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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

PYMNTS

Said Allaire of the bid to get digital currencies more front and center: “Regulators are getting their arms around them … the digital asset market is now moving, more and more, into the mainstream of finance, FinTech payments and banking world.”. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin.

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Regulatory Tracker: Sandboxes Gain, While Cryptos Wane

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The secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts has put the brakes on five initial coin offerings in that state. The specific directive from William Galvin, the state’s head securities regulator, commands that those firms abandon the sale of what have been termed “unregistered securities.” The firms named include Mattervest, Inc.,

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

8) Deposit Impact of Social Media: SVB’s customer base and followers were highly active on Twitter and other social media properties. The more active your customer base and “friends of the bank” are on social media, the shorter you can expect your deposit duration when sentiment turns negative.

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Stripe Sizzles, Auto Loans Fizzle And Sales Suck The Sizzle Out Of Retail

PYMNTS

Business tax cuts: The corporate world had reason to cheer this week, when Trump’s pick for incoming treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, stated that the number one priority in terms of regulation is to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank. Elizabeth Warren. And also there’s a lot of price-matching going on.”. It gets a lot less clear from there.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Heavy-handed regulators. Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Lifetime Achievement Award (Bank) Cambridge Savings CEO Wayne Patenaude looks to end a long and successful career at one of Massachusetts’ 10 largest banks. The Bank Regulator Working for Merchants Award! Seems like maybe this has been forgotten when it comes to these regulations. This award must go to the Federal Reserve.

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Startups, Researchers, And Tech Giants Are Making Computer-Augmented Brains A Reality

CB Insights

That may sound exciting, but brain tech is one area where the social media giant is playing catchup with the broader scientific community. Research on BCIs and BMIs – much of it funded by government sources – has been going on since the 1990s. (As Robotic commands from the nervous system.