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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. The Houston metro took the 10th spot with a 20.3% Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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Popular Bank Implements Branch Realignment in the New York Metro Region to Enhance Focus on Communities and Small Business Support

PopularBank

Popular”) (NASDAQ: BPOP), bank holding company of Popular Bank, today announced Popular Bank’s strategic realignment of its New York Metro branch network. Popular is committed to meeting the needs of our customers and communities, guided by our 127-year legacy. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – October 28, 2020 – Popular, Inc.

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Mastercard Launches UK Retailer Cashback Initiative

PYMNTS

All of Mastercard’s issuing partners will participate in this new cashback initiative, including Clydesdale Bank, Metro Bank, Monzo, N26, Starling Bank, Virgin Money and Yorkshire Bank. Santander will join later this year. “As As an industry, we have committed to finding sustainable ways to maintain people’s access to cash.

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COVID Spawns Local SMB Loans, Mask Shortages And More Suburban Starbucks

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With federal COVID-19 stimulus programs dried up for the moment and talks to renew them stalled, local communities are looking to fill the void by providing loans to SMBs that have been slammed by the coronavirus. Broadly speaking, we've seen U.S.

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Vacancy Rate At Shopping Centers Hit 10.2 Percent In First Quarter

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The vacancy rate of community shopping centers in the U.S. Reuters , citing Reis, the real estate research firm, reported the vacancy rate in 28 of the 77 metro areas increased during the first three months of 2019. For community shopping centers, the net absorption, which is the available space sold during the quarter, declined 7.4

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Philly Consortium Advances ‘Regenerator’ Concept For SMBs

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The data painted a dark picture for Main Street retail this week, with a new Facebook & Small Business Roundtable study showing that over 30 percent of small to medium-sized businesses have either failed or don’t see a way forward due to the pandemic. Cincinnati, for example, already has a Regenerator-type organization called Cintrifuse.

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Peace Coffee Perfectly Times Its Pandemic-Fueled Growth

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The retail news is full of companies that have made brilliant and sometimes dramatic pivots to catch up with the shift to Digital 3.0. It contributes three cents for every pound purchased into the Carbon, Climate and Coffee initiative, which supports coffee farming communities. But sometimes the pre-pandemic plans work out just fine.

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