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Fat Brain Toys Navigates Pandemic With Agile Business Model

PYMNTS

The pandemic has had a strange, though mostly positive effect on the toy industry,” Mark Carson , CEO of Nebraska-based Fat Brain Toys tells PYMNTS. Another factor that differentiates Fat Brain from its retail peers is marketing. Content marketing is also very important to its overall market positioning.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2014 Edition

Jeff For Banks

capital appreciation and dividends. They are built as a relationship bank serving the Korean community in LA and surrounding areas. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Not so over the three years I have been keeping track. BNCCORP, Inc.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. The Ethereum community is, surprisingly, split on whether the exploit should be fixed. The venture capital backers are no doubt smiling. .

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2015 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. BNCCORP, Inc.

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Q2 Leverages MX Technology to Launch Contextual PFM

Fintech Labs Insights

Directed at regional and community banks and credit unions, the solution gives them the kind of the technology customers are increasingly expecting – and getting – from larger FIs. MX has raised $50 million in funding and includes USAA, TTV Capital, and North Peak Ventures among its investors.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2016 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Summit Financial Group, Inc.