abip Updates - June 2026 Highlights

June was a great month for the abip team. We kicked off summer the right way with half-day Fridays and an office ice cream cart, a small thank you to our team for a strong first half of the year.

The energy carried right into the community, where abip co-hosted a World Cup Watch Party with Comerica on June 11, bringing together clients, prospects, and referral partners for an afternoon of soccer and great conversation. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to our friends at Comerica for making it a great event.

Mid-month, Courtney Brokaw, Edgar Vargas-Castañeda, and Patrick Eisele represented abip at the Houston Women's Finance Exchange's Fire, Finance & F1 event at The Brittmoore, a luxury networking evening built for Houston's finance community. It was exactly the kind of room we love being in.

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