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Mall Chain Owner Considering Selling Off Its Malls

PYMNTS

The Cleveland-based firm says that it is “reviewing strategic alternatives for its retail portfolio.” According to Chain Store Age , this could mean shifting or significantly reducing its investment in the mall and retail center industry to instead focus on apartments and office buildings.

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Blockchain’s Inroads Through National Frameworks And Trade Finance

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The newswire said that Berlin exists as a “hub” for the industry, where roughly 10 startups focus on blockchain, and end markets span energy, pharma and transportation. The move by Germany would follow at least some initial forays into exploring blockchain use from regions as far-flung as Britain and Singapore.

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Why would anyone want to listen to a podcast from an accounting firm?

Abrigo

But “ unsuitable on Rea Radio ” isn’t your typical accounting podcast, which is why it has been so successful for our firm, Rea & Associates – a regional accounting and business consulting firm headquartered in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

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Visa’s PayWorks Acquisition, Amazon’s Prime Day Top This Week’s News

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Cleveland-based regional banking firm KeyCorp disclosed a massive instance of fraud that could potentially come at a cost of $90 million. In a study, which queried 400 financial decision-makers in 12 industries, 35 percent of firms said they intend to reduce their paper check reliance through the next few years.

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Women in Banking: Activists Target Banks' Pay; Talking Fintech

American Banker

Fed governor Lael Brainard encourages fintechs to tackle financial access and Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester talks about the industry's past and future. Citi FinTech's Carey Kolaja celebrates its first product launch. Plus, people moves at Santander Consumer, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon.

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Not a Session at Acquire or Be Acquired: Culture

Jeff For Banks

I should note that Raphael has not been at his bank very long, and he is not from the banking industry. It is not lost on me that their CEO is also from outside of the industry and relatively new to the bank. Mike is from Cleveland. And surprisingly a Yankees fan. resilience There I go. Culture, culture, culture.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Economic Cooperation (The Trade Kind, That Is)

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It’s defined to include effect on individual industries. Earlier this week, Alexa appeared to, well, have suffered a case of laryngitis when a regional outage that affected Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused the voice assistant to go temporarily silent. Said Ross of trade considerations: “It’s defined to include effect on employment.

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