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Dennis Cail, co-founder and CEO of Zirtue
Dallas Fintechs MoneyGram and Zirtue Partner to Serve Unbanked, Underbanked Borrowers
by Glenn Hunter | Jun 21, 2023
Money-transfer heavyweight MoneyGram and startup Zirtue are teaming up. Uniting the giant's scale with the startup's relationship-lending tech, they aim to give more people around the world a 'hand up' in securing loans.
by Lance Murray |
Apr 28, 2023
MoneyGram's CEO, Alex Holmes, hails the appointment of Seth Ross as the company's new CDO, citing his track record of building and scaling customer-centric digital offerings. With digital transactions accounting for more than half of their money transfer business, Ross's appointment is timely and strategic, he said.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 13, 2023
Plano-based Alkami—a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for banks and credit unions—presented a new concept at its annual Co:lab 2023 conference in Grapevine last week. Drawing a distinction from the FinTech industry, Alkami unveiled its "TechFin" concept: "a technology company that builds financial solutions."
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 23, 2023
With recent financing from FirstBank, the company's innovative solution—a digital lending platform for manufactured home loans—is available in 11 states, including Texas. Zippy plans to more than double its footprint in 2023 by establishing partnerships with hundreds of communities.
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Leading tech companies with a stake in North Texas are helping to shape the future with emerging technologies predicted to transform the world in 2023 and beyond. Clockwise from left: Flytrex and Brinker, Toyota and Google Cloud, Waymo, Texas Instruments, Bell, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. [Courtesy photos]
Emerging Trends: Three Futurists Predict The Tech That Comes Next
by Sandra Engelland | Feb 15, 2023
From AI to human longevity to xTech, North Texas experts George Brody of InfoNet of Things and Anurag Jain of Perot Jain, along with Mike Bechtel of Deloitte, predict a range of emerging technologies set to transform the world in 2023 and beyond.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 31, 2023
The Irving-based maker of ATM technology based its new "Innovue" branding on the words "Innovation + VIsion"—expressing Hyosung's goal of creating exciting new solutions, services, and experiences.
"Nowhere in our new frame of reference will you find the words ATM, cash, retail, or banking," CMO Brad Nolan told Dallas Innovates. "We have opened the aperture and unshackled our employees to think big."
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 6, 2022
Fort Worth-based Ag Resource Management, one of the nation’s top providers of agricultural lending and crop insurance, announced that Rip Mason has been appointed chief executive officer, effective immediately....
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 4, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Allied Electronics & Automation, Cooksey Communications, Stream Data Centers, NexBank, McKissack & McKissack, Zirtue, and more.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas incoming President and CEO Lorie K. Logan. [Photo: Dallas Fed]
The Last Word: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Lorie K. Logan on ‘the Importance of Innovation’
by David Seeley | Oct 5, 2022
Last May, Logan was named the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In a virtual town hall, she answered questions about her background and her priorities for the district she oversees—which consists of Texas, northern Louisiana, and southern New Mexico.
A post by the Dallas Fed captured some of Logan's comments, including her work for the Federal Reserve during 9/11 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Sep 15, 2022
Confer, whose app platform lets mortgage shoppers compare multiple mortgage offers, has found a new home in the Serendipity Labs coworking space in McKinney's Craig Ranch. It aims to open its platform to brokers, banks, and lenders in order to help them provide a plug-and-play model to give more options to borrowers. It's now looking to raise a $4 million seed funding round.
“The end goal is to guide buyers in making a conscious and intelligent decision,” says Yatin Karnik, Confer's founder and CEO.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 20, 2022
Gig Wage has found new ways to help business owners manage cash flow and payment speed. But even more so, it aims to help create "a social safety net for 1099 workers" by offering non-predatory Faster Pay solutions and other features, with a debit card and mobile app offering also in the works.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 14, 2022
According to Dallas-based CBRE’s most recent annual Scoring Tech Talent report, Dallas-Fort Worth now stands in the No. 9 spot, jumping up four places from last year’s report—one of the biggest gains seen by any metro area. The region also ranks No. 5 for women in the tech workforce.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
Over the past five years, DFW’s talent pool has grown by nearly 15%, with close to 188,000 residents employed in the industry.
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Dallas Startup Eyes $2M Seed Raise for Automated Stock Trading Marketplace
by Kevin Cummings | Jun 22, 2022
AlgoPear, a subscription-based algorithmic stock trading platform, has onboarded more than 4,000 users and grown its monthly recurring revenue with a team of 15, according to co-founder and CEO Ronnie Green.
Green says the startup is seeing the "hypergrowth that any founder or any investor would love to see right now."
Green says the startup is seeing the "hypergrowth that any founder or any investor would love to see right now."
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by David Seeley |
Apr 20, 2022
“Millennials and Gen Z are reinventing investing," says Zogo founder Bolun Li. The company's next-gen financial education takes a Gen Z approach to covering financial literacy—gamification.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 4, 2022
“Our mission is economic empowerment, period.” says Craig Lewis, Gig Wage founder and CEO. The Dallas 1099 payroll solutions company collaborated with Green Dot and nonprofit Commonwealth on a study of what types of 'financial interventions' help provide financial security to a fast-growing non-traditional workforce in the gig economy. Empowerment starts with understanding, Lewis says. "We want to get involved to start to set the tone on what that understanding should be, so that we can replicate it at scale.”
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 30, 2022
Clear Street, a fintech that says it’s building a better infrastructure for capital markets with a cloud-based trading platform, has expanded operations into Dallas with three new director-level hires.
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