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Square Partners With POWDR To Offer Ski Resorts Contactless Transactions

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“POWDR chose to partner with Square because they help elevate the guest experience from enabling fast, secure, contactless payments to integrated online-ordering solutions,” Justin Sibley , co-president of POWDR, said in the release. Bachelor, Oregon; Woodward Park City, Utah; and SilverStar in British Columbia, Canada.

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Subscription Business Models Lead B2B VC Funding

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Venture capital appears to be picking back up in the B2B technology startup community. But it was one startup, which helps other businesses launch their own subscription service offerings, that secured the largest round of the week, perhaps reflecting the rising tide of companies looking to shift business models amid market uncertainty.

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Apple Pay Rolls Out To 17 American Credit Unions And Banks

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The total roster now claims more than 1,600 banks and credit unions domestically, said the site, even as 35 percent of retailers in the U.S. support Apple Pay. As has been reported, Apple Pay is also available internationally in, among other nations, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, the U.K. and Switzerland.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Bob Hickok.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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All industrial banks are chartered in Utah – and there are only 17 such charters issued, 15 of which are currently active. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank. That lending operation has been fairly successful for Square, and has lent out over $1.8

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2013 Edition

Jeff For Banks

versus 68.5%, respectively) and its operating expenses as a percent of average assets compared to peer banks (1.66% versus 3.09%, respectively).So, So, as a branchless bank, BofI has leveraged its significantly lower operating expenses into profit. The branchless community bank operates in the Wilmington-Philadelphia market.

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Funding Lands T&E Firm TripActions $4B Valuation

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It wasn’t the only corporate T&E firm that secured new funding, though, nor was it the only B2B FinTech that raised venture capital. Operating a platform to connect B2B buyers and sellers, Orderful has announced $10 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s new growth fund. TripActions.

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