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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

PYMNTS

I’ll leave the political and public policy discourse to others. That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

At least we are not in Boston. It has been nine years since the Fed last tightened policy in June, 2006; maybe they are getting anxious. The US has led the world in energy and oil production from its shale and fracking operations. We need a change of seasons! and should be returned to “normal.”

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Acronym of the Year. Has to be M-O-E. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO. CHANGING MOTIVATIONS.

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Payments And Commerce On The Campaign Trail

PYMNTS

A highly unscientific poll of our coworkers found that the average collection of people waiting for a bus in downtown Boston has a more cohesive political ideology than our staff, who are all supporting wildly different candidates for wildly different reasons. and we did (over 250 of them) , the reality becomes a bit different.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: ChaCha, unable to find financial answers, shuts down operations. Product: Quidsi.

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