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Arvest Bank Appoints Geordie Sanborn, Levi Price to Lead Next Phase of Transformation in Healthcare and Food Value Chain

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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community-focused bank serving retail and commercial customers, today announced that Geordie Sanborn has joined the company as general manager of the bank's new center of excellence focused on serving the healthcare industry. The bank also announced that Levi Price will serve as general manager for the company's new center of excellence focused on serving the food value chain industry customers.

Key Points: 
  • The bank also announced that Levi Price will serve as general manager for the company's new center of excellence focused on serving the food value chain industry customers.
  • As an established, top-20 bank supporting agriculture by dollar volume, Arvest's existing expertise makes it a natural focus area for the bank as it continues to identify opportunities to further support business owners in the Food Value Chain industry.
  • Arvest has a similar strength in serving the healthcare community, from relationship bankers to private banking services.
  • "I'm excited to join the Arvest team to lead this next phase of growth and transformation in the healthcare sector," Sanborn said.

Arvest Bank launches real-time banking capabilities using Thought Machine core technology

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Thursday, February 23, 2023
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community-focused bank with more than $26 billion in assets, today announced the launch of its first product running on cloud-native core banking technology provided by Thought Machine.

Key Points: 
  • Arvest becomes the first bank in the U.S. to offer lending on Thought Machine's real-time, cloud-native core banking platform
    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community-focused bank with more than $26 billion in assets, today announced the launch of its first product running on cloud-native core banking technology provided by Thought Machine .
  • The custom product makes Arvest the first bank in the U.S. to offer lending capabilities on Thought Machine's core banking platform, Vault Core, and is designed to address inefficiencies in the nation's more than $1 trillion equipment financing market.
  • "Through Thought Machine's modern, cloud-native platform, Arvest is able to differentiate its entire banking experience and release financial products faster.
  • We are delighted that Arvest has gone live with its loan product and look forward to the bank expanding its product offering running on our cloud-native core technology," said Paul Taylor, chief executive officer and founder at Thought Machine.

Ninish Ukkan, Bryan Hicks Join Arvest Bank to Drive Technology Transformation

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community bank serving retail and commercial customers, today announced that Ninish Ukkan has joined the company as chief technology officer to lead the development of its next-generation banking platform in the cloud. Ukkan previously served as chief technology officer at Green Dot Corporation, where he led the company's cloud migration and enterprise data platform for the company's industry-leading banking-as-a-service platform. 

Key Points: 
  • FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community bank serving retail and commercial customers, today announced that Ninish Ukkan has joined the company as chief technology officer to lead the development of its next-generation banking platform in the cloud.
  • Also joining the Arvest team is Bryan Hicks, who will serve as head of product over Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and third-party integration.
  • Hicks joins Arvest from Derive Systems, having previously held technology product management at Ford, SAP and AT&T.
  • "We're thrilled to have Ninish and Bryan join the Arvest team as we look to reimagine the banking experience."

Arvest Bank Collaborates with Google Cloud to Transform Community Banking

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Thursday, July 21, 2022
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank, a leading community bank with more than $26 billion in assets, today announced a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to enable and accelerate its multi-year digital transformation strategy. The announcement follows the bank's partnership with technology leader Thought Machine, and comes on the heels of its announcement that growth strategist Laura Merling has joined Arvest to lead transformation, technology, and bank operations.

Key Points: 
  • Partnership will accelerate Arvest Bank's digital transformation strategy with a focus on AI, sustainability, and workforce upskilling
    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank, a leading community bank with more than $26 billion in assets, today announced a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to enable and accelerate its multi-year digital transformation strategy.
  • Arvest will overhaul its current IT architecture and systems, including migrating Arvest's data centers to Google Cloud and undertaking a full-scale digital transformation.
  • The bank will also leverage Google Cloud's artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to enhance customer experience and streamline banking services.
  • "With its storied history of delivering on the promise of helping people find financial solutions for life, Arvest is taking an innovative approach toward reinventing and transforming community banking," said Janet Kennedy, vice president, North America, Google Cloud.

$10K Grant from Arvest Bank and FHLB Dallas Helps National Guard Veteran

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Friday, June 3, 2022
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220603005484/en/

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220603005484/en/
    Angelia Shaw received a $10,000 HAVEN grant from Arvest Bank and FHLB Dallas to repair her North Little Rock, Arkansas, home.
  • While she found her service fulfilling, her training over the years in the National Guard took a heavy toll on her knees.
  • Ms. Shaw was able to make repairs to her home because of a $10,000 Housing Assistance for Veterans (HAVEN) grant from Arvest Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas).
  • Virgil Miller, group CRA director at Arvest Bank, said the grant is an opportunity to give back to Ms. Shaw and other veterans.

Richard Pulliam Joins Arvest Bank as Chief Product and Strategy Officer

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community bank serving retail and emerging businesses, today announced that Richard Pulliam has joined the team as Chief Product and Strategy Officer to advance the company's multi-year growth strategy. Pulliam's focus is to bring new product initiatives to market.

Key Points: 
  • FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arvest Bank (Arvest), a leading community bank serving retail and emerging businesses, today announced that Richard Pulliam has joined the team as Chief Product and Strategy Officer to advance the company's multi-year growth strategy.
  • He's proven to be an innovator inspired by the impact that technology can bring to financial services," said Arvest's Chief Transformation and Operations Officer, Laura Merling.
  • Pulliam has more than two decades of experience in product management, strategy, business development, and international growth and is particularly known for building new digital platform businesses.
  • Pulliam joins Arvest from TriNet where he led the strategic development of new technology products as Vice President of Product Management.

Information Management Brand Arvest Launched at AIIM 2022 Conference

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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DENVER, April 27, 2022  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today's Arvest brand launch empowers organizations to reap the benefits of intelligent information management. It brings together a portfolio of established software solutions that ensure enterprise information gets where it needs to be — quickly, securely, and accurately.

Key Points: 
  • The Arvest brand empowers organizations to reap the benefits of intelligent information management.
  • DENVER, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today's Arvest brand launch empowers organizations to reap the benefits of intelligent information management.
  • They enable the delivery of cloud solutions, easy-to-use low-code toolkits, and comprehensive information management to enterprises across all regions and industries.
  • Speaking at the AIIM 2022 Conference Maxime Cifrian, Arvest CEO, said: "Today's organizations are drowning in a sea of data and documents their enterprise content.

Arvest Bank Joins Billtrust’s Business Payments Network

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments leader, announced today that Arvest Bank, owner and operator of 14 locally managed banks in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas, has joined its Business Payments Network (BPN) as a provider partner, streamlining electronic B2B payments for its corporate clients.

Key Points: 
  • Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments leader, announced today that Arvest Bank, owner and operator of 14 locally managed banks in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas, has joined its Business Payments Network (BPN) as a provider partner, streamlining electronic B2B payments for its corporate clients.
  • Participating Arvest customers are now able to accelerate and simplify the payments process by automating electronic payments to Billtrusts network of suppliers, distributors and vendors while scaling virtual credit card adoption.
  • BPN gives Arvest customers access to additional suppliers while streamlining payments for both suppliers and buyers, enabling them to be sent in suppliers preferred formats, said Keith Zollicoffer, Director of Commercial Credit Card Solutions, Arvest Bank.
  • Arvest Bank joins BPN following Billtrust surpassing $1 billion in supplier invoices delivered to accounts payable (AP) portals in 2021, its largest single-year total and a 58% increase over 2020.

Laura Merling, Arvest Bank Transformation Executive and Former Google Cloud Chief, Joins VenCent Summit Keynote Speaker Lineup

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Venture Center , home of the award-winning FIS Fintech Accelerator and the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, announced today that Laura Merling, an expert in technology innovation and organizational transformation who recently joined Arvest Bank as Chief Transformation and Operations Officer, will join the keynote speaker lineup of the inaugural VenCent Summit.

Key Points: 
  • LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Venture Center , home of the award-winning FIS Fintech Accelerator and the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, announced today that Laura Merling, an expert in technology innovation and organizational transformation who recently joined Arvest Bank as Chief Transformation and Operations Officer, will join the keynote speaker lineup of the inaugural VenCent Summit.
  • Set for April 11-13, registration is open for the event that will offer one-of-a-kind opportunities for innovation and networking between banks and bank industry leaders.
  • Merling's expertise in using technology solutions to disrupt existing business models, improve customer experience and create operational efficiency makes her a must-see at this first-ever VenCent Summit event.
  • At Arvest she will lead the bank's multi-year transformation strategy, which includes adopting a nextgen banking platform, enhancing digital payments and leveraging artificial intelligence to transform bank customer experience and bank operations.

Laura Merling, Former Chief Transformation Officer at Google Cloud, Joins Arvest Bank as Chief Transformation and Operations Officer

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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Merling joins from Google Cloud, where as Chief Transformation Officer and managing director she partnered with customers' C-suites to achieve business outcomes leveraging Google Cloud and the broader Alphabet portfolio.

Key Points: 
  • Merling joins from Google Cloud, where as Chief Transformation Officer and managing director she partnered with customers' C-suites to achieve business outcomes leveraging Google Cloud and the broader Alphabet portfolio.
  • "Laura has built her reputation identifying and forecasting unique market positions.
  • We're fortunate to have her leading transformation, technology, and bank operations as we embark on a significant period of evolution and growth."
  • With more than $26 billion in assets, Arvest Bank is a community-based financial institution serving more than 110 communities in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.