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A fund for diverse tech companies

Independent Banker

First National Bank and Black Tech Nation Ventures teamed up to support minority-owned startups in the Pittsburgh community and beyond. Driven by her goal to cultivate a supportive community for diverse tech startups, Kelauni Jasmyn founded the fiscally sponsored nonprofit Black Tech Nation in Pittsburgh in 2018. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Mortgage applicants find cozy home at some credit unions

Abrigo

by geographic region , identifying the top 10 credit unions by mortgage loan volume for the Northeast, South, Midwest and South. • Alliant Credit Union, which offers services to the communities around O’Hare International Airport and based in Chicago, captured the top spot for the Midwest.

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Virtual Gaming Grows Into A Force For Tourism And Even Atlantic City

PYMNTS

-based Niantic , the company behind the mobile and augmented reality gaming behemoth Pokémon Go, is touting its growing role in the global tourism industry (which, as PYMNTS readers know , is undergoing its own digitally-fuel period of innovation and disruption). million people from some 60 countries.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

PYMNTS

communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. Expensive Cities.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

PYMNTS

today — one that Jason Furman, the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, detailed in a speech he delivered in Chicago last fall. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models. Taken together, this marks a very different small business scene in the U.S.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation. A decade of online payments innovation. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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