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5 Reasons Your Financial Institution Should Attend ThinkBIG 2021

Abrigo

The 2021 ThinkBIG conference will bring together the “Fighting Financial Crime” and “Manage Risk. The FinCrime track will focus on BSA/AML and fraud detection topics, while the Credit + Lending track will cover topics on managing credit risk and making smarter loans, faster. Drive Growth.”

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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

PYMNTS

For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. Right now, Whole Foods has about 470 stores around the nation – which isn’t much considering the proliferation of Walmart and Kroger stores, but it now has the capital to expand into previously unreachable areas, like Montana.

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Why Goodwill Regions Are Tapping Into Digital Marketplaces

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OfferUp Senior Manager of Business Development Daniel Azoulai said in an announcement for the partnership, “More than half of OfferUp’s 44 million annual users are millennials, and as our most engaged customers, are incredibly aware of their impact on the planet and the value of recommerce.”

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Credit unions continue to see growth in auto lending

Abrigo

The article cited data from TransUnion, the national consumer data collection company, which reported that among the nation’s largest cities, Atlanta (up by 5.9%) and Houston (up by 5.4%) experienced the largest increases in auto loans from the previous quarter. Security Service Federal Credit Union - San Antonio, TX 3.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. Those in south central Texas, which includes San Antonio, supported an estimated 211,000 jobs and contributed nearly $25.2 By Mindy Charski.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Jacksonville, FL. Academic Research Council Members.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C.,

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