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Duly Authorized

Independent Banker

Current best practices in fighting wire fraud. With wire fraud on the rise, community banks have to step up precautions to protect themselves and their customers. Wire fraud incidents nearly doubled to 27 percent in 2014, from 14 percent a year earlier, according to the 2015 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

However, interest in ICOs cooled after a number of fraud allegations and a crackdown by the SEC. Between 2008 and 2013, investors increased the amount of money under management in ETFs by more than 3x, with nearly half of that going into ETFs issued by BlackRock. In 2017, startups raised $5.6B

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

Most surprising was the sudden shutdown of Sprig, a startup in the beleaguered food-delivery space that first received funding in 2013. Note: Less than a month after the closure announcement, Vasupal was arrested for fraud in a bizarre case involving Stayzilla business dealings. Read more here. Product: del.icio.us. Product: Wishberg.

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