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How Relationship Lending & A Transaction-Oriented Focus Can Win More Business Loans

Abrigo

Banking during COVID —especially origination and forgiveness related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — gave many financial institutions two years of proof that automating existing lending processes and operations provides better customer/member experiences. Siems, Jonathan A.

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Retail Pulse: Microsoft To Open London Flagship; Walmart Hires Tech Exec

PYMNTS

Burger King locations in a St. Louis test market reportedly saw foot traffic that exceeded the national average by 18.5 Kumar worked at Google as a VP and as general manager of video, display and analytics. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News .

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Is commercial lending on the rise?

Independent Banker

Ashley Horner (right), senior vice president and SBA loan administrator, shown with portfolio manager Melanie Elmore, says Summit Bank is on track to make $30 million in SBA loans this year. She recently taught a virtual class offered by the National Association of Government Guarantee Lenders on the topic of SBA application packages.

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Fed’s Sapenaro On How To Forge Ahead With Payments Innovation

PYMNTS

This month the Federal Reserve named Dave Sapenaro , its current first vice president and chief operating officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as its new payments strategy director. But it can’t do this alone, instead turning to FIs and FinTechs to work together and forge a path forward. That’s what we need.

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Field of Dreams

Independent Banker

Major league baseball manager Tony La Russa talks about building a winning team. Tony La Russa was a professional baseball manager for 33 years, serving the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He was unanimously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.