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Can AI Kill The FICO Score?

PYMNTS

Adjaoute said AI is a next-generation technique for assessing the risk posed by a consumer or merchant, as it can combine all data from across sources to get a total picture of someone’s creditworthiness in real time — which, of course, is what applicants have come to expect. It’s easy to lend money,” Adjaoute concluded.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. Central Region Award Recipient. When Gowen first arrived at Merchants & Planters in 1983 to serve as its president and senior lending officer, the bank had two branches and $47 million in assets. Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank. Jim Gowen Sr.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Leadership and board members. Business lending and corporate cards. Square has since expanded its offerings to standalone, integrated point-of-sale terminals, as well as a broader ecosystem of applications and services such as lending (Square Capital), payroll services (Square Payroll), and rewards (Square Loyalty).

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Temenos to Acquire Kony: So What?

Gonzobanker

Temenos leadership – first Akcelerant founder Jay Mossman and then Akcelerant/FIS/Sanchez veteran Emily Steele – wins points with the Cornerstone team for straight talk and course-correcting to avoid the common international player sin of over-commitment and under-delivery. This third U.S. launch effort appears to be on a solid pace.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

And Partners CEO John Janclaes helped put Kony on the market map in mid-size shops, even keynoting Kony’s conference with a leadership book in tow. Regional bank CIOs will be watching closely to see if Fiserv can pull off its most complex conversion in years and finally challenge FIS IBS in the regional space.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

CB Insights

Under California state law, insurance brokers must complete a mandatory 52-hour pre-certification course to legally sell insurance in the state. In January 2018, Outcome settled all pending lawsuits by the company’s investors on the condition that Shah and Agarwal step down from their leadership positions. Total Funding: $263M.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models

Gonzobanker

At the same time, most bank executives agreed that a 20%-25% increase in earnings from the tax break is being earmarked for investments in their franchises: market expansion, raises for employees and, of course, technology investments.

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