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China’s Tax On Foreign eCommerce Sites

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China has some new taxes on goods imported through eCommerce sites, though it has also removed some duties that had previously been assessed. Food will now import at a higher duty price; previously the tax was 10 percent. Instead, it will wipe out those companies that were only seeking a policy loophole and operating in a gray zone.”.

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Uber Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Stay In Colombia

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After a ruling by a location regulator that the firm wasn’t fairly engaged in competition, Uber Technologies Inc. is asking for the Colombian government to put emergency regulations into place to enable its ridesharing service to continue running.

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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , community banks’ deposit market share dropped to 15% in 2022 from 22% in 2013. At the same time, the technology can reduce to seconds the time it takes for routine tasks like adding information from tax returns and financial spreading. The result?

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Should Obama ‘Heed The Call’ On Bitcoin?

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Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Because he believes there should be proper protection and regulation over them. How Bill Clinton’s administration dealt with the Internet in order to ensure it was not over-regulated. Fair point.

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The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin?

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Diehards, however, are still crying “ hodl ” — the cryptocurrency community’s rallying cry, inspired by an enthusiastic misspelling of “hold” in a 2013 Reddit thread. Last week, Chinese regulators went one step further and banned ICOs. Hodlers have hodled through a hard fork in the blockchain, which spawned Bitcoin Cash on Aug.

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The State of Banking

Jeff For Banks

In 2013, there were 6,812 FDIC-insured financial institutions. And I have never heard a regulator say the phrase "over capitalized". And since NIMs are holding steady, it leaves me to think that operating expense control or increased profitability in fee-based businesses are at work. Positive operating leverage!

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Bitcoin Blushing With Secret Admirers

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The brothers are aware of the security issues surrounding bitcoin and recommend that exchange operators and their regulators need to look closely at “multisig” security services, which require many people to sign off on a transaction. Gevers told Reuters: “I believe cryptofinance is the next big wave after the internet.

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