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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

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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. Grocery pickup from Whole Foods Market is now available in 22 cities.

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Bitcoin Daily: FINMA Grants Licenses To Two New Blockchain Firms; ShortHop Crypto Exchange Launches In Seven New States

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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has granted the first “banking and securities licenses” to two blockchain companies: SEBA Crypto AG and Sygnum AG. states: Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Arizona and Montana. The exchange is already live in California, Washington and Illinois.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

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Figure Pay, he said, with the ability to scan QR codes at checkout, is predicated on the concept of using a blockchain payment rail in lieu of interchange as the network is built out — and across a swath of merchants as large as Walmart and small as localized farmers’ markets (in a type of “barbell” approach) upon initial launch early next year.

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Why Millennials Want To Crowdfund Their Mortgage Down Payments

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Millennials are either dragging down the housing market because they can’t/won’t buy houses, or millennials are both leading the modern mortgage market and simultaneously leading it into the digital age. Those consumers are buying houses, and are a driving force in some markets. The Complex Demographic.

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End-Of-Summer Edition: Retro Malware, Bitcoin’s Surge ‘N’ Split And Apple Watch Sees Other People

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EST in South Carolina, there will be a total solar eclipse — with Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia all enjoying prime viewing slots between start and finish. That same thing will, of course, be looking up. Today, between 12:05 p.m. EST/9:05 a.m. PST in Oregon and 2:48 p.m.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

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Cumberland Security Bank, Inc. First Security Bank of Deer Lodge. Bank of Montana. Tom Swenson, CEO and chairman of the board, Bank of Montana. Bank of Montana. 3 MINUTES WITH… Tom Swenson, CEO and chairman of the board Bank of Montana. “We Allied First Bank, SB. Nebraska State Bank. Neighbors Bank.

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Highlights of IBM Think 2019

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There were opportunities to hear from celebrities like Joe Montana, Tony Hawk, and Rodney Mullen. Like AI, IBM had an announcement about their new hybrid cloud offering “to help businesses migrate, integrate and manage applications and workloads seamlessly and with security across any public or private cloud and on-premises IT environment.”