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Becoming a “Bahama Mama” Crypto-Style: A Closer Look at The Digital Asset Landscape in The Bahamas

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Members of Perficient’s Digital Asset Team have advised followers in multiple online articles about the digital asset revolution and relevant regulations affecting the same in the United States. Highlights From Federal Bank Regulators’ Joint Statement on Cryptocurrency Assets – Perficient Blogs. Legislative Initiatives.

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Cryptos, Blockchain Listed Among SEC Priorities In 2020

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Call it, perhaps, a New Year’s Resolution list — for regulators. 8), the Securities and Exchange Commission ’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance and Examinations (OCIE) offered up a list of its priorities for the year that has just dawned. In documents released Tuesday (Jan.

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Libra Forces Cryptocurrency Regulators To Reexamine Procedures

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Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. The projected 2020 cost of AML compliance across all U.S. Now the company has enacted security and AML procedures, to the consternation of cryptocurrency advocates.

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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

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But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat. However, he noted that the move could negatively impact morale at DHS.

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Consumer groups urge CFPB to regulate fee-based earned wage access products as credit

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A group of 96 organizations and individuals, who describe themselves as consisting of “consumer, labor, civil rights, legal services, faith, community and financial organizations and academics,” have sent a letter to the CFPB urging the Bureau to regulate fee-based earned wage access (EWA) products as credit subject to the Truth in Lending Act.

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NYDFS requires regulated institutions to submit plans describing preparations for LIBOR transition by Feb. 7

CFPB Monitor

The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR cessation and transition risk.” (LIBOR is the acronym for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate.).

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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Virus Is Impacting The Online Gambling Industry

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Consumers sitting down to bet through their computers or phones likely do not want to receive winnings via checks and expect effortless digital payments — even with online gambling platforms’ security measures ensuring winners are properly verified. million in March 2020 from $67.5 million in March 2019. The state has earned $24.3

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