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Longevity Lessons From The Oldest US Credit Union

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Mary’s Bank of Manchester, New Hampshire, holds the distinction of being the nation’s first and oldest credit union. Mary’s was initially chartered in 1909 by the New Hampshire legislature. Founded in 1908, St. Membership could be obtained by spending five dollars on a share of capital stock.

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Retail Pulse: Walmart Provides Health Career Path; Inspire Brands To Buy Jimmy John’s

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The degrees include health science, health and wellness and healthcare management/administration, offered through Southern New Hampshire University, Purdue University Global, Wilmington University and Bellevue University. The retailer’s 1.5 million U.S. On another note, Best Buy is seeking revenue of $50 billion by fiscal 2025.

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Marketplace Lending And Curbside Delivery Sizzle, Ridesharing Fizzles

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The biggest story this week in grocery came, as it often does, care of the new Whole Foods Market as operated by Amazon. The nation’s largest retailer by sales is partnering with Alert Innovation to build out a robotic fulfillment center in its Salem, New Hampshire store. trillion in cash spent in 2016.

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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But Takach is confident that the law will catch up with technological innovation. The state of New York, for example, rushed to develop the BitLicense, while the Canadian government issued directives only for countering money laundering using digital currencies, preferring to avoid any premature and unnecessary action.

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Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin

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It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. That means bitcoin. despite many other countries already giving it a thumbs up.

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TRENDING: Are Credit Unions The Hipster FI?

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The nation’s first credit union (CU) was founded in 1908 to serve mill workers in the Manchester, New Hampshire area. Today, more than a century later, that credit union is still operational and is now focused on serving a new type of member: millennials. News from the credit union market.

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