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Joann files for bankruptcy; secures $132M in new financing

CFO Dive

The craft retailer’s long-anticipated bankruptcy follows a $400k cash retention bonus paid out to its CFO.

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Securing The New Commerce Normal

PYMNTS

For all that has changed dramatically in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumers are still looking for the same two core offerings in every transaction, no matter what it is or where it takes place: seamlessness and security. An awful lot of other things have changed all around that core, however.

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Retailers Using Chapter 11 To Break Lease Agreements

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But the ripple effects are daunting, as the moves could threaten the half-trillion-dollar market for commercial mortgage-backed securities. If this becomes a tsunami of retailers rejecting their leases, it’s going to trigger another part of the sea change — the mortgages held by the landlords.”.

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Retail Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

Barry Ritholtz

billion in retail inventory losses in 2021 was not “attributable to organized retail crime.” That line is just another in a long series of falsehoods put forth by the professional b *s at the National Retail Federation. This costs retailers anywhere between $15-20 billion annually in the US. No, “ nearly half ” of $94.5

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Mastercard’s Cyber Secure Uses AI To Help Banks Fight Cyber Fraud

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Mastercard has unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled Cyber Secure tool suite, which lets banks evaluate cyber risk throughout their ecosystems and stop possible breaches from occurring, according to a Friday (Oct. Furthermore, acquiring banks can help retailers make sense of their own cyber risk, according to the announcement. “At

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MiB: Michael Fisch, American Securities

Barry Ritholtz

This week, we speak with Michael Fisch , CEO and co-founder of American Securities , a $27-billion dollar private equity firm. He is a managing member of the general partners of the American Securities Partners’ series of private equity funds and a member of the investment committee of AS Birch Grove.

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week

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Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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