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Investing in America: 7 Strategies and 7 Tactics That Can Drive Business

South State Correspondent

These programs aim, in part, to mobilize the private sector by pairing its capital with public investment to stimulate American manufacturing and infrastructure improvement, creating new jobs plus innovating in industries like clean energy and technology. These acts impact more than 55,000 locations throughout the U.S.

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India Is Now World’s Second Largest Smartphone Market

PYMNTS

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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Virtual cash management: A catalyst for new business models for European transaction banks

Accenture

European banks are in the midst of a ‘perfect storm’ of negative interest rates, regulatory pressures and market disruption, and are in search of new sources of value. At the same time, virtual accounts can be used in new ways to power innovation and new business model propositions (e.g.

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The effects of subsidised flood insurance on real estate markets

BankUnderground

To ensure the availability and affordability of flood insurance to households in flood-prone areas, the UK Government introduced an innovative reinsurance scheme, Flood Re, in April 2016. In a recently published Staff Working Paper , we employ a granular data set of all property transactions and flood events in England.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

3-yr average pre-tax ROA. pre-tax ROA: 3.08%. pre-tax ROA: 2.83%. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. 3-yr average pre-tax ROA. Genesee Regional Bank. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Molly Bennett, executive editor, Independent Banker. Less than $300 million.

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Taking China’s eCommerce Lessons On The Road

PYMNTS

And while enthusiasm for expanding opportunities to access the Chinese market and its billion-plus consumers is as avid as it’s ever been — as evidenced by last week’s announcement of PayPal and UnionPay’s global payments partnership — the bigger commerce story has expanded beyond China in the last few years.

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Virtual Cards and Straight-Through Processing Set To Level B2B Playing Field

PYMNTS

“It’s widely acknowledged in the industry that for a long time, the benefits of commercial cards [for supplier payments] have been … weighted in favor of corporate buyers,” Reid said, adding that “among the innovations and trends we’re currently seeing is the industry’s attempt to redress that balance between buyers and suppliers.”.

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