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Discover Financial Services' credit card loan portfolio is beginning to grow again amid higher consumer spending on gasoline, restaurants, retail and travel. Discover Card sales volume rose 25% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter to $51 billion, Discover announced Wednesday. The Riverwoods, Illinois-based company's overall loan growth rose 4% in 2021, and credit card payment rates remain elevated above prepandemic levels, the company said. In a conference call with analysts Thursday, Discover CEO Roger Hochschild brushed off concerns that the booming buy now/pay later consumer finance trend is hurting Discover's ability to grow loan volume. "There's nothing to support a view that buy now/pay later is having any impact on payment rate," Hochschild told analysts. But Discover also doesn't want to miss out on opportunities in the BNPL arena. "We are actively looking for opportunities to extend BNPL financing to customers through credit and debit ca...

Software as a Service (SaaS) brings a lot of benefits to businesses everywhere — it's usually lower in cost than traditional software, it saves time since there's no installation required, and it makes it a lot easier for teams to collaborate, regardless of where in the world they're working. While they have changed the tech landscape for modern businesses, they have to do a lot more than deliver the promised service. Saas companies have to ensure that every single touchpoint with a prospect is easy and provides an extraordinary customer experience. And all this starts with their website. What Makes SaaS Websites Unique? Since SaaS companies are selling a good user experience (UX), their website is their presentation card. It should be intuitive, secure, and have a responsive design — meaning that it loads fast and works well regardless of the device the web visitor is using. While all of these elements should be a given for any vendor who's following search engine op...

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IN MEMORY OF SIG Long time Islander, Sigurd "Sig" Mordre passed away on Thursday, December 30, 2021, at the age of 83. Sig acquired an infection in his blood and the damage to his organs was swift. The ICU team at Swedish Cherry Hill did an amazing job in giving him a fighting chance. In the end his body was unable to beat the infection. Sig was born in Oslo, Norway and spent much of his youth in Bergen. After graduating high school he went to a science university in Copenhagen, Denmark where he earned a MS in Naval Architecture. Near the end of his education in Copenhagen he met the love of his life, Harumi Makimura, at the Japanese embassy. He completed his degree and made his way by cargo ship to Japan to marry Harumi in 1964, they were married for 58 years. They then went to Sweden for two years before immigrating to the United States just in time for their daughter (Yumi) to be born in Seattle. Sig also shared in the joy of his only gr...

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