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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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Branching Out: Physical Locations Boost CUs' Digital Plans

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Houston-based First Service Credit Union has selected a third-party provider’s digital banking suite to enhance its members’ online access to financial services. As their members began shifting to online and mobile banking channels, CUs have been forced to compete with tech-savvy competitors such as challenger banks and FinTechs.

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What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?

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Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. That’s because China eCommerce giant Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results.

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Warehouse Space Going For Premium Rates

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Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. As of Q2 2016, industrial warehouse space declined by 8.8 percent — the lowest such figure since 2001.

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Kicking The ‘Virtual’ Tires To Spur Car Sales As COVID-19 Hits Automakers

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In one example, TrueCar.com , an online auto marketplace, has forecast that March sales will be down by around 37 percent, and April sales might be down between 50 percent and 60 percent. When you look at March, we basically lost half the month,” Eric Lyman, chief industry analyst at TrueCar, told Reuters.

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Easy Ways BSA Officers Can Get Their Required Training

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Due to the heightened knowledge and expertise required for BSA officers, their training requires resources beyond reading periodicals and online articles and/or completing general staff training,” the Minneapolis Fed’s newsletter said. 21 in Houston, Texas Nov. The one-day meetings, eligible for 5.25 Ready to Attend? Fraud Prevention.

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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

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The worst results came from Lower Manhattan’s Broadway/Houston Street/Broome Street area, where average asking price per square foot tumbled 25 percent year on year. Second, the inability to physically frequent many retail establishments created a new set of online shoppers. That’s one out of every six.