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Fast Action: Tennessee Sportsbook Bets Service Quality On Instant Payments

PYMNTS

Hodges, known as the “Rookie Bookie” on social media, made her comments less than three months after Tennessee became the 20th state to launch sports betting on Nov. We’re growing a market of people who have never bet before in Tennessee.”. We’re bringing sports gambling out of the shadows,” she said.

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Tennessee bank's sale a cautionary tale on out-of-market lending

American Banker

Franklin Financial agreed to be sold less than a year after issues surfaced in its portfolio of shared national credits.

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KFC To Offer Meatless Fried Chicken At Select Locations

PYMNTS

Fried chicken fast-food restaurant KFC is partnering with Beyond Meat to bring meatless fried chicken to stores in Tennessee and North Carolina, according to a report by Reuters. The meat will be tested for a few months in stores throughout Nashville, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Wages At Smaller Firms Reach Record High 

PYMNTS

“Small business job gains have flattened in the second half of the year as labor markets prove very tight,” said James Diffley, chief regional economist at IHS Markit. “In The national jobs index hit 98.16 Tennessee ranked first for job growth, up 2.1 In response, weekly earnings have accelerated, surging from 2.49

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Market Research Tricks

CB Insights

We received a response from a subscriber explaining the trick that market researchers use to do this. I’m a long time marketing researcher (35+ years) and I learned this trick in my first job back in the mid-80’s. So we did a national survey about what brand was your favorite breakfast sausage.

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Walgreens And Kroger Widen Retail Partnership

PYMNTS

and Walgreens Boots Alliance, a Kroger Express grocery assortment and the Kroger Pickup service will come to 35 Walgreens locations in the Knoxville, Tennessee market. With an expansion of a retail partnership between The Kroger Co.

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Unicorns Drowse Through Summer

PYMNTS

The dog days of summer are upon us, and so as bankers head to the beach, shall we assume the flight to market has hit a snooze button? Airbnb , having staked its claim in urban environs, has said that it is open to market regulations in cities of scale such as Vancouver and others. billion, down from $3.4

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