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A bridge to affordable housing

Independent Banker

When two executives at Woodforest National Bank noticed a dearth of affordable housing options in southeast Texas, they decided to do something about it, partnering with several housing and community groups to launch an innovative mortgage lending product aimed at underserved clients. Aileen McDonough is a writer in Connecticut.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

CB Insights

Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. Select Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Wellcome Trust, GIC, SoftBank Group, DST Global. Valuation: $12B.

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What Shiny New Life Insurance Startups Can Learn From My Mistakes

Tech and Finance

Today, the ecosystem of startups, venture capital, reinsurers, and other players thinking about how to disrupt insurance is exploding. It’s because their innovation paves the way for us to do more. Just like I hope that our innovation has paved the way for others. It’s been a year of challenges, accomplishments, and learning.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Cafe X in San Francisco is one of the first food businesses to successfully integrate robots into its operations. Automatic food: Cafe X. Today, just 2,877 remain.

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

PYMNTS

The American Bankers Association has stated that “we believe the time has come for Congress and the regulatory agencies to provide greater legal clarity to banks operating in states where cannabis has been legalized for medical or adult use.”. It’s about small business loans, mortgages for facilities, and funding for capital improvements.

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