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JANUARY 24, 2020

WEX is purchasing the Australian eNett from Travelport and its owners, partnered with Siris Capital Group and Elliot Management Corporation’s private equity affiliate, Evergreen Coast Capital Corp. The move positions WEX to establish a leadership position in the growing global travel market.

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MAY 8, 2019

It hasn’t exactly been the best of times lately for FreightRover , at least not when it comes to legal drama and company leadership. PYMNTS readers might recall that late last year, FreightRover secured $500 million in financing to fuel its factoring operations, with the capital coming from Crayhill Capital Management.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Promote the advancement of women into leadership roles. The firm developed a Curated Coaching for Entrepreneurs offering that provides free small-group coaching to female entrepreneurs as part of its Women on the Move initiative. Goldman Sachs has a similar initiative called 10,000 Women.

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Helen joins from Natwest Group, where she was a member of the executive team and held the position of Chief Human Resources Officer. Based at Finastra’s HQ in Paddington, Helen is a key member of the Finastra Executive Leadership Team, reporting to CEO, Simon Paris. She also serves as a mentor for the FTSE 100 Mentoring Foundation.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Levey added that he is confident that Emmett’s “leadership will help make Libra's vision a reality.". “I The group, based in Geneva, Switzerland, was founded by Facebook to launch the social media company’s entry into digital currency. Libra Association, launched in June 2019, describes itself as an “independent member organization.”

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 10, 2023

As bank executives navigate rising rates, margin compression and recession risk in 2023, a striking reality has seeped into leadership meetings: the hybrid workplace is here to stay, and there’s a ton of strategic ramifications to this new aspect of the business. Pretty soon the shareholders will begin forcing this blunt question.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I think he’s very excited that the business is transitioning from high growth to a more disciplined business with accountability and with a more mature leadership,” Claure said. Sandeep Mathrani , who used to be Brookfield Properties’ retail group CEO, will step in as new CEO on Feb.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Payroll and human capital management company Paychex is growing through the acquisition of industry peer Lessor Group. The companies said Thursday (March 1) that small business (SMB)-targeting Paychex will acquire the payroll software company, which is based in Denmark.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent regulatory crackdowns on Ant Group, Alibaba and Tencent show that China’s former tech darlings have run afoul with all-powerful political and regulatory regime in China. Reuters quoted Ant as saying in a statement that it would establish a “rectification” working group and fully implement the government’s requirements. “In

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Rush Street Interactive (RSI) said on Monday (July 27) that it will go public via a merger with dMY Technology Group , one of a new wave of special acquisition companies, or SPACs, backed by deep-pocketed investors, which hunt for tech unicorns or other promising startups to take public.

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JULY 22, 2019

has announced the launch of a venture banking and lending business to provide debt capital financing and commercial banking solutions to growth companies and their investors. Stifel offers senior secured loans up to $40 million for working capital and growth capital needs. Stifel Financial Corp.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Describe a typical day in the life. Perficient, though not new to insurance, is consistently realigning to capitalize on the industry’s digital transformation potential. In my role as our Insurance Principal within our Financial Services business unit, I spearhead our strategy and delivery efforts in insurance.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

I think he’s very excited that the business is transitioning from high growth to a more disciplined business with accountability and with a more mature leadership,” Claure said. Sandeep Mathrani , who used to be Brookfield Properties’ retail group CEO, will step in as new CEO on Feb.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

approached him about a leadership position in 2013. Williams reconsidered and became CEO of Southern Bancorp, a group of three community development financial institutions (CDFI): Southern Bancorp Inc., Over the longer term, Southern Bancorp’s leadership plans to score its loan portfolio for carbon emissions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Event startup Fever announced it has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Rakuten Capital. investments for Alibaba Group Michael Zeisser, also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total raised to over $70 million, according to Venture Beat. Atresmedia, Accel, and former chairman of U.S.

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APRIL 6, 2020

“Today, the company continues to operate in compliance with an asset cap imposed by its regulator due to actions of past leadership. While we are actively working to create balance sheet capacity to lend, we are limited in our ongoing ability to use our strong capital and liquidity position to extend additional credit.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

In a company blog post , Coinbase said Asiff joins the company from Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm where he was focused on growing a number of the VC’s portfolio companies. He has also held senior leadership and governance roles at TPG Capital, Saxo Bank, Hewlett Packard and Bain Capital.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. ZP Group incorporates three units: a government cybersecurity contractor, a human capital and staffing service and a security advisory firm.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

The proposed takeover could create a powerful online food delivery group across Europe. It’s also is a triumph for hedge fund investor Cat Rock Capital , who is invested in both companies and has asked for a deal, the Financial Times reported. There is “no certainty” that any transaction will happen. Takeaway.com has until Aug.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The ongoing fallout from an accounting error at Metro Bank will now see Founder Vernon Hill completely exit the group after previously announcing he would remain on the board. “It is thanks to his vision and leadership that we have grown to 70 stores around the country, serving over 1.8 Reports in The Guardian on Wednesday (Oct.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

POS platform company Appetize recently announced that it had closed a $20 million investment round led by Shamrock Capital Advisors and Oak View Group, among others. Appetize, a Playa Vista, California-based POS company, delivers modern ordering and payments technology for enterprise businesses.

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APRIL 12, 2022

Salmon Software’s existing management team, including John Byrne, will remain in their current leadership roles and continue as significant shareholders in the business. The Melior team members invested this fund for The Carlyle Group from 2014 to 2019 and are one of the most experienced private equity investment teams in the Irish market.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

“Google is one of those critical, important leaders in multiple areas,” Michael Lippert, manager of Baron Capital Opportunity Fund, told the Wall Street Journal. Pivotal Research Group Senior Analyst Michael Levine upgraded the stock to a buy rating. You almost can’t live your life without Googling things.”.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

“Google is one of those critical, important leaders in multiple areas,” Michael Lippert, manager of Baron Capital Opportunity Fund, told the Wall Street Journal. Pivotal Research Group Senior Analyst Michael Levine upgraded the stock to a buy rating. You almost can’t live your life without Googling things.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Gojek Group President Andre Soelistyo and Gojek Co-Founder Kevin Aluwi will assume the top leadership as co-CEOs, a Gojek spokesperson told the news outlet. “We It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital. Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

One thought that came to the surface was that I wanted to thank all credit unions for their leadership through serving their communities. The 10 characteristics of effective, caring leaders, through the lens of servant leadership have been described as: Listening. Persuasion. Conceptualization. Stewardship.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Martina maintained the highest standard of leadership, strategic thinking, and financial stewardship in her years as CFO ,” said Banga in the press release. He has a keen understanding of the opportunities ahead of us and how best to capitalize on them.”.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a stunning example of bank leadership not understanding interest rate risk, running into trouble with an inverted yield curve, and ignoring the impact of a severe monetary correction on long-duration assets. Notably, most community banks’ duration risk is in the loan portfolio.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Although the 2022 Top 5 are holding their own and two of them remain in today's Top 5, the 2021 edition included one bank that failed (SVB Financial Group) and one that is voluntarily liquidating (Silvergate). Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. What a difference a year makes! The Bancorp, Inc.

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JUNE 18, 2019

The capital is going to be utilized by continuing the work of TokenOS , which is one of the leading open banking platforms in the world. Other customers include Khaleeji Commercial Bank, An Post, Think Money Group, Tandem Bank and numerous others. “As

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MARCH 5, 2018

A slew of existing backers, including Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Stanford, also participated in the funding. The company said it plans to use the investment to focus on product innovation and program management.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A recent round of bank merger announcements and the marquee Capital One/Discover deal illustrate this mantra’s popularity. As a trusted executive team, talk through what type of “ROL” or return on leadership the priciest folks in the organization are working. So, let’s do a quick thought experiment, Gonzobankers.

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JULY 13, 2018

The group aims to help position the city of Monterrey as the tech hub of Mexico, while bringing together companies, entrepreneurs, academic institutions and digital talent. It plans to use 30 percent of the funds toward digital investments, 60 percent for working capital and 10 percent for human capital.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Operating as an incubator, the Singapore eXellerator lab will aim to strengthen the bank’s financial services innovation efforts within China , with the bank pointing to the market’s leadership in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, mobile payments and biometrics.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

10) that it has acquired the assets of payment gateway and merchant account provider The iTransact Group. We are pleased to welcome iTransact employees, leadership team, referral partners and merchants to the Payroc family,” Nicholas Oberman, president of Payroc, added in the same press release. billion in annual processing volume.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

But equally important is what they should be doing to keep the talented employees that they already have, both to avoid a short-term staffing crisis and to keep the pipeline of leadership full. Nurture leadership by providing a mix of technical and power skills training. Quick Stat. Source: ICBA Community Banker University.

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JULY 18, 2018

dollars on its balance sheet after it raised $4 billion in new capital late last year. Building on its leadership and expertise in the global online travel market, Booking is championing a digital revolution of travel experience. Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings.

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