How to accelerate digital lending with data & automation This webinar focuses on how business lending is changing due to digital transformation and accelerated by Covid-19.
Many years of digital transformation has taken place in the space of just a few months as banks looked at paper-intensive processes such as loan applications and made them digital from end to end. This not only improves the client experience, but slashes many costs associated with lending.
Small businesses are likely to play a key role in the post-Covid economy of 2021 and beyond. The size of this market is so large that there is plenty of opportunity for all size banks. Lending to small businesses has always been seen as expensive due to the array of manual processes required in onboarding, relationship management and so on. Digital transformation streamlines, expedites and reduces the cost of these processes, making this form of lending far more viable for financial institutions, particu
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While Reddit “gamestonks” have grabbed recent headlines, retail investors are also credited with large flows into exchange-traded funds - basically a tradable basket of shares - swelling their assets by more than $1 trillion last year, according to Refinitiv.
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Lululemon continues to outpace sales expectations during the pandemic due to demand for athleisure.
The company has also succeeded in investing in digital growth, including its acquisition of Mirror.
Insider identified 11 power players driving the brand s growth, based on public info and past reporting.
Lululemon had an impressive 2020, and now its gearing up for an even bigger 2021.
The athleticwear company, best known for championing the athleisure trend, has been among the rare few winners of the pandemic as demand for comfortable clothing among remote workers and quarantined Americans has skyrocketed. In its most recent quarter, Lululemon reported a 22% year-over-year increase in net revenue, reaching $1.1 billion, while its e-commerce business nearly doubled, growing by 94%.
WINNIPEG Manitoba researchers have developed a new COVID-19 app believed to be the first of its kind. The app, called COVID-19 Indigenous, was created at the University of Manitoba in partnership with Indigenous leaders. It was made to support the COVID-19 response in Indigenous communities. “It will allow Indigenous communities to document the impacts and their responses to COVID-19 in real time, and everything is aligned with OCAP (ownership, control, access, and possession) principles over their own data,” said Evan Chamakese, community outreach coordinator for the app and a member of Pelican Lake First Nation. “They can share this information with us if they wish, or they can do as they please.”
With this increase, it is for the fourth consecutive day this week that petrol prices has gone up in Delhi and is now Rs 88.14 a litre and diesel Rs 78.38 a litre .Acro