CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

The last time that data was released (2009) by the trade group that represents these 13K outlets, they reported that 350 million transactions totaling $106 billion (with a “B”) of services was delivered to 30 million consumers. Ironically, the places with the highest check cashing fees are Maryland and Washington, D.C.).

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. And, in light of that, anything that even remotely smacks of crypto could seem a little tone-deaf, especially to the regulators, since no one but people in the Valley really get its value. But not their money.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. In addition, regulators claimed that as many as 80% of insurance plans sold in Washington state by Zenefits reps were sold illegally by unlicensed brokers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Warren Buffet made rails sexy again when he bought a railroad in 2009. launched its Faster Payments scheme, after the regulator said the banks had to comply, but has amped up ever since, as regulators in a few other countries have followed in the U.K.’s They are low-cost, efficient, tested and regulated. s footsteps.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 20, 2012

The regulatory definition of "well capitalized" has not changed post financial crisis. Tier 1 leverage ratio: 5% Tier 1 risk-based ratio: 6% Total risk-based ratio: 10% So where is all of this belly aching about capital requirements coming from? A typical article in an RO requires an FI to increase its capital based on perceived risk.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Since the recovery began in June, 2009, real GDP growth has averaged 2.3%. Third, the explosion in regulations over the past eight years has served to hinder businesses, especially new small business formation, and has drained valuable resources as compliance costs soared. since 2009. since 2009. and 2018 at 1.8%

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