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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

and about an 80%+ return spent on reducing customer churn, increasing lifetime value and/or helping cross-sell. In comparison, investments in new technology or new business lines pale in comparison to other strategic investments due to the time and effort it takes to get a business line off the ground. Do you remember them?

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Designer Brands Reports 44.7 Pct Drop In Net Sales Amid Pandemic

PYMNTS

The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. percent for the first quarter of 2020, in comparison to a 3 percent rise in the same quarter of fiscal 2019, according to an announcement. reported that net sales plunged by 44.7 percent to $482.8 Comparable sales fell 42.3

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Webrooming Returns For An Encore

PYMNTS

But as the pandemic-driven digital shift gains traction, retailers have to be wondering if consumers will use websites to comparison shop for brick-and-mortar retail (webrooming) or whether they’ll go back to shopping retail to order online (showrooming). Webrooming, before the pandemic, was a full-on retailing trend.

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Inspire Bets $11.3B That Its Brands Can Run On Dunkin’

PYMNTS

Remain true, and perhaps find a way to share a bit of what remains unique about Dunkin Brands with the large — and recently always expanding — number of restaurant brands in Inspire’s stable, particularly when it comes to leveraging mobile tech to build a better customer experience and loyalty offerings. Inspire’s Many Brands .

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Bank IT Spending – Use These Metrics to Improve Performance

South State Correspondent

The good news is that for many other areas, budgets are lower at banks compared to last year, and the fact that IT is still positive underscores the strategic imperative that banks face to digitize traditional operations, reduce costs, gain scale, and improve the customer experience. and 11.1%, with a median of 8.1%

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2017: #1. This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). Old Second Bancorp, Inc.

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Will CECL Be a Plus or Minus for Your Competitive Position?

FICO

Are there some hidden implications of CECL for customer experience and relationship building that I should be considering early in the transition? Other companies may, in comparison, feel like they have lead in their soles. Those decisions will reduce capital consumption and generate even more funds for growth initiatives.