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Financial Services RESEARCH CENTER

Meet the market. Explore the benefits. Get the facts first with Focus' Financial Services Fundamentals, our complete category primer.


You'll learn:
• Financial services basics
• An overview of the trends, markets
  and products
• 7 reasons to consolidate your financial services




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Your business needs to accept credit and debit cards as viable means of payment. Period. But do you know how to do it? This in-depth market guide to merchant services is the perfect place to start.

FORMAT: PDF    LENGTH: 15 pages

ON-DEMAND WEBCAST:
DATE: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
TIME: 9AM PDT / 12PM EDT

Stuart Lieberman
IT/IS Manager
A New Horizon Credit Counseling
PUBLISHED: Nov 18 2009


INTRODUCTION
Ten of the major credit card companies, under pressure from the public, have announced changes in de ... read more >

Oracle rocked banking platform deals in ’08


INTRODUCTION
Sounds pretty good. But what the heck does this really mean? Forrester defines global power sellers as those boasting “more than 35 new bank ... read more >

Sally Cole Johnson

PUBLISHED: Jun 10 2009


The Remi
The Remi Group
PUBLISHED: Feb 08 2010


INTRODUCTION
10. Inventory Equipment Take an inventory of your equipment and create an asset list if you do not ... read more >

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Freedom supreme answered on Feb. 7, 2010
credit limit is very important too. Chase is generally fairly generous so if you want to spend quite a bit a month, it may be a good option. Not sure what sort of limits Sc ... read more >
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Hailey asked on May 14, 2009
How do you finance a business that's trying to expand?
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www.nikeairforce.us Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the Nation ... read more >
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Karen asked on Aug. 17, 2009
Is cash flow the best way to value a business?
Blake Runckel answered on Aug. 26, 2009
To take Ken's point a little further, the valuation of a business based solely on cashflow could possibly over value or under value the firm based on serveral factors includin ... read more >
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