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A New Era for Business Continuity Management for Community Financial Institutions

Jack Henry

The US banking industry has been a vital part of our nation all the way back to 1780 when the Bank of Pennsylvania was founded by Philadelphia merchants to fund the American Revolutionary War.

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Philadelphia Union's Jim Curtin is Wrong About Ted Lasso

Jeff For Banks

men's national soccer team (USMNT). His next appointment was the equipment manager (Nate) because Lasso realized that Nate had superior tactical knowledge of the game. Ted Lasso is a fictious coach for a fictitious 2nd division English football (soccer) league. So why was the reigning U.S. Jim Curtin is a candidate for the U.S.

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If Cash Won’t Die, Why Not Manage It Better Digitally?

PYMNTS

So, in the spirt of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” PYMNTS recently caught up with two entrepreneurs determined to bring digital expertise and efficiency to cash management — the type of cash management that can make or break employees and some business operators, especially in the restaurant space. Better Cash Management?

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The Central Bank Conundrum On Cryptos

PYMNTS

The research into digital central bank money will be conducted through a hub set up by the Swiss National Bank (the central bank) in partnership with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). should not be the first of the bigger countries to issue national digital coins, amid technology that has yet to mature, and that the U.S.

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Banks and CDFIs: Partnering for community impact

Abrigo

CDFIs are attractive partners to banks in part because of their long, 30-plus-year track record of managing capital, with few examples of investor losses. Opportunity Finance Network, the national network of CDFIs, and the CDFI Fund at the U.S. Banks and CDFIs will also frequently co-invest in projects.

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Reinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age

PYMNTS

Once upon a time in retail, the term anchor store referred to the big, national department chains that anchored the various corners of shopping malls and drew consumers into it to shop. Anchor Shop is new, with a retail store Philadelphia and a fulfillment center housed in former New Jersey mall space set to in the second quarter of 2020.

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Fed reported to have reservations about fintech charter

CFPB Monitor

Last July, the OCC announced its decision to accept applications for special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters from fintech companies. Reuters reports that “many Fed officials fear that these firms lack robust risk-management controls and consumer protections that banks have in place.” The article quotes the President of the St.