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Brand Leadership: What does it mean? What should it mean?

Jeff For Banks

If bankers tell me their institution has a superior brand, I want to know what that means. Too often I am told that the FI has a superior brand because customers come up to senior executives and board members on the street and tell them so. Is this our perception of brand leadership? Brand, brand, and brand.

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Mastercard’s Incoming CEO’s Take On The Future Of Payments

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Haythornthwaite has served as chairman since May 2006 and Banga has served as CEO since 2008 — when he took over the helm shortly after the onset of the financial crisis. Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession.

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The Return Of The Celebrity-Backed Brand

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Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. In their hundreds of years of existence, the celebrity endorsement has become an increasingly prominent part of branding — so prominent, in fact, that by the end of the 20th century, they weren’t just endorsing products. 1 on its list of the top 10 emerging restaurant brands of 2018.

Branding 101
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PayPal Closes On Its Deal With Synchrony

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With the completion of the deal, PayPal said it and Synchrony have extended their co-branded consumer credit card program agreement to make Synchrony the exclusive issuer of PayPal’s consumer financing program online in the U.S. PayPal and Synchrony have been partners since 2004 when they teamed up to offer a PayPal-branded credit card.

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How can banks achieve their digital transformation goals?

NCR

Since the global financial crisis in 2008 the profitability and reputation of banks has been under pressure. Those that get their plans right and make the most efficient use of resources are the most likely to achieve digital leadership and prepare their business for the future. Image: metamorworks via iStock.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. Date: Sep 29, 2008. Date: July 1, 2008. Date: April 15, 2008. Arby’s and Wendy’s. Price: $2.34B.

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Etsy: From Hot To Not To Hot Again

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The firm at the time of its IPO may not have had profits, but it did have 54 million active members on its site globally (up from 1 million members when it started in 2008). But hopes remained high for much of Etsy’s early public run. Etsy was also home to 1.4 million active sellers and 19.8 and around the world.

Mobile 101