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NJ Online Gaming Revenue Set To Grow 66 Pct This Year

PYMNTS

In separate news, reports surfaced in September that mobile sports betting is quickly growing to a point where New Jersey is close to topping Las Vegas as the biggest market in the nation. Mobile betting, however, is only allowed in five: New Jersey, West Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Nevada per earlier reports.

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Boosting Innovation And Mobile Gaming Via Sports

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Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The app was initially available at just six locations in California, Iowa and Texas, but now caters to more than 60 venues across the United States.

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What Is Powering The Emerging Pawnaissance?

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Pawn shops, historically speaking, are “mom and pop” operations, and not the kinds of outfits that tend to attract eight-figure investments in the form of an $80 million senior credit facility to fuel their national and global expansion. Not that Smart Financial ever refers to itself as a pawn shop.

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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

Why don''t we play a critical role in solving the nation''s retirement problem? I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). How can your financial institution stand out in a crowded marketplace?

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Putting The ‘Bar’ In Barber Shop And Selling It On Subscription

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The idea caught on in Omaha — and the firm spread to locations in Colorado and Iowa. In 2017 the firm began licensing out the concept to franchisees as part of an effort to push the Scissors & Scotch concept from a local, mostly midwestern, phenomenon into a nationally-recognized chain. “We

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Ballard, Vice President and Director, First Iowa State Bank, Albia, IA. Hughes, Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage and Retail Lending, First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls, Twin Falls, IA.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Bringing SNAP Recipients Into The Digital Fold

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The big news of the week, the USDA’s decision to start officially moving forward with digital ordering and delivery capacity for 38 million or so Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ), hit both retailers, as they are two-thirds of the grocery participants in the initial New York-based pilot round.

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