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Uber’s Loss Leaders, LendUp’s Big Push And Citi’s Continuing Costco Calamity

PYMNTS

The flooding in Louisiana — and the various tragedies associated with it — is the dark side of this truism. The transition to the Citi branded Costco cards has been bumpy to say the least. When it comes to weather, no news is usually good news. Odds are if the whether has become newsworthy, things have gone quite badly wrong.

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A Step Ahead

Independent Banker

social media presence. With the average individual spending 100 minutes on social media each day, it’s entirely possible for community banks to share some of that screen time. In McIlwain’s book “The Social Advisor: Social Media Secrets of the Financial Industry,” she assigns each social media platform a moniker.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic).

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