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MiHC La Puerta Portal Opens the Door to Success for Hispanic Students in Detroit

Perficient

Perficient is pleased to announce, along with the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative (MiHC), the enhanced availability of the La Puerta portal. The Michigan Hispanic Collaborative’s goal to improve the economic strength of the Hispanic community in Michigan. ” In Michigan, only 15.7%

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Is Amazon’s Delivery ‘Purge’ A Boon To Last-Mile Rivals?

PYMNTS

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. There are another 120 workers slated to be let go in Michigan. “We Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter.

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PetSmart Continues Brick-And-Mortar Expansion With More Store Openings

PYMNTS

In a press release, the company said the latest expansion efforts add to the 35 new stores launched during the first half of the fiscal year, bringing the total count of store openings in the region to 63 stores. Canada and Puerto Rico, and the company operates another 207 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel dog and cat boarding facilities.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Beyond Blockchain: A Seminar on the Possible Future

NCR

They are fully aware of both the potential and the pitfalls of blockchain operations, and they know the subtleties between what it is, what it could be, and what it might be. Regulatory differences between different states, regions and specific providers with different mandates. How to enhance security rather than compromise it, and.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

billion of assets and operates twenty five branches in the western suburbs of Chicago. Interestingly, IBCP recently announced an acquisition in northwest Michigan, five years after they sold 15 branches in the northeast part of the state. Summit also operates an insurance subsidiary. Positive operating leverage!

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A New Kind Of Self-Sustaining Fishery Could Offset The Worst Impacts Of Animal Farming

CB Insights

Commercial operation of offshore fish farms has been limited to date due to regulations, as well as the challenges of efficiently operating a large farming operation far from land. The facility has since been moved to Frohavet – an area off the coast of Norway’s Trøndelag region – where it will remain stationary.).

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