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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 2 Advisors recommend that financial institutions look behind some of the headlines and examine their own markets before ruling out CRE altogether. But understanding trends in their own portfolios and local markets can allow lenders to identify risk-appropriate CRE credits. They’re not your hometown.

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What’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?

PYMNTS

According to Redfin , its “agents in both regions are reporting a noticeable jump in calls, emails and tour requests from prospective homebuyers interested in homes in these neighborhoods.” As one can imagine, and as PYMNTS reported, the Amazon move comes with significant incentives. In New York City, Amazon’s $1.2 Alexa Apology.

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Does Apple Pay Growth Signal Contactless Transit Boost?

PYMNTS

Apple Pay is now live in 24 markets worldwide with over 4,900 bank partners, and we look forward to adding Germany later this year,” he said, adding that recent retail deals involving eBay, CVS and 7-Eleven promise to make the payments tool attractive to more consumers. Chicago View. Contactless Reality.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. Stripe’s market opportunity.

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How Prepaid Cards Played A Role In El Chapo’s Global Drug Operation

PYMNTS

-Mexico border (sophisticated tunnels, modified trains and rail spurs, even jalapeño cans designed to fool border inspectors), and whose main distribution points were Lost Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Criminals can direct federal or state tax authorities to issue fraudulent tax refunds on prepaid debit cards.”.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 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. billion of assets and operates twenty five branches in the western suburbs of Chicago. million.