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Best Banking Books To Create The Modern Banker

South State Correspondent

One common question we field is recommendations of books to improve either bank performance or personal performance. These books span a range of banking topics but emphasize second-order thinking, productivity, building client relationships, and innovation. The book also contains the best appendix that you will ever read.

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Airbnb Sees 40 Percent Drop In Bookings; Delays IPO

PYMNTS

With those goes the value of Airbnb , which saw its bookings fall by 40 percent, according to published reports Thursday (March 12). According to independent data from analytics group Airdna, the drop was largest in China (previously the fastest-growing market for the rental platform) and parts of Europe where the virus has hit the hardest.

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Demand For Books Surprisingly Outstrips Supply During Pandemic

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The pandemic has had something of a strange effect on the world of book publishing. Shut-down bookstores and closed classrooms initially depressed sales in the market, particularly of educational books. Overall book sales are up 5 percent year on year thus far, and the pace is picking up, The New York Times reported.

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Booking Holdings CEO Says Travel Recovery Will Take Years, Not Quarters

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Booking Holdings , the world’s largest online travel company, continues to feel the weight of the pandemic, warning investors Thursday (Nov. Booking Holdings, parent company of Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, OpenTable and other online-reservation brands, said gross bookings fell 47 percent in the third quarter from year-ago levels.

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How to Use AI and NLG to Write Marketing Content

Perficient

Back in 2017, Julia McCoy at the Content Marketing Institute, wrote about Content Creation Robots and cited examples from the Washington Post and Associated Press. According to several reports, complete books of fiction have been written by computers. Can I now have an AI-based system write an entire article for me?

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My Summer Internship Experience With the Marketing Team at Perficient

Perficient

Over the past ten weeks, I have had the amazing opportunity to work as a marketing intern with the corporate communications team at Perficient. During my internship, I have been so lucky to dip my toe in several areas of marketing that I am interested in, which has helped me improve my skills and get a feel for different career paths.

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Travel Sites, Airbnb Get Boost In Domestic Short-Term Rental Bookings

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Airbnb said it has booked more nights for U.S. Since the pandemic began four months ago, the percentage of bookings on Airbnb within 200 miles has grown from one-third in February to more than 50 percent in May. The San Francisco-based home-share company is not alone in seeing bookings increase. Among the top U.S.