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These factors help explain a decline in Silicon Valley Bank's deposits and its resultant failure. And a St. Louis professor offers measures to avoid the next bank collapse.

In response to an onslaught of unpredictable challenges over the past few years, businesses are looking for innovative ways to improve efficiency. Payment automation is a digital solution an increasing number of companies are adopting. Automating an accounts payable system isn’t a single change though. Instead, it may include analyzing a business’s current systems and processes and implementing various new technologies, such as a cloud-based system for submitting invoices and receipts, software…

The city of St. Louis is again set to examine regulating short-term rentals such as are offered through Airbnb.

Schaefer Autobody Centers, a locally owned group of auto body shops, last week was acquired by Quality Collision Group.

A developer who set out years ago to try to revamp Laclede’s Landing into a residential area has nearly all $55 million of its planned projects either finished or under construction.

A new St. Louis cannabis brand looks to create equal access for all players and promote economic empowerment for communities of color.

Some Major League Baseball teams are extending the time in which they allow alcohol sales at their stadiums in response to new rules that have shortened the length of games.

Missouri Rep. Steve Butz said Wednesday he's mulling a run for St. Louis mayor, and that he'd make a decision on whether to mount a challenge to Tishaura Jones by this fall. Sixty-four-year-old Butz, a Holly Hills resident, said he's in the "earliest of stages" of deciding whether to run, but is "seriously considering it." "I'm not in a position yet to make an announcement or talk about it," he said, declining to answer questions about why he'd run for the office, with an election in 2025. First…

Mission Taco Joint on Wednesday announced plans to open a new location in St. Louis County later this year.

Bill Hellmuth, chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based architecture giant HOK Inc. and the backbone of the firm's presence in Washington, D.C., died April 6 after a long illness, HOK announced. He was 69. Hellmuth had a hand in the design of dozens of buildings in Greater Washington, including Constitution Square, D.C.'s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. "He was a whirlwind of…

For the first time since 2018, the Blues won’t participate in the NHL playoffs this season. Despite a topsy-turvy season on the ice, in a season that included trading star players, the club's front office says its revenue has grown as ticket sales remained solid and the team has capitalized on new revenue opportunities.

Bluebird Network, a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator based in St. Louis County, has hired a chief development officer.

The organization's new name is designed to reflect the work it does in impact investing, including financing affordable housing projects, environmental project or other community development efforts.

St. Louis traffic congestion increased in 2021, but was still below 2019 levels, according to a paper from the region's planning organization.

The Missouri House on Tuesday gave initial approval to bills that would ban certain medical procedures for transgender minors and prohibit transgender athletes from competing in school sports according to their gender identity. The legislation is similar to a pair of Senate bills that chamber approved last month.  A House committee held a public hearing on those Senate bills Tuesday night.  The ban on gender-affirming care brought the most discussion, and two Republicans broke from their party…

Large organizations across the Missouri, including many in St. Louis, told state lawmakers this month that a proposed ban on state dollars being used in diversity, equity and inclusion programs is misguided and would have unforeseen consequences.

The acquisition caps off a nearly yearlong process involving several other bidders to acquire the Texas-based firm, which last year generated $1.7 billion in revenue.

A portfolio company of WILsquare Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm, has expanded with the acquisition of another digital marketing agency.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is not backing down in his fight to oust St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, claiming she's not doing her job. Tuesday, Gardner responded to Bailey's allegations in a legal filing. The filing was submitted on the deadline the judge provided, a week before the case heads to court. Baily says nearly 12,000 criminal cases have been dismissed to what he calls Gardner’s failures. He says more than 9,000 cases were thrown out as they were about to go to…

St. Louis medical technology startup SentiAR Inc., which has developed a holographic guiding system for cardiac procedures, has raised $8.5 million in Series B funding.