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B2B Financing Firm FreightRover Reportedly Impacted By Celadon Fraud Scam

PYMNTS

The Indianapolis-based firm, which works to accelerate B2B payments to truck operators, apparently has removed its CEO and COO — the result of a financial accounting scandal at another trucking firm where FreightRover executives had worked. The problems reportedly stem not from FreightRover, but from Celadon Group Inc.,

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Stepping Into 21st Century Hospitality With Apartments And Technology

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Some entrepreneurs are inspired to start companies because they spot unmet needs in the market: Frontdesk Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer Jesse DePinto, for instance, saw the amateur nature of home shares but the opportunity for something better than a hotel. The Market.

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Growing a mortgage portfolio: Encourage borrowers to bank local

Abrigo

Indianapolis, Indiana – First Internet Bank of Indiana ($249 million). Leveraging the go local movement to boost a bank’s lending portfolio may be as simple as targeted marketing. • Dallas, Texas – PlainsCapital Bank ($1.89 • Denver, Colorado – Colorado Federal Savings Bank ($558 million).

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Powering-Up Tools: Your Education Resources

Independent Banker

The courses are designed to help community bankers build a strong foundation in eight key areas of bank operations: compliance security, management, information technology, customer service and sales, teller training, human resources and health and safety. 20—23, 2015 in Indianapolis, Ind., Community Banking Live.

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15 Minutes With … Scott Badley

Independent Banker

It allows us to absolutely enjoy and appreciate our small-community environment, but there’s just enough opportunity to do some exploring in those larger markets. Badley: I’m not sure if this is my biggest success of the year, but my favorite experience for 2015 was attending the ICBA Leadership Conference in Indianapolis.

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Frictionless Payments And Top Mobile Banking Innovation

PYMNTS

But, in terms of branches, the bank seeks to grow its physical footprint in new markets such as Denver, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. And in an eCommerce world, something we might talk about, the move to a single pay button and better, faster and more frictionless authentication technologies like 3-D Secure.”.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. So its secured lender, which [founder Scott] Jones didn’t name, recently emptied ChaCha’s bank accounts. The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail.

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