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Chapter 11 Watch: Austin Reed Bids Farewell, Staples Plots A New Course

PYMNTS

There’s less and less reason for consumers to actually leave their houses, even when it comes to checking off some rather routine errands, and if shoppers do manage to resist the Amazon Freshes of the world, what are the odds they’ll choose the smaller, regional supermarket brand than the larger, more recognizable one?

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Why Farmers Now Care About Hedging Currency Risk

PYMNTS

Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but impact food prices and the larger global economy without any effort at hedging or risk management. Farmers have always dealt in uncertainty, of course. dollar, trade wars and global political tensions.

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Commoditization, Optimization or Transformation: What’s in Your Core Wallet?

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It has become crystal clear that digital transformation is now the largest technology initiative for regional and community financial institutions. To help banking executives choose a course of action that will accommodate different budgets, business cases, and visions for the future, we present three winning core strategies: 1.

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

PYMNTS

There of course needs to be access to the financial infrastructure that underpins offerings and is part of processes as far-flung as settlement of transactions. Yet now, said Reuters, the Fed has said there is not enough risk management in place to allow FinTechs full-fledged access to the payment system.

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What Lies Beneath: FIs’ Biggest Cyberthreat

PYMNTS

While imagining the threat and costs of a cyberattack that targets regional or national infrastructures might seem overly pessimistic, given that the cheer of the holiday season still lingers, there is, according to Baich, reason for hope. Of course, it can be hard to get one’s mind around that threat, no matter how large.

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Lending Is Failing To Live Up To 2018’s Great Expectations

PYMNTS

regional bank executives were gearing up for a bumper year, according to Bloomberg. Crediting lower taxes, thanks to the end of the year tax reform bill passed by Congress, regional bank executives saw a sudden and notable pick up in both commercial loan demand and a big jump in spending on credit and debit cards. Bancorp said.

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Greenfield Opportunity Looms In India For Online Financing

PYMNTS

Rohit Arora, cofounder and chief executive officer of Biz2Credit, told PYMNTS that, given the wide berth occupied by SMEs in India, across a plethora of verticals, the initial demand would most likely come from the regional big cities in the country and the small businesses within those cities — most likely entrenched in services and technology.

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