PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Utah startup WeLink has raised $185 million to roll out its 5G fixed-wireless broadband network in new markets across the United States, the company announced in a Thursday (Jan. The startup, launched in 2018 by wireless industry veterans Kevin Ross and Ahsan Naim, said it has also targeted seven other markets for future expansion as well.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market is close to falling below 50 percent for the first time in over seven months. percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 Before 2017, bitcoin held more than 70 percent of the market — but that was before new cryptos came on the scene.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We Investors are excited by the prospect of an entirely new market for online players to displace traditional sellers,” says the WSJ.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

A reorientation that could prove to be a bit of a challenge, since the COVID-19 outbreak that is spreading around the world seems to have infected the stock market, sending shares crashing through the ground as Wall Street put in its worst performance since the dawn of the Great Recession. Let’s dive in…. Walmart’s Many Resets .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

But for supermarkets Kroger, Supervalu, Weis Markets, Ahold (Stop & Shop) and pretty much any other major grocer in America or elsewhere, the verdict is clear: It is a very bad thing. announced Friday (June 16) that it was purchasing Whole Foods Market Inc. percent and Metro Group 1 percent. Amazon.com Inc. Tesco dropped 4.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What are hiring managers doing, and how is it reflective of the broader economy? hiring managers reported difficulty in finding talent with so-called “soft skills,” the kind of skills workplaces need, said LinkedIn in a new report. Check out below the other data on small business employment released last week. 59% of U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Blockchain startup Clear is embracing distributed ledger technology to facilitate high-volume B2B transactions, with a focus on the telecommunications sector, a market in which telco partners must exchange a high volume of payments and data while ensuring compliance to complex agreements between each other. In the U.K.,

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 8, 2017

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. The Spectator has just written an interesting piece about this: In 2013, Graeme Hartop left his job as managing director of the banking arm of the Scottish Widows investment group. Something is happening. Or are they?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Open Banking is making its rounds across the globe as regulators embrace financial services industry competition, and as financial services players — both banks and FinTech firms — recognize their market opportunities by embracing data sharing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Yes, last week, customers in many major metro areas — and the pedestrians on the streets outside their locations — were treated to the site of Lush employees stripped down to their skin but for their tastefully placed black aprons emblazoned with Lush’s equally subtle slogan: Get Naked! This time, it doesn’t seem Lush has.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

real estate market has spent the summer booming despite an economy hit hard by the pandemic. We’re basically seeing one of the most robust housing markets that we’ve ever seen,” Uher said. “We’re We’re basically seeing one of the most robust housing markets that we’ve ever seen,” Uher said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

20) said that Banking Competition Remedies, which was established to manage the RBS fund, is preparing to announce the first three winners of the money. Metro Bank is in the midst of fallout related to an accounting error, while TBS is under investigation following a botched IT project, reports said.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. The Houston metro took the 10th spot with a 20.3% increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. Deepening roots.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

challenger bank Tide is closing in on surpassing the market share of competitor The Co-Operative Bank , reports in AltFi said this week, highlighting the traction that new market entrants are gaining. s small business banking market. Tide’s current customer count means it has 1.5 percent of the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The Reis data monitors 77 metro areas and indicates that 9.4 There have been indications of trouble in local retail property markets as landlords prepare for store closures after Forever 21 ’s bankruptcy. percent of units were empty in Q3, “equaling a post-financial crisis high reached in 2011,” according to the report.

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TrustBank

JUNE 3, 2021

If you are looking to buy a house, you have likely observed that the real estate market is very competitive, with increased bidding activity leading to higher prices. One reason that the real estate market is so hot is that there is very low housing inventory available. Prices have continued a very strong increase thus far in 2021.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

York Capital Management and Mike Archer, a former president of Applebee’s and TGI Fridays, bought Houlihan’s in 2015 and now blames the chapter 11 filing on a number of factors, including expensive leases, a tight labor market and “the rapid growth in costly third-party delivery.”. Documents filed in U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Delivery companies Point Pickup , Skipcart , AxleHire and Roadie will make deliveries in metro areas across four states, with further expansion planned in the coming weeks. Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. Customers love our Grocery Delivery service.

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BankBazaar

JANUARY 31, 2021

Metro services announced in 27 cities, plus additional allocations for Kochi Metro, Chennai Metro Phase 2, Bengaluru Metro Phase 2A and B, Nashik and Nagpur Metros. A Unified Securities Market Code to be created, consolidating provisions of the Sebi Act, Depositories Act, and two other laws. in 2021-22.

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ABA Community Banking

JUNE 29, 2017

But deal outlook trends down in more rural midwestern markets Management CSuite Community Banking M&A.

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BankBazaar

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Our Chief Marketing Officer, Aparna Mahesh was recently in conversation with the Hindu Business Line to talk about the recent shift in the narrative of marketing and how brands are coping with it. ?. This is another big challenge for marketers. a) My top three marketing buzzwords. Aparna says….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2020

’ biggest metro areas, and one that makes sense for breeding talented real estate businesses. CREXi touts itself as one of the few marketplaces that can take a property from marketing to closing a sale without that property having to leave its service. It has nestled its way into the Los Angeles area, one of the U.S.’

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region. The company will deploy delivery-focused kitchen management solutions from ConnectSmart to more than 900 locations in these two global markets. New restaurant models are also being tested in other markets.

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NCR

APRIL 13, 2017

The market will be particularly active in the UK, where efforts to open up the banking system to more players are expected to bear fruit in terms of encouraging competition and innovation, with more payment services providers gaining access to key systems. million) and £4 million upfront for access to the market. million ($3.12

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Acquiring and relocating a small-market charter to a metro market Management CSuite Community Banking M&A.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

21) that it is rolling out a platform to enable shippers to tap into the company’s network and manage shipments from a personal computer. In August, the company announced it was expanding Uber Freight into new markets across the country, as well as introducing personalized load matching.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to the blog post, the retailer currently has grocery delivery available in almost 100 metro regions and “is continuing to innovate to find new ways to serve customers – better, faster and easier.”. households. Walmart U.S. So, we are on a mission to do more than keep a little extra money in their pockets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ratelt operates as a real-time customer experience management platform, according to reports. The company has expanded from Australia to southeast Asia and clients include Lego, Metro, Pandora and others. ShopKirana.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

The bank will be launched by Recognise Financial Services, founded by Jason Oakley, the former managing director of Metro Bank ’s commercial and mortgages lending business. The funding will help the launch a new financial institution called Recognise, with a focus on lending to SMBs.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

While he and his friends were attending their final semester at the Yale School of Management , they had a plan. The product and marketing plan were locked early in the year. The retail distribution has been limited to a handful of stores in the New York metro area. More traditional marketing efforts will accompany the rollout.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Waving their card at a terminal as they keep right on running for the bus is going to end much better than having to stop and pay cash or to load up their closed-loop metro transit card. Major metros in the U.S. Major metros in the U.S. But for public transit operators — the wins are as obvious as the commuter wins.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. has an updated look and a new focus: the shopping needs of major metro consumers, particularly around grocery.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Better chronic care condition management, Barry said, means that providers need to be in constant touch with their patients — contact he says is made more accessible through Walgreens locations as a touchpoint. Why It Takes A Village of Experts To Properly Manage Primary Care . medical costs.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In my frequent conversations with clients across the UK and Irish banking industry, one of today’s hottest topics is the rise of the challenger banks such as CYBG, Metro and AIB UK, and particularly the neo-challenger banks providing digital-only services, like Monzo, Atom and Starling. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 2, 2021

2/ @Schornack The primary asset of the organization was Flagship Bank Minnesota, a Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender with two locations in the Twin Cities Metro Area. However, it had a great group of employees and was in a market that I knew very well. This was the start of one fun journey that continues today. million in 2020.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The key allegations in the DOJ’s complaint are the following: During the relevant time period (2015-2021), the Newark, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metro Division (Newark MD) as delineated in 2015 included Essex, Somerset, Union, Sussex, and Morris counties in New Jersey (Newark Lending Area).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The supply chain arms race is as competitive as it’s ever been,” said Adam Mullen, CBRE’s senior managing director of industrial and logisitics, Americas leader. Those warehouse spaces are located where one might naturally expect — high-traffic corridors with the best access to major metro areas.

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