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Tech Center: Seattle Brings Heat to The Tech Arena

PYMNTS

Seattle, Washington is known for a great many things including its rainy weather and many pop culture phenomenas. From Grey’s Anatomy to Frasier, Sleepless in Seattle and the band that started the grunge movement in the early 90’s, Nirvana, the city has seen its fair share of recognition and consequentially tourism attraction over the years.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

PYMNTS

The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Innovation Program. Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that.

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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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Amazon And Its Real Estate Effect

PYMNTS

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (May 2) that Amazon told the also-ran cities, via conference call, that a “key issue” was toed to regional transportation — or, more specifically, the lack of a network facilitating that transportation. The financial publication illustrated that the efforts made by individual cities varied.

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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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Feature Friday: Umpqua Showcases the Closest Branch on its Website

Fintech Labs Insights

I’m not a fan of bank branches (except Chase’s NE Seattle outpost, hi Ben). It grew from a small community bank to a west coast regional on the back of its innovative branching strategy (Warning! But if you do have good branches, you should at least use your digital presence to showcase them.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics. The New Name for Community Award.

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