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PayPal Provides $5M In Grants To Support Minority Businesses

PYMNTS

The grants are part of the San Jose, California-based worldwide online payments system’s $530 million pledge made earlier this year to strengthen minority communities and fight for economic equality and racial justice. “To

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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. Then there are the educational and “authentic play” companies that are the godsend of every parent who has had to tell their child to “go play with your toys” since March.

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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

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2015 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 16 locations. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs. BNCCORP, Inc. OTCQX: BNCC) 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.