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From Caracas to Miami: One branch manager's banking journey

American Banker

Now 20 years into her banking career, she serves as a branch manager for Amerant Bank in Florida and is described by her boss as "always looking for additional opportunities to give back to the community." Born in Venezuela, Lolita Perozo initially came to the U.S. to further her education and improve her English.

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Retail Pulse: Rebag Opens Miami Store; Amazon Brings Second Amazon Go To NYC

PYMNTS

We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. Miami has a global reach with customers visiting from all over the world. It noted the executive’s previous experience includes serving as general manager at Tesla North America and managing director at CH Carolina Herrera.

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Spotlight on lending: Commercial loan growth geographically

Abrigo

bank and credit union, named the “ Top 15 community banks by commercial loan growth.” The list identified a significant uptick in commercial and industrial lending in the South, as 7 of the 15 community banks included are located in the region. From that subset of all U.S. Blog Bank'

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Visa’s Authorize.Net To Provide SMBs With Offer On Super Bowl Sunday

PYMNTS

Authorize.net , Visa’s SMB digital payment management system, is eliminating its monthly gateway fee for the life of an account in addition to its transaction fees for the first 100,000 transactions of new North American clients enrolling on Feb. Those efforts include helping the Tampa SMB community get ready for the big game.

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A digital-first bank for south Florida

Independent Banker

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Name: Locality Bank. Assets: $55 million. Built on a solid foundation.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

PYMNTS

The analyst community balked at longer-term questions about the company’s liquidity even though 2019 was the company’s sixth straight year of triple-digit revenue growth with over 177,000 cars delivered and just shy of $4 billion in revenue. The Miami vending machine has a new design and is definitely an attention-getter in new markets.

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NCR’s D3 Combines With Nymbus To Enable Banks’ Digital Offerings

PYMNTS

Miami-based NYMBUS announced the licensing of NCR’s D3 Digital Banking platform (D3) to give financial institutions the opportunity to quickly offer customers new brands, the FinTech announced in a press release on Monday (Oct.

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