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JUNE 19, 2020

More people going back to work is only positive news if it can be done safely and in the long term, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren indicated in remarks to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce on Friday (June 19). In terms of the Main Street Lending Program, Rosengren said the effort is off to a good start.

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MAY 1, 2018

Amazon , announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. According to Amazon, the teams based in Boston are focused mainly on Alexa, Amazon Web Services and Audible.

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MAY 29, 2020

If there’s a playbook for Main Street’s migration to digital, Toronto’s Schulich School of Business is authoring a very effective chapter. In 2016, an organization called Digital Main Street was set up by the city of Toronto as a business improvement project for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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BankInovation

MARCH 22, 2024

FedNow, launched just eight months ago, has overtaken its main competitor, The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments network, in terms of the number of banks on the platform.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Boston doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of U.S. 2) that they are running a contest to reward shoppers who pay with Mastercard credit, debit or prepaid cards at BJ’s locations in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. cities, like New York, L.A. The prize?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Behind most every Main Street success story is opportunity-seeking passion and a willingness to risk it all to make the business succeed. 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.

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American Banker

JUNE 23, 2020

Participation in the Main Street Lending Program for midsize companies is partly about public service, but the core business rationale is building "a banking relationship that continues on for some time," the Boston Fed chief says.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Industrial rents in already-expensive cities like Los Angeles and Boston are expected to get a boost because of weed startups, according to Bloomberg Markets. That trend is expected to continue in cities in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, all of which are now legalizing recreational weed.

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American Banker

MAY 24, 2020

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said he expects companies to begin receiving money through the central bank's long-awaited Main Street Lending Program within two weeks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The year started out looking pretty promising to Loic Le Garrec , owner of Boston’s Petit Robert Bistro. Mild winter weather in Boston had led to stronger-than-average performances in January and February, and Le Garrec told Karen Webster in a digital discussion that as March approached, he had every reason for optimism. “I

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MARCH 22, 2017

And, behind the scenes, the brewery’s story is that of an exacting journey of finding Main Street success. and Portland, Maine, where craft breweries are seemingly on almost every street corner like coffee shops, Marvil pointed out. The rapid proliferation of micro-suds has been most evident in cities like Burlington, Vt.,

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American Banker

MAY 28, 2020

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published details on the terms for lenders and borrowers to participate in the facility intended to provide coronavirus relief funds to middle-market firms.

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American Banker

JULY 9, 2020

But Boston Fed chief sees more interest among banks and borrowers if the economy worsens; the failed payments company is being investigated for its alleged role in a $100 million caper.

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American Banker

AUGUST 12, 2020

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said the central bank had acquired stakes in 32 business loans as of Monday, four times the amount from two weeks earlier.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Jim Cunha, senior vice president of secure payments and FinTech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, tells Karen Webster why the Fed is working with MIT to explore digital dollars. The Main Street Rescue That Wasn’t (And Still Isn’t). Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are here to stay — if they work.

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APRIL 10, 2020

But in Maine, at least, the benefits have yet to flow, according to the report. She told the NPR affiliate in Boston that the system routinely freezes, causing applicants to start over. She said staff members are helping 50 clients a day apply for unemployment. Last week we had a lot of that and it was a bit overwhelming,” she said.

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APRIL 28, 2020

And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful. Next year’s budget is a mystery, she told the Boston Globe – which meant when her stimulus funds arrived, they went straight into rainy-day savings. .

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

This week’s main blog headlines are … Why FinTech start-ups think they can beat the banks There’s an old joke about the guy who’s lost driving in the countryside who stops to ask a pedestrian how to get to the city.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford. Although Ford is leasing them, Boston Dynamics has recently started selling the robo-mutts for $75,000 apiece. And while Boston Dynamics is one of the better-known names in the robot game, it’s far from the only one.

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American Banker

JULY 9, 2020

Many big banks say they will focus on existing customers in offering credit through the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program for midsize businesses. Complex vetting and fear of being inundated are said to be among their concerns.

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American Banker

JUNE 19, 2020

Worried about a lack of demand and that some of their customers are ineligible, community banks are still on the fence about participating in the effort to back loans for businesses recovering from the pandemic crisis.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket. Total Disclosed Funding: $51M. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Total Disclosed Funding: $3M.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 27, 2017

The GFCI rates 88 financial centres and finds the top ten are: London New York Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo San Francisco Chicago Sydney Boston Toronto Updated every six months, the main headlines of this half year are: Brexit and the US election have had a significant impact. London and New York fell 13 and 14 points respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But as to what a CBDC might look like in the eurozone, ECB executive board member Yves Mersch said a speech earlier this year that retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer and that retail CBDCs would be a “main focus.”

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The ski/snowboarding option will be available in cities that have mountains and snow, like Anchorage, Boise, Boston, Eastern Washington, Flagstaff and Arizona and Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Lehigh Valley, Minneapolis-St. The option will also be available in many Colorado cities with resorts, like Colorado Springs, Denver and Fort Collins.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers. By blending the physical and digital worlds and enabling users to actively shape their experiences, AR offers unique ways for marketers to interact with consumers,” says a recent report from Boston Consulting Group.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong third quarter financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. These are the top stories in retail for Tuesday (Nov.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In addition, the Pennsylvania-based retailer brought in a new board of directors with members from Boston Consulting Group and Oaktree. “A move like this eliminates a ton of question marks and gives us the ability to focus on the future,” Chief Executive Officer James Marcum said in an interview.

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MAY 27, 2020

Boston-based Legal Sea Foods, which has 37 locations, has closed temporarily. Our main priority remains the health and wellbeing of our employees, guests and the communities in which we operate. Roger Berkowitz, president and CEO, posted the announcement on the company’s website on March 16. We do this out of an abundance of caution.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The pods set up shop in places where the nap-needing tend to gather – university campuses and office spaces being their two main sweet spots – and offer the chance to book a 20-minute to two-hour nap online or on mobile with a few clicks or taps. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. But does it really work?

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S. Leaders reap multifaceted benefits from the technology tools they adopt.” - The Boston Consulting Group Some of the ways technology is specifically helping valuation firms grow include the following: - Providing flexibility.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Equiteq announced that it advised The Shelby Group , an eProcurement transformation and optimization consulting firm, on a recent growth investment from Boston-based private equity firm WestView Capital Partners , according to a press release.

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MAY 1, 2020

It’s understandably an anxious time for Main Street businesses , even as downtowns prepare to reopen. Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. They don’t have VC funds.

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APRIL 2, 2018

“As alleged in our complaint, these investments were sold as a chance to get in early with a seemingly promising FinTech company,” said Paul Levenson, director of the SEC’s Boston Regional Office, in a press release announcing the charges.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Its benefits can also be used when shopping at Joss & Main, AllModern and Birch Lane. The Boston-based company generated $5.7 Wayfair has announced the launch of MyWay, a new paid membership program that offers benefits such as insider sales, discounts on installation and assembly services, free shipping and next-day delivery.

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American Banker

JUNE 15, 2020

Financial institutions interested in participating “are encouraged to begin making. loans immediately,” the central bank said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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