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Sterling Bancorp Names Leaders Of Innovation Finance Group

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Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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Highspot Secures $60M In Funding Round Led By ICONIQ Capital

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ICONIQ Capital led the round, with participation from new investor Sapphire Ventures and all existing investors including Madrona Venture Group, OpenView, Salesforce Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Sales enablement platform Highspot announced it has secured $60 million in Series D funding.

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Polish Investors Hopeful For eCommerce After Allegro IPO

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Executives at MCI Capital , the biggest publicly traded private equity firm in Poland, are optimistic that a recent record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) in the eCommerce space bodes well for the industry, Bloomberg reported. Online retailer Allegro.eu Eyeing the success of that transaction for the owners who took Allegro.eu

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Lowe’s, PetSmart And Others Take On New Leadership

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Despite another quarterly earnings miss announced Wednesday (May 23), Lowe’s shares got a 9 percent bump mid-week after poaching JCPenney CEO Marvin Ellison on Tuesday, a move that garnered support from Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP. Zulily was one of those ventures, bought by QVC in 2015 for $2.9

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Facebook's Libra Hires HSBC Veteran As Managing Director

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The Libra Association has named James Emmett as managing director of Libra Networks, the association’s operating company subsidiary. Emmett previously was the top executive of HSBC Bank plc and Europe, where he was responsible for HSBC's UK Wholesale Bank and operations across Continental Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Bermuda.

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B2B Financing Firm FreightRover Reportedly Impacted By Celadon Fraud Scam

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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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Online Gambling Player Rush Street Wins Support of Blank Check Firm To Go Public

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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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