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Burger King’s Impossible Burger Test Brings In Traffic

PYMNTS

Following the pilot-test rollout of a Whopper made with the vegetarian-friendly Impossible Burger, locations in Burger King ’s St. Louis test market reportedly exceeded the restaurant’s foot traffic national average by 18.5 percent in April. We believe in self-reliance,” Lee said.

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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.

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Popular Bank’s Consumer Checking Account Receives Bank On Certification

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The Popular Easy Access Checking account was officially certified by the national nonprofit Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund) as meeting the Bank On National Account Standards (2021 – 2022). Data collected by the CFE Fund in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Is commercial lending on the rise?

Independent Banker

What’s driving that for us is the growth of some of our specialty lending businesses,” says Dave Seiler, chief operating officer of First Business Financial Services, Inc., She recently taught a virtual class offered by the National Association of Government Guarantee Lenders on the topic of SBA application packages. Source: St.

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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 served as a corporate vice president of cloud infrastructure and operations at Microsoft; he also worked at Amazon for 15 years in various senior positions. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News .

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Vending Machine Commerce Encourages Digital Payments Growth

PYMNTS

The Chicago-based startup sells salads and other meals via vending machines , and plans to double its operations in 2019 after raising $30 million in a Series C funding round. The capital will support hiring and the deployment of up to 500 new machines to St. Louis, Cincinnati and other areas.

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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.