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Oregon-Based Simple Bank Laying Off Nearly 10 Percent Of Workforce

PYMNTS

Portland, Oregon-based online bank Simple reduced its workforce by nearly 10 percent earlier this week, marking its second round of layoffs in 2017. Among executives leaving the company are its chief marketing officer, chief people officer, vice president of operations and vice president of engineering, according to the report.

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Why now is the time to update your bank’s corporate governance

Independent Banker

During the pandemic, many community banks needed to change how they operated. For this and other reasons, now is a good time to review and refresh articles, bylaws and committee charters to ensure resilience and bolster risk management. But if they see it as a risk management tool, it’s a game changer. By Susan Springer.

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Perficient Colleague Transforms No-Kill Animal Shelter with Technology Skills

Perficient

One of these shelters is the Hood River Adopt A Dog shelter in Oregon. Kurt is accustomed to working with platforms like Adobe Experience Cloud, and s olutions within it such as Adobe Experience Manager, which he describes as “WordPress on steroids.” Kurt hasn’t been working on revamping the website by himself.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

This was the question posed to Bank Profitability students as part of the Oregon Bankers' Association's Executive Development Program (EDP). Shadow Banking refers to banking-like operations that take place outside of the mainstream banking industry. and 53% indirect costs: operations, IT, human resources, etc.

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For This Startup, Scale Was A Matter Of Necessity

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So, how did Vacasa , the online vacation rental home startup, go from managing one beachside cabin on the Washington coast that belonged to the family of one of the founder’s wife to a multimillion-dollar company with more than 1,400 employees that manages over 4,000 properties in the U.S. Italy, Spain, Belize and Chile.

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Vacasa On Using AI To Put Predictability In Home Sharing

PYMNTS

The Portland-Oregon-based company has quietly become a rainmaker in the space, raising $319 million from investors in Q4 2019 alone, bringing its private equity take to nearly $527 million to date. From the outset, Vacasa approached short-term rentals with the mindset of a large-scale property management firm.

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New Report: How Behavioral Analytics Help FIs Block Fraud At The ITM

PYMNTS

Digital banking is reaching unprecedented levels of popularity amid the pandemic, with 89 percent of American bank customers using mobile banking apps to manage their savings and checking accounts. This popularity is not expected to decline once the virus wanes, with the number of online and mobile banking users expected to hit at least 3.6

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