US Bank VP Damon Jenkins highlights the importance of diversity and inclusion

Damon Jenkins, vice president, in-store district manager at U.S. Bank, has been in banking for a decade. Rolling out recently caught up with Jenkins and he spoke with us about the importance of diversity and inclusion, how technology plays a role in his position and what qualities and skills his team
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Purdue Pharma will no longer target U.S. doctors in its efforts to sell OxyContin, a prescription opioid whose overprescription fueled America's opioid crisis — and made billions for Purdue's founding family. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Purdue will continue selling the drug, but will no longer
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RiskWise Property Review founder Doron Peleg is hoping his Gold Coast-based start-up, which uses an algorithm to calculate the long-term risks or rewards of investing in property, is the … “If you look at these areas you are not investing in property, you are investing in the commodity market,” he said.
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Walt Disney Co. raised admission prices to its theme parks and said it plans to introduce fixed-date ticketing in coming months to help reduce crowding at peak times. Buoyed by new attractions like Pandora-The World of Avatar, the theme parks and resorts accounted for a third of Disney's $55.1 billion in
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Several other brokerages have also commented on PERY. BidaskClub lowered Perry Ellis International from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 7th. Ifs Securities reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Perry Ellis International in a research report on Tuesday,
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Sydney's overheated housing market is pricing key workers out of metropolitan areas, forcing them to live in suburbs situated hours away from their workplaces. This in turn is threatening the viability of the key services they provide, according to a new report commissioned by member-owned Teachers
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The borough's housing market for 2018 has kicked off with strong sales — 348 homes were sold on Staten Island in January, according to statistics provided by the Staten Island Board of Realtors (SIBOR). With an average price of $571,000 — up from $513,000 in January 2017
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“The commission will hear evidence of events involving certain financial services entities in the context of home lending that suggest that consumers have not always enjoyed the right to be treated honestly and fairly when it comes to home loans,” Orr said. “Some of these events may have involved
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In reading the housing stocktake commissioned by the new Government I was reminded again and again of a very funny skit from an ages-old, largely forgotten, TV programme called The Frost Report. I'm sorry, I cannot find it to link to, but in this satirical skit one John Cleese portrayed a 'newsreader'
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So, the question is, where does collaboration fit in as Dan Ryan Builders goes to market with its new Elevate line? To listen to Dan Ryan Builders' Kurihara and the two architects–Deryl Patterson of Housing Design Matters and Scott Gardner of GMD Architects–brought into a late-2016 four-part charette
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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's margin has expanded on the back of lending limits imposed by the prudential regulator, as the regional bank reported an almost 11 per cent jump in cash earnings compared to the previous first half to $225.3 million, hitting analyst expectations. Bendigo's net interest margin
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Based on a 30-year mortgage worth 2 million baht that is consistently paid down at the same rate, every one-percentage-point reduction in the interest rate will be able to shorten the payment period by six years, said Onanong Udomkantong, executive vice-president and head of retail loan products at
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Major financial institutions have been admonished by the banking royal commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, after it emerged some had been unable to properly complete a list of their misconduct within the requested timeframe. The criticism came on the first day of the royal commission into misconduct in the
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House prices fell by 4.3% in Greater London in the year to January 2018 – the steepest drop since August 2009, LSL's House Price Index has found. The falls are generally concentrated in the capital's most expensive boroughs, with prices dropping by 10.8% in Camden, 18.2% in the City of London and
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The Company's subsidiaries also provide mortgage financing, insurance and title services, primarily for Richmond American homebuyers, through Home … UBS Group reduced their price objective on shares of M.D.C. from $34.00 to $32.00 and set a “sell” rating for the company in a research note on
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The top researcher at China's central bank has called for a new financial supervisory body to be given a “matrix structure” to steer reforms, amid market buzz around alternatives that include merging some regulators. After “balancing the urgency and complexity of the reform”, Xu Zhong concluded that a
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The banking royal commission has started in Melbourne. The first round of public hearings is expected to begin in about a month. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne QC said public submissions form an important part of the inquiry's work, but it does not have the time to examine every case of misconduct in
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The company adds that it, as an external banking complaint body, is held to independence requirements set by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. “ADRBO is committed to providing accessible, accountable, impartial and independent services,” the company said. Lawford told Go Public that
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Submissions so far made to the Financial Services Royal Commission have been about misconduct including falsifying loan documents, poor financial advice, inappropriate lending, and delaying insurance claims. The commission, headed by former High Court judge Kenneth Hayne, today opened with
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YOUR bank account becomes dormant if you don't use it to perform any transaction for two years. Such transactions include withdrawal of cash at a branch or Automated Teller Machine (ATM), payment by cheque, transfer of funds through Internet banking, mobile banking or ATMs, receiving dividend on
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