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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — CPA and advisory firm REDW LLC has appointed Kevin Huddleston as its new director of gaming operations.
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WASHINGTON — Not long after Interim CEO Pete Upton (Ponca) welcomed attendees to the Native CDFI Network’s Annual Policy & Capacity Building Summit in Washington DC earlier this month, he announced a last-minute change to the day’s agenda.
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TULSA, Okla — Native-founded and -led fintech startup Totem Technologies Inc. plans to use the proceeds from its $2.2 million pre-seed round to continue developing its technology and building out its staff.
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Newly proposed changes to a U.S. Department of the Treasury fund that has been critical to driving Native economic development and access to capital could have devastating effects in Indian Country.
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MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chief Financial Officer Jean Swift has been appointed to the U.S. Department of the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee (TTAC).
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WASHINGTON — An annual award that recognizes Native financial institutions for providing access to fair, affordable funding in Indian Country has named its three honorees for 2022.
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Private investment in Native businesses and tribal economies largely centers on one resource: data.
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Native CDFI Network has partnered with one of North America’s largest banks to launch an initiative aimed at driving economic growth in Native American communities.
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Having a Native community development financial institution in a Native community correlates to improved credit scores for residents by a hefty 45 points.
That’s according to Libby Starling, director of community development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, who cited research by the Center for Indian Country Development that showed a 45 point average gain in Equifax credit scores in Native communities if there was an average ratio of one Native CDFI staff member to 1,000 residents.
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In his former role leading Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Gun Lake Investments, Kurtis Trevan was a vocal critic of the inequities tribally owned firms face when applying for Minority Business Enterprise certifications at the regional level.
Fast forward a few months after he left the tribally owned private capital investment firm, and the citizen of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians is rolling up his sleeves as part of the executive team at the National Minority Supplier Development Council, where he’s tasked with building out an infrastructure to better connect certified MBEs to available sources of capital.