PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A summer lull in B2B venture capital appears to have given way to an impressive start to the fall season. This week, two massive deals landed with B2B payments innovators at Fundbox and Tipalti, but they were far from the only players to have secured new funding. said this week. ZenBusiness.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. GonzoBanker of the Year – Bank. The Bank That Gets Fintech. RIP, Brandon Dewitt.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Leaders need to be honest about succession plans and realistic about the Fed and rate shifts, which led to compressed margins and pressures on investment portfolios and contributed to the failures of First Republic, Signature and Silicon Valley banks. While the mood felt upbeat and optimistic (maybe it was the sunny and mid-70s weather?),

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Chris Myers, President & CEO, Citizens Business Bank – During a tumultuous time for West Coast banks, Myers kept his sights on being a top commercial relationship bank. The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar! John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. The scariest thing for Facebook is the people who use it.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This deal looks good for Temenos, Kony and the banking industry clients of both firms. The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totaling $580 million.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The deal’s value represents about 30% of IBM’s current stock-market capitalization. These innovative thinkers are taking the initial thoughts from everything in the cloud to perhaps a more realistic (but still to be proven) hybrid model where “compute anywhere” mixes local and cloud-based resources.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

I’m excited going into 2023, because we have the capital to do more and make a difference in the communities that we serve.”. James Sills, M&F Bank. Q: What do you see as your bank’s greatest business opportunity in 2023, and what steps are you taking to make the most of it? It’s a major undertaking for a bank of our size.

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Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

much of it flowing to data aggregators, banking-as-a-service entrants, and insurtech (e.g., In Europe, over $10 billion could be invested this year, doubling that of 2018 and driven by the sector’s leadership in integrated digital banking (e.g., Plaid, Lemonade). Revolut, N26). excluding $1 billion for Tether).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Bank Innovation named Jill one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in banking for 2015, and we doubt that Bank Innovation would know who Jill is if not for her presence on Twitter.

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