Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I crossriver.com.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. While stores were closed, Fleet Feet saw tremendous growth in its online business. Fleet Feet has come up with proprietary technology to address that.

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MARCH 31, 2020

If there’s any industry that has been slow to transition online, it’s antiques. Two recent moves from leading arts and antique dealers are leading a trend toward online arts and antique buying. Now we’re going to take a smaller storefront and concentrate more online. We’re finally knocking down the barriers online.”.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. The Printed Holiday Toy Catalog Makes a Surprising Return.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S. All in, counting online and in-person wagers, Super Bowl betting was worth roughly $6.8 In a microcosm of the national expansion, New Hampshire’s newly online sports gambling program raked in $2.31

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MARCH 21, 2019

It might not have been inevitable, perhaps, but it was certainly expected: a regulatory backlash concerning the booming trade (both online and in brick-and-mortar stores) of eCigarettes , with their different flavors attractive to younger consumers — including underaged ones. This will have a huge impact,” Hochrieser told PYMNTS.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. When a consumer places an order by voice, it comes through the same ordering channel that an online or mobile order would. The Voice AI Market.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Blockchain is increasingly being separated from cryptocurrency, with an eye toward disparate use cases — some done at the national level. The newswire said that Berlin exists as a “hub” for the industry, where roughly 10 startups focus on blockchain, and end markets span energy, pharma and transportation.

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MAY 20, 2019

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has proposed a national development fund to help invest in social issues, digitization of the economy, education and transportation, according to a report by Reuters. million) to put into the fund. The association said the fund should be independent and fully professional. .

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MAY 29, 2017

And as marijuana becomes less the exciting and elicit provenance of hardcore Grateful Dead fans and everyone’s burnout cousin and becomes more the provenance of mainstream customers, a problem is beginning to surface in the cannabis market, according to Socrates Rosenfeld, cofounder and CEO of Jane Technologies.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

As digital identities fast become a part of everyday life, the identity verification market is expected to reach $12.8 Technology providers are exploring a range of solutions to seamlessly verify customers’ identities, with the biometrics market projected to reach more than $59 billion by 2025. billion by 2024. billion.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) model enables organizations to start using Kadena’s blockchain by quickly provisioning it online, significantly reducing the cost and time-to-market associated with the on-premise installation of other blockchain solutions. The current policy is a non-policy.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Paydek’s infrastructure supports an extensive international base of people and businesses as clients, with handling payments to more than 160 nations. The collaboration will allow for local currency payments via the large international partner network and strong technology abilities of Thunes, according to the announcement.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

New York Venture Bank, a new financial institution (FI) created by big names in the financial services industry, has applied for a national bank charter. The new FI is looking to provide commercial banking products and services to businesses in New York and other markets in the U.S. According to a Wednesday (Nov.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from governments around the world. UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The companies are testing the service in four California and Oklahoma markets, with an eye toward a national launch in 2021. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV announced plans earlier this week for putting more resources toward online shopping operations. Ahold intends to outfit roughly 1,100 U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2020

housing market, which itself is poised to take a hit where no part of the U.S. The housing market depends on the sanguine attitude of the U.S. The quartet includes Zillow Group, Offerpad, Redfin and Opendoor Labs. Their stomping grounds, of course, are tied to the U.S. economy remains unscathed. percent year over year.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Small business software firm Womply is rolling out its cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard companies’ online presence, the company announced on Wednesday (Aug. “Increasingly, the most damaging threats to revenue for small businesses are found online,” said Womply President Cory Capoccia in a statement.

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JUNE 16, 2017

As such, it would behoove retailers to invest wisely in incorporating social media strategies into their overall marketing campaigns. For the Chinese buyer in particular, social media engagement and online shopping activities takes on a unique avenue. Unveiled at Asia’s CES event last week, the Consumer Technology Assn.’s

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JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. He argued that the pandemic did not create the market demand — it merely accelerated it. Great And Lasting Expectations.

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MARCH 21, 2018

In western markets, eCommerce continues to grow steadily — but, more importantly, it’s taking significant hold in less developed markets, opening up opportunities for brands to secure footholds in new regions. Global merchants who wait until these markets are established will arrive too late. PPRO’s Top 10 Growth Markets.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Demand is rising for online services such as those providing cloud-based backups and storage. The cloud storage subscription market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8 Our target audience is young people, who are open to new technologies and solutions and acquire them easily,” Zafer explained.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

11), the finance ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands said they asked the executive branch of the European Union (EU), the agency responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the EU’s 27 nations, to prohibit stablecoins until oversight challenges had been addressed, Reuters reported.

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APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Part of the growth in digital came from online marketing, Niccol told investors when discussing the latest Chipotle financials.

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JUNE 24, 2016

India led the competition with the most funding rounds, as investors supported the nation’s efforts to develop the digitization and sophistication of more traditional business operations: eProcurement, eInvoicing, logistics and supply chain management. market struggles with investor doubt and regulatory scrutiny. But the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

While online commerce has allowed eRetailers to source consumer data and to deliver targeted, personalized advertisements, physical retail has often lacked these capabilities. ECommerce marketers know everything about their customers,” said Mike Bell, COO of Bridg. It’s an item detail, first name, last name and the last four digits.

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MAY 19, 2020

Inmar Intelligence , one of the leaders in digital couponing, reported last week that enrollment in digital coupon programs among the top 30 percent of national grocery chains has grown 93 percent year over year since March 1. Digital coupon redemption in March increased 56.5 percent industry-wide year over year.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

one of the biggest payments processors in the world, one of the top 3 banks in Brazil, one of the big four banks in Australia, the largest national card processor in Europe, and several others),” according to the release. The deals sometimes concerned big players, including “some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world (e.g.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Telehealth technology. Remote learning technology. Online courses & content.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Rohit Arora, cofounder and chief executive officer of Biz2Credit, told PYMNTS that, given the wide berth occupied by SMEs in India, across a plethora of verticals, the initial demand would most likely come from the regional big cities in the country and the small businesses within those cities — most likely entrenched in services and technology.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The restaurant business is: a) healthy for 2020 or b) apprehensive about technology. The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. All of the above.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

People provided access to the online technology of Estonia via an eResidency program are reportedly being connected to digital currency schemes in other countries, Bloomberg reported. Approximately 70,000 virtual IDs have been provided to eResidents from 174 nations. Estonia is a country of 1.3

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JUNE 28, 2017

The company has added Alexa to its Dash Wand product, making it smarter and more capable than ever – and strategically positioning itself to own the emerging online grocery market. “If As consumers continue to get more comfortable ordering food online, Amazon is positioning itself at the bleeding edge of that market shift.”.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

And as PYMNTS has previously reported , the Boston Federal Reserve has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore tech infrastructure. Notably, China’s central bank is already developing and testing a national digital currency in the Asian nation.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Many banks braced themselves for an oncoming surge in the number of consumers accessing their financial accounts online or via mobile banking apps, but safely and seamlessly providing that access remained tricky for many in the space. The Tracker also analyzes how the use of cloud technology can help FIs stay on top of that shift.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Figure Technologies , which works in blockchain-based finance tech transformations, has worked with J.P. This will mark Figure’s fifth online financing facility, in which the company has closed almost $1.5 We hope to build on our 2020 momentum, both in volume and in bringing blockchain into the mortgage market.”.

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