About Abington Bank
Abington Bank is a savings bank in Massachusetts. The company was acquired by Hometown Financial Group in 2019.
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Backbase provides an AI-driven “Banking OS” platform that unifies customer engagement, operations, and internal workflows to help banks deliver seamless digital experiences across all channels.
Bank of Central Florida is a community bank serving central Florida communities, such as Lakeland, Winter Haven, and Plant City.
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Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for farmers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers, and food companies.
Borel Private Bank & Trust Company© was founded in 1980 and maintains offices in San Mateo, Burlingame, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Los Altos, California. The company was sold to Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc in 2001.
Confidence provides an AI-driven process intelligence platform that captures operational knowledge, standardizes workflows, and helps enterprises deploy automation and AI agents more effectively.
DocFox is a business account opening software company for banks and credit unions. The company was acquired by nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO) in March 2024.
Finexio is a payment solutions company that simplifies accounts payable (“AP”) for medium and large businesses by digitizing a manual process dominated by checks and paper-based invoice reconciliation.
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First Western Financial (NASDAQ:MYFW) provides private banking, commercial banking, and planning, trust, and investment management services across five states.
Grasshopper Bank is a client-first digital bank serving small businesses, startups, and the investors supporting them
iQpay provides a flexible digital payment platform that helps business, nonprofits, and government partners run specialized spending programs.
Kasisto is an AI-assistant for banking and finance. The company was acquired by Backbase in June 2026.
Lama AI has created a first-of-its-kind, end-to-end GenAI origination platform. By harnessing generative AI technology, Lama AI empowers financial institutions to streamline the entire loan origination process—from application to closing.
The LexAlign solution automates the onsite audit function for banks’ business customers, helping them identify and remediate gaps in, and train, their business customers while empowering them to help themselves. LexAlign replaces the need for on-site audits and training and has been called the “missing piece” in AML and fraud risk management.
Mercantile Bank Corporation (NASDAQ:MBWM) provides banking services to businesses, individuals, and governmental units in Michigan and Ohio.
Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) provides multi-family mortgage banking, mortgage warehousing, and banking services.
Moveris uses advanced psychophysiology to analyze biological signals from a webcam, detecting deepfakes and verifying real human presence.
Neural Payments is a person-to-person (P2P) payments solution that allows banks and credit unions to offer white label P2P payments to their customers.
Nymbus is a cloud‐based banking platform that offers modular and configurable applications for customer onboarding, digital banking, lending, and core processing.
Ocrolus is an intelligent document processing company that powers the digital lending ecosystem, optimizing credit decisions in small business, mortgage, and consumer lending.
Old Second Bancorp (NASDAQ:OSBC) provides full service banking businesses in the Chicagoland area.
Proof helps businesses verify people, agreements, and transactions – instantly and securely. The platform powers identity verification, notarization, and fraud prevention across industries like real estate, automotive, finance, and HR.
CalPrivate Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Private Bancorp of America, Inc. (OTCMKTS:PBAM) headquartered in La Jolla, California. The bank serves its clients through branch locations in Coronado, San Diego, La Jolla, Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, and South Bay.
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Scamnetic is an AI-driven cyber security platform for real-time scam detection, protecting both enterprises and their consumers.
Southern BancShares, Inc. (OTCMKTS:SBNC) is the holding company for Southern Bank and Trust Company, which operates more than 60 branches in North Carolina and Virginia.
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Synctera is a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that serves the needs of multiple stakeholders in the fintech ecosystem.
Tassat is a payments solutions company that launched TassatPay, the world’s first ever private, permissioned, blockchain-based, real-time, B2B payments solution for banks. TassatPay provides secure, real-time payments 24/7/365 to customers within a bank.
Thrive is creating a seamless, full-spectrum lending platform that enables merchant partners to close deals faster with less friction while helping banks acquire new customers and strengthen relationships.
Tilled is a Payment Facilitator-as-a-Service company that allows independent software vendors to monetize payments processed through their platforms.
Treasury Prime is a modern banking platform that uses its APIs and a network of banks to power deposit accounts and payments for the fintech market.
Triumph Financial (NASDAQ:TFIN), Inc. is a financial and technology company focused on payments, factoring, and banking.
True Link delivers financial protection and money-management solutions for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and other populations requiring financial oversight, enabling safe spending and greater independence.
Unity Bank (NASDAQ:UNTY) provides financial services to retail, corporate, and small business customers via a branch network throughout New Jersey and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Verdata owns a commercial data network that empowers the rapidly growing embedded retail lending sector to assess, mitigate, and monitor for fraud, regulatory exposure, and customer service risk that has emerged as a threat.
