronics, sports, outdoor, tools and more.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Facebook continues to be whipsawed and other major names like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft fell in sympathy with their social media favorite. Consumer spending and retail sales have shown weakness since the fourth quarter of 2017 but we should see improvement. Gas prices remain below $3.00

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What Everyone Missed About Facebook

PYMNTS

That putting what is now the inevitable regulatory screws to social media platforms will impose unwieldly compliance costs on every player, making it harder for new players to emerge and scale, and thereby strengthening Facebook’s position. Anyone who gets it down to one minute should definitely get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). Perhaps bureaucrats would benefit from a brief stroll through an econ book.

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Cash is no longer part of the “real” economy

Tomorrow's Transactions

Tax evaders another. We are taxed to the hilt to make up for the fact that a quarter of the economy is underground and there is a tax gap heading toward £40 billion per annum. I’m paying taxes so that their children can go to school etc etc. MasterCard Social Media Newsroom ]. retail purchases.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail. Malls, retail stores and even some bank branch closings proliferated in 2017. In some slower growth or declining areas of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England, retail is getting slammed. Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Ax) – Power Trip.