Podium Appoints Loren Padelford as Chief Operating Officer

Podium Creates New Role to Oversee Go-to-Market Strategy and Operations Across Global Business Podium, a communication and payments platform for local businesses, announced today that it has hired Loren Padelford in a newly created role as chief operating officer to oversee all aspects of the go-to-market strategy and operations across Podium’s business. In this role, Loren will be responsible for building out and scaling the marketing, sales, business development, customer success and international efforts for Podium. “Local...

Guaranteed Rate Insurance Appoints Jeff Wingate as EVP

Guaranteed Rate Insurance, an independent brokerage that offers personal, commercial, life and specialty insurance, announces it has hired Jeff Wingate as its new Executive Vice President to drive growth and diversify its product offerings. As EVP and Head of Guaranteed Rate Insurance, Wingate, an industry veteran with more than 30 years of relevant experience, will lead the team of more than 200 insurance professionals and focus on organic growth, and mergers and acquisitions. Wingate’s goal will be...

InvoiceCloud’s Electronic Payments Apps Available in Guidewire

InvoiceCloud’s integrations for PolicyCenter and BillingCenter to streamline the payment and collections process for insurers, while engaging policyholders InvoiceCloud, an EngageSmart solution for online bill payment services and Guidewire PartnerConnect Solution partner, and Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE) today announced that InvoiceCloud’s new Ready for Guidewire validated accelerators for PolicyCenter and BillingCenter are now available to users in the Guidewire Marketplace. The InvoiceCloud platform is a comprehensive, secure, and flexible electronic bill presentment and payment solution that can be customized to meet the needs of any...

AllianceBernstein Announces Appointment of Todd Walthall to its BOD

AllianceBernstein L.P. (“AB”) and AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (“AB Holding”) (NYSE: AB) today announced that Todd Walthall has joined the board of directors at AllianceBernstein as an independent member. His appointment is effective as of September 21, 2021 and he will sit on the Audit and Risk Committee. “Todd brings to the board a deep expertise in the customer experience space having devoted a large portion of his career to understand how to best meet the needs of customers. I am...

Kasasa® Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Partner Status

The financial technology partner joins an elite group of banking companies to receive the esteemed accreditation Kasasa®, the only financial technology partner committed to helping community banks and credit unions take back banking by equipping them with world-class financial products, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency Partner status. Kasasa is the fifth banking company in North America and the ninth banking company globally to receive the noteworthy designation. The AWS Financial Services Competency Partners certification is a company-level accreditation that aims to...

SpotOn Raises $300 Million in Series E Funding

SpotOn also announces the acquisition of Appetize, extending its coverage to include small, midsize, and enterprise retail, restaurant, sports, entertainment and hospitality businesses in the United States Appetize will go to market as SpotOn and will be sharply focused on serving and growing its enterprise client base, such as Live Nation, LSU, Dodger Stadium, and Urban Air With the acquisition, SpotOn will bring enterprise-scale software capabilities to small business clients, and customer engagement technology such...

Maison Reserve & Co. launches World’s first cryptocurrency tethered

Maison Reserve & Co. a Dallas-based company launches the world’s first cryptocurrency tethered to the supply and demand of real products, backed by R&D, manufacturing, distribution, sales, and loyalty rewards, on a transparent and fool-proof ledger — Blockchain. With transaction costs decreasing, and a deflationary path for ETH in sight partly due to the London hard fork, Maison Reserve & Co. selected Ethereum as the blockchain foundation for building the core of the platform. “By using smart contracts,...

NOW Insurance Named Matt Higgins as EVP

Higgins will play an instrumental role in the continued development of the A.I. platform, machine learning algorithms designed to enhance the customer experience NOW Insurance (NOW), an AI-enabled insurance platform designed to quickly match small business owners and professionals with affordable coverage plans, announced today the hiring of Matt Higgins as executive vice president of engineering. Higgins, who began his role in June, brings a wide breadth of technology and leadership expertise to NOW Insurance’s leadership...

Cryptocurrency Exchange Paybis Rolls Out Instant Bank Payments

Paybis introduces instant bank payments solution for UK and EU; adds support for local bank payments in the US and SWIFT USD for international clients. Global cryptocurrency exchange Paybis is introducing several new payment options for its international customers. Paybis users will now be able to purchase cryptocurrencies using the United Kingdom’s (UK) Faster Payments system and the European Union’s (EU) Single European Payment Area (SEPA) for instant GBP and EUR deposits respectively. The exchange has also launched local...

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