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The New Business Lunch

Schwartz Media Strategies and Apollo Bank hosted a small luncheon at the bank's Brickell branch on May 30. We are convening these events quarterly with the goal of bringing together friends with similar interests to talk about some of the issues driving Miami.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 5:27pm

SoFla: the next entrepreneurial hotspot?


After attending the inaugural Entrepreneur Awards, hosted by the South Florida Business Journal and EO South Florida, I came away with a new appreciation for our region's up and coming businesses.

Submitted by Aaron Gordon on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 8:54am

April 2010: Daily Business Review, “Banks Divided on Value of Social Media”

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Researcher Peter Stackpole recently asked banking customers to fill in the blank: “A bank that has a presence on a social networking site is ________ .”

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May 2009: Law.com, “One Bank Going Where Few Have Before: Social Networking”

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Fernando Capablanca's Union Credit Bank has been on the leading edge of a lot of banking trends, like being the nation's first community bank signatory to the United Nations' green banking program and the first in South Florida to offer an in-house microlending program.

But even Capablanca was a bit cautious about marrying banking to the social media craze generated by YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

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Banks ignore requests to join Florida Chinese drywall litigation

   The Associated Press has reported today that a number of banks that own Florida homes containing faulty Chinese drywall are refusing to participate in a class-action lawsuit against the drywall manufacturer and supplier. According to Podhurst Orseck attorney Victor Diaz, lead counsel for plaintiffs in the drywall class action, banks have received numerous  notices and requests to join the class – both by phone and priority mail – and not a single bank has responded.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 7:28am

2010: A new era in financial services?

by Julia K. Wakefield, Senior Account Executive
2009 was no less than an epic year for financial failure and fraud. And it ain't over yet.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 2:53pm
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