Chris Skinner

APRIL 1, 2018

The main blog headlines are … What is the real difference between a challenger bank and an incumbent? I was reading about banks being average to poor at marketing, and wondered about it. Banks’ advertising generally is about either being cool or in love with you. Here are a few … The post The Finanser’s Week: 26th March 2017 – 1st April 2018 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

In a move that devastated, and perplexed, local officials nationwide, Amazon announced the forthcoming home of its second headquarters. It’s going to be Mars. In fact, according to Jeff Bezos, Amazon HQ2 will be the first building to be constructed in Alexalopolis which Amazon’s CEO explained to assembled reporters this morning, will someday be the capital city of Mars itself.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 1, 2018

Every month for nearly 15 years, I have shared my thoughts with you on the top issues of the day in my monthly column. With this column, I pen my last message to you. It boggles my mind that 15 years have passed since my first monthly message, but here we are. Such a different world today than then. But community banking remains and is in many ways stronger today than it was when I arrived at ICBA in May 2003.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

They did it for the children. Amid plans and proceedings underway for liquidation, Toys R Us found a silver bullet in its quest for salvation. With one simple stroke of a digital pen, so to speak, the toy icon changed its name to Blockchain R Us. And the money came rolling in, to the tune of $7 billion in a day, from investors everywhere, and the company’s debt was retired.

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ABA Community Banking

APRIL 1, 2018

First Financial’s Oak Street sub lends to insurance, other verticals Management Lines of Business Community Banking.

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APRIL 1, 2018

My Footprints on the Sands of Time is an autobiography by Professor Bethwell Ogot (wikipedia), an eminent academic scholar. It is a tale of a young man overcoming incredible hardships, and going through early schooling at Maseno, and later through winning scholarships and prizes, on to excelling at Makerere, St. Andrews (Scotland) and teaching with Carey Francis at […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

Credit-reporting agency Equifax announced a family-friendly initiative to recover data of 147.9 million Americans following the largest personal data breach in history. Equifax is inviting those 147.9 million to join a nationwide Easter Egg Hunt as part of its data-recovery effort. “If you or a loved one was affected by the data breach, we invite you to spend a bit of springtime fun in the sun searching your local neighborhood for our Equifax Easter Eggs,” Zeke N.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

From observer to participant. From (digital) ink-stained wretches to newfound riches. PYMNTS is jumping on the initial coin offering (ICO) bandwagon. Because, after all, everyone makes money. Until the money runs out. But not before PYMNTS gets there. In a sweeping announcement Sunday, April 1, CEO Karen Webster stated that the lure of ICOs has proven too much to resist.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

As dawn broke over this Easter morning – and children nationwide were donning their Easter finery and preparing for Easter egg hunts in backyards and church picnics, a buzz of questions were circulating around Washington D.C. – all stemming from one question that Amazon’s Alexa herself refuses to answer directly. Will Alexa run for president in 2020?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2018

To offer customers more ways to buy and sell cryptocurrency, Square and Circle are merging. The new company will be known as Hexagon as of Sunday (April 1), the companies said in a joint statement. “By unlocking the potential of Square and Circle, there’s no doubt that we’re shaping the future of payments,” said a spokesperson for the companies, who only wanted to be referred to as “trapezoid,” in a PYMNTS.com interview.

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