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How Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability

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In addition, the solution allows users to download attachments, and helps SMBs to better understand the state of their financials. These organizations face increased demand during the holidays — when they deliver food to communities in need. Spend Tools To Win The ‘Game Of Keystrokes’.

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Top News In Payments: Bank Closings Hit Rural Areas; Kaspersky Highlights Rise Of Fake Notifications

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Bank Branch Closings Take Toll On Rural Communities. Rural communities with lower incomes or a higher percentage of minorities experienced the most closings, losing 1,553 bank branches in 794 counties, a decline of 14 percent. Urban areas, however, lost only 9 percent of offices in 802 communities.

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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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Retail Pulse: 7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Tech; Staples Debuts Connect Store Concept

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Employees can shop at the store by downloading an app and signing up. Staples is thinking creatively with a new store format that spotlights coworking, podcasting and community events. The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb.

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Finding Falafel Success On Main Street

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Years later, when he found an opportunity to open the restaurant’s first franchise, D’Alessio was ecstatic about bringing the taste he loved during his college days to Boston. The restaurant brought falafel to Boston in a whole new style. as an 18-year-old George Washington University student. Much like Washington, D.C.,

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How can bank boards respond to increased regulatory scrutiny?

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While the larger banks are receiving the bulk of attention, boards at smaller, community banks are realizing that they’re not immune to this heightened attention. For tips on how to provide stress test results to the board, download this whitepaper, Stress Testing: Presenting Results to Your Board. Blog Bank Credit Union'

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Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?

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Specifically, the index focuses on “store fronts,” or the shops that line the main and side streets of our local communities. Petryk founded his chain of ice cream stores in Jamaica Plain, a Boston neighborhood, in 1981. Since then, the business has expanded to over a dozen locations around the greater Boston area.

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