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Why community banks should partner with fintechs

Independent Banker

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Swashbuckling, nimble, well-funded and unapologetically entrepreneurial, fintechs are offering innovations that allow community bankers to dream big in a host of ways.

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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

PYMNTS

More bankruptcies both announced ( Lucky Brand ) and rumored continue to shake the format. The risk of closing malls, the report said, has the potential to reshape entire communities, which are debating whether abandoned malls can be turned into office space or affordable housing. on the residential component.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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Unveiling the New Perficient People Promise

Perficient

The same way we articulate to our clients exactly why they should do business with us, applying an employer value proposition – sometimes called an employee brand platform – offers candidates and colleagues both the chance to understand the answers to two key questions: “Why do people join Perficient?” communities, and one another.

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Driving STEM Education and Career Opportunities through the Perficient Bright Paths Program

Perficient

As a leading digital consultancy with more than 4,500 global colleagues, Perficient is committed to expanding the expertise of each colleague and creating more opportunities for career growth in the communities where we live and work. We recognize that the responsibility to help drive equity throughout the broader industry falls on us.

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How Madhappy Turned T-Shirts Into A Lifestyle Brand

PYMNTS

When the brand is a well-known luxury provider like Dolce Gabbana, it can charge whatever it wants for a T-shirt, since the customer is arguably not purchasing the shirt so much as the cache of the logo on it. The hoodies feature the brand’s unique hand stitching — which according to Madhappy means that no two hoodies are ever exactly alike.

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Wildfang Is Building Its Brand With Clicks And Bricks

PYMNTS

More and more, digital-first brands are becoming brick-and-mortar-second brands with an intentional presence in the physical retail world — even if that presence is much smaller than the footprint left by the retailers that fizzled before them. The brand says it intends to keep expanding in the fall, with L.A. next on the list.

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