Banks aren’t getting enough coins to meet business demand
If you've got any coins sitting around, banks could use them because businesses are running short.
View ArticleBank Midwest will shutter three branches in the KC area
Bank Midwest will close three branches in the Kansas City area, as part of a nationwide plan to close 12 branches and save about $3.5 million a year in expenses.
View ArticleBrush Creek Partners, LaunchKC name cohort for new InsurTech Accelerator
Although it got delayed by the pandemic, LaunchKC and Kansas City-based insurance agency Brush Creek Partners plan to start the new InsurTech accelerator program on Aug. 11 — in a virtual format. The...
View ArticleSprint Center will be rebranded as T-Mobile Center
T-Mobile US Inc. announced Thursday that it will rebrand Kansas City’s premier downtown arena from Sprint Center to T-Mobile Center. The name change comes on the heels of T-Mobile (Nasdaq: TMUS)...
View ArticleTiny fraction of KC-area banks are offering Main Street Lending Program...
Few Kansas City-area banks plan to participate in the Federal Reserve Bank's Main Street Lending Program. Find out why as well as which banks are certified as an approved lender in Kansas or Missouri.
View ArticleOffice of the Future: Communicate — and then do it some more
The success of companies as workers return to the office will hinge on the ability to communicate, which will drive recruiting and retaining talent.
View ArticleOffice of the Future: Policy tips to dodge Covid-19 land mines
Testing, sanitation, monitoring, rearranging the workspace — it all creates headaches and potential traps for the unwary as businesses repopulate their offices. Two Kansas City-area experts offer a few...
View ArticleAs legal immigration craters, KC employers may move staff out of U.S.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services faces a budget shortage and plans to shut down within 30 days. That has employers scrambling to figure out how to keep legal immigrants performing key jobs.
View ArticleWaddell & Reed adds $701M in assets with new affiliated advisers in past month
Overland Park-based Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. had nine independent financial advisers join its broker-dealer platform in the past month, bringing $701 million in assets with them. The new...
View ArticleMissouri cannabis group's new KC board members defy industry stereotypes
The Missouri Medical Cannabis Trade Association (MoCann) added four people from the Kansas City area to its board, each with stereotype-breaking résumés. The new directors from the metro area include a...
View ArticleCreative Planning adds $600M more in assets with acquisition
Learn how Creative Planning's ninth acquisition in 18 months is different from the rest.
View ArticleKansas Speedway president: No fans, but at least racing's back
Kansas Speedway President Pat Warren said that having a race without fans is disappointing — but it's better than no racing at all.
View ArticleWhat FICO's change in credit scoring means for individuals and businesses
FICO will release a new model for determining credit scores that a Kansas City banker is calling a game-changer.
View ArticlePolsinelli adds more firepower to its national ESOP practice
Polsinelli's overall mission is to become the region’s preeminent corporate law practice for middle-market companies, and the recent addition of two prominent and highly experienced ESOP attorneys is...
View ArticleHusch exec: New virtual office can attract the best lawyers wherever they are
Husch Blackwell's new virtual office, called The Link, is not a pilot program. It's a serious effort to establish a permanent, more flexible solution to attract and retain the best talent.
View Article2020 KC Air Show is postponed but will fill the skies next year
The KC Air Show delivered good news and bad news. First, the bad news: The recent resurgence of Covid-19 in the area caused the event — headlined by the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds — scheduled for...
View ArticleJoel Tucker pleads guilty to charges from fake-debt scheme
Joel Tucker reached an agreement with federal prosecutors and entered a guilty plea related to a fake-debt scheme and a bankruptcy fraud scheme. Tucker was indicted in 2018 on 12 counts of interstate...
View Article2020 Capstone Awards: Adaptive Reuse — J. Rieger & Co.
Players: J. Rieger & Co., developer; Lathrop Gage LLP, Polsinelli PC, Husch Blackwell LLP, Benton Lloyd & Chung LLP, legal services; GastingerWalker&, architect; Lankford Fendler +...
View ArticleKC law firm targets K-State with class action seeking tuition reimbursement
Joseph Hollander Craft LLC in Kansas City filed suit against Kansas State University seeking class-action status and reimbursement of tuition for students who couldn’t use the campus because of the...
View ArticleNew Missouri law will mean big changes in consumer protection lawsuits
Missouri just made key changes to its primary consumer protection law that make lawsuits easier to challenge at the outset and sets a higher bar to earn punitive damages.
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