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Vacasa On Using AI To Put Predictability In Home Sharing

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The most visible and talked-about brand in home sharing for years has been Airbnb, with a dominant market position and high consumer awareness, making it a household name. And roughly 80 percent of payments to Vacasa homeowners are remitted via ACH direct deposit.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Merger of Equals Deal of the Year (Credit Union) – Spire Credit Union and Hiway Credit Union put 2+2 together to make a $4 billion institution in the Minnesota market. While Huntington is down like most bank stocks, the pain hasn’t been as severe, and Huntington doubled down on local markets in 2023 by consolidating business units.

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Data Dive, Summer Heat Edition: Venmo Speeds Up, Amex Branches Out And Walmart Takes A Pass

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Arizona temps grounded flights last week when they got about 120, and even the Pacific Northwest saw temperatures get up over the 100 mark in Portland. After Amazon managed to turn the retail ecosystem’s collective head with its announcement that it would be acquiring the nation’s sixth-largest grocery chain, Whole Foods Market.

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Retailers Look To Digital Technologies After Beating The Street

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Still, the earnings announcement comes as mall operators are trying to reboot in an era when the department store is no longer the anchor tenant of choice at many locations and brands like Macy’s and JCPenney continue to shutter brick-and-mortar stores. Basically, as throughput of the network goes up, our driver cost per order goes down.”.

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Disrupting Insurance: The Other Financial Services Opportunity

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In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and payment. To give a few numbers, non-life insurance market world-wide in 2011 was estimated at $1,877.2 The global life insurance market had total gross written premiums of $2,464.2