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Zillow Expands Zillow Offers To LA, Orange County

PYMNTS

9), its second-largest housing market in the nation, GeekWire reported. Available in 22 markets, Zillow is planning 2020 expansions to Cincinnati, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma City and Tucson, Arizona. . Zillow Offers launched in Los Angeles and Orange County on Monday (Dec.

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How The Pandemic Made QR Codes Sizzle

PYMNTS

The first was that American mobile-wallet providers pretty much avoided it, starting with Apple eschewing QR codes in 2014 in favor of the higher-tech (and more secure) NFC technology. market is now well on its way to becoming a payments sizzle in a post-pandemic world. Second, U.S.

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The Big Gorilla

Independent Banker

Some of it is soft cost,” and that’s what makes it hard to pin down, says Anita Vogel-Drentlaw, president of New Market Bank, a $99 million-asset community bank in Elko New Market, Minn. First Security, a $180 million-asset community bank in New Salem, N.D., Fearful of mistakes. And Center, N.D.,

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

PYMNTS

Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. As a combined organization, we will bring the most modern solutions targeted at the highest-growth markets. merchant customers.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

As players in the Apple Pay initiative, Visa, MasterCard and ICBA Bancard are working to ensure community bank credit card customers will have full access to the mobile payments system, including its tokenization security measures. Moreover, lingering doubts over the security of mobile channels also surfaced in the Fed’s research.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2015 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. If I haven't confused you enough, they have an SBA division that originates loans in the Jacksonville, Ft.