Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Earlier this year, the community bank was an anchor investor of patient capital in community housing access through the Austin Housing Conservancy Fund (AHC), a private equity fund owned and managed by the nonprofit Affordable Central Texas. Affordable housing shouldn’t be siloed out.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Bank to launch a mobile fueling program in an effort to help fleet managers save on refueling costs. Bank noted that fleet managers are often facing extra costs in driver labor when they pay to have their drivers to drive off-route to refuel at a retail fuel gas station.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In Amazon’s case, the value of logistics is about $1 trillion, which is the valuation the company reached again this week, after the firm’s results and investments managed to impress investors. Big News of the Week: The Central Operations Restructuring. New Chief Operating Officer Dacona Smith will oversee store operations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

values the restaurant management platform company at $1.4 The way restaurants serve their customers is going through a fundamental change, and the technology that enables restaurant operations must respond to these new demands. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund Portfolio Manager Henry Ellenbogen said in the press release. “Our

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski. Deepening roots.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Cyber threat intelligence will be geared toward larger firms and the managed services toward smaller firms. The company will operate across offices in New York, the Washington, D.C., In a release, BlueteamGlobal said that it was formed through the merger of three separate cybersecurity businesses, BitVoyant, K2G and K2 Cyber Defense.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Investors in the venture include TTV Capital, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Collaborative Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Table Management, Album VC and more. . In other crypto news , cryptocurrency tax automation software TaxBit has raised $5 million in funding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

In Austin-based Square Root’s latest study with Forrester Consulting, Close The Gap Between High- and Low-Performing Stores: Management and Measurement of Brick-and-Mortar Retail Locations , retail store performance issues that affect customer experience and loyalty were identified.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

Those services launched into virgin territory in terms of regulation — businesses of this kind had never quite existed before — and so the rules and regs in place did not quite manage to directly address them. The Big Austin Loss . Well, OK, Austin didn’t actually kick out Uber or Lyft. So what are they negotiating?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Through intelligent automation, our platform provides operational efficiency, improved customer experience, and faster payments, representing a $21 billion opportunity for lenders and borrowers.”. The funding will also go to support its effort to expand its software engineering and sales teams located in Austin, Texas. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

Founded in 2012, the Phoenix-based company sells cars through its website and operates automated towers that store cars in U.S. cities, such as Austin and Dallas in Texas and Nashville, Tennessee. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. and JMP Securities, LLC are acting as co-managers. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

“eCommerce platforms and marketplaces are leveling the retail playing field by connecting buyers who have specific needs with groups of sellers that can meet them,” said Bill Ready, chief operating officer at PayPal. Hyperwallet has offices in Austin, London, San Francisco, Sydney and Vancouver.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Then, when the phone rings, the automated CallJoy agent answers, greets callers with a custom message and provides basic business information (like hours of operation),” wrote Bob Summers, general manager of CallJoy at Google, in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

But David Grant, the Accelerator’s program manager, said that about 99 percent of the program has nothing to do with Facebook. The Lenfest Institute’s mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for local journalism,” said the institute’s Director of Operations Ken Herts. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The operative word is control. “I The internet “and its many apps, online reviews, and socially viral communication speeds will continue to disrupt restaurant industry traffic, revenues, brands, and survivability even more over the next decade,” Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting, told Modern Restaurant Management.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Based in Austin, Consero provides businesses with a Finance as a Service suite of solutions: outsourced CFO and bookkeeping services, combined with its financial management platform SIMPL. The company secured $50 million in private equity funding from BV Investment Partners, Built In Austin said this week. Consero Global.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amazon is partnering with Galvanize — a 21st-century school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists — to offer Alexa Skills development workshops that will teach small developers and startups how to build skills for Amazon Alexa, the operating system for smart speaker Echo.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

What’s more, instead of reporting to Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer business Jeff Wilke, Mackey and the two Amazon executives are overseen by Steve Kessel, who is in charge of all the physical store operations. Ever since Amazon acquired Whole Foods, the combined company has been busy integrating the businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

The new London office is led by Aran Brown, who has more than a decade of experience in strategy business development and will steer as the company’s European managing director. The Hyperwallet proprietary payout platform helps organizations maintain a frictionless and transparent way to manage both the payments and payee’s experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

Drako had founded several companies, including Barracuda Networks, and was frustrated with the lack of real-time information about his manufacturing operations. Cece and Drako met while running companies in Silicon Valley and later reconnected in Austin, Texas, to author a solution that could kill both birds with one stone.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

million in total funding across nine rounds, with startups ranging from corporate travel and expense (T&E) management and small- and mid-sized business (SMB) accounting to artificial intelligence and beyond. Travel and Expense Management. Workforce Management. The delivery platform based in Austin announced $8.25

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. The company already had operated an innovation facility in Japan. Located in Dallas, the 7-Eleven lab store is designed so that customers can test and purchase the newest innovations from the retailer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The venture capital will be used to invest in its core services for payroll and HR tools, which are geared towards mid-market businesses and designed to maintain regulatory compliance and ease friction in employee data management.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. Online banking platforms are often basic, many have no mobile apps, and business platforms like treasury management are severely outdated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Chinese bike sharing company Mobike , which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China. That deal came after Lyft rival Uber bought bike-sharing operator JUMP.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. Supply Chain Management. Software-As-A-Service (SaaS). Honorable Mention.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

“Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon. The commitment to education, growth of the local high-tech industry, and caliber of technical talent in Minneapolis make it an ideal place for our expansion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

They were to be available in some Chicago, Nashville, Austin and New York stores beginning on Oct. In other news, Outback Steakhouse is testing machine learning (ML) technology from Presto at multiple restaurants operated by one of its franchisees. 14, according to the report, and in California at the start of November.

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MARCH 11, 2020

For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The facility, which has been in operation since March, serves more than 100 Walmart locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. The company said in the announcement that harnessing a platform for digital management “enables supply chain managers to mobilize and visualize performance management in a more intuitive, convenient manner.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Uber had many wonderful years of asking for forgiveness instead of permission and managed to build a worldwide ridesharing empire on the strength of that conviction. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale. On some level, Circle’s move seems strange.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The company, headquartered in Austin, Tex., We’re a complete solution — from taking credit card payments as you exit the garage to mobile payments for valets to managing all of the revenue control and systems for parking operators,” he said. Over 800 locations use Klever Logic’s technology in the U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2018

and India drove a surge in FinTech venture capital funding in 2017, and Accenture Financial Services Senior Managing Director Julian Skan pointed to the B2B business model as a significant presence in this trend. The company operates a working capital and trade finance solution for companies to secure financing to power global trade.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Missing the opportunity to gauge demand accurately can result in lost sales, and ramping up production or staffing while waiting for foot traffic or clicks on buy buttons that never materialize can ding operating profits. Demand forecasting is as much an art as a science, but it could use a bit more science.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Today, uShip operates in 19 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Austin Texas and Amsterdam. The platform enables some 30,000 Schenker transport providers to optimize management of 5,000 loads per day. The company reportedly saw 40 percent growth year on year, along with maturation across uShip’s main delivery segments.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

The Bank also offers wealth management and trust services. We serve the dental and other health professional industries through a centralized loan and deposit platform that operates out of our main office in Dallas, Texas and serves clients in 30 states. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.

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