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Le Pain Quotidien Is Latest Food Chain To File For Bankruptcy

PYMNTS

As The Wall Street Journal reported, the eatery hoped to avert a complete liquidation of its 98 locations in New York, the Mid-Atlantic, California, Illinois and Florida with a proposed $3 million sale of the business to Aurify Brands LLC. Boston-based Legal Sea Foods, which has 37 locations, has closed temporarily.

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The community bank’s complete guide to building trust

Independent Banker

The biggest knock on multifactor authentication is inconvenience, according to Joel Williquette, ICBA’s senior vice president of operational risk policy. People used to say, ‘It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up,’” says Seth Berman, a partner at Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston. Ed Avis is a writer in Illinois.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2021 Edition

Jeff For Banks

The bank was founded in 2006 and operates 19 full-service branch locations in multi-ethnic communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia. SVB operates through 30 offices in the USA, Canada, UK, Israel, Germany, Denmark, India, Hong Kong, and China. MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. But here I go.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

CB Insights

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B. Tempus Labs.

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Talking in a Digital World

Independent Banker

But in today’s world of proliferating digital devices and communication options, customer contact centers, once operating primarily as telephone switchboards, are turning into full-service and multichannel communication hubs. A recent ICBA poll found that 16 percent of member community banks operate contact centers. 1% Don’t know.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications. Collin Canright is a financial writer in Illinois. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. Today’s mobile options.

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