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Amazon Announces Next Whole Foods Delivery Expansion

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Grocery delivery for Prime members is taking its next great leap forward as Amazon and Whole Foods have announced that Prime Now Grocery is expanding to Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and San Antonio. Customers can start shopping from Whole Foods Market selection from the Prime Now website or by using the app available.

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Real Estate Money Laundering An Increasing Focus Of Governments

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Brigitte Unger, a professor at the Univerity of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is part of a fact-finding panel for Canada’s British Columbia on how to handle the increase of untraceable real estate purchases in Vancouver that are tied to crime syndicates and market abuse. Money laundering through real estate is about $1.6 As for the U.K.,

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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Key Takeaways Real estate markets are vulnerable to money laundering and fraud because of their transaction size and appreciation over time. The real estate market is enticing to more than just new homeowners or investors. Real estate market AML risks Real estate is a proven, traditional, and well-established marketplace.

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FinCEN Steps up Efforts to Protect Against the Six Biggest Threats to the U.S. Financial System

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FIs must understand the industry, the markets, and the risks. Follow the FinCEN advisories and watch for future guidance in this growing market. residential real estate market and helps them better understand how actors in markets with relatively fewer AML protections respond to new reporting requirements.

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FinCEN reissues real estate Geographic Targeting Orders

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At the end of 2021, the Biden administration announced that they would pay closer attention to corruption in the real estate market, with a special focus on all-cash commercial and residential real estate transactions.

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A Deep Dive into the Distribution of the FICO Score Across the US

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The San Francisco Bay Area has the highest average FICO® Scores as of April 2019, at 737, closely followed by Minneapolis/St. Paul and Boston. Las Vegas, San Antonio and Miami had the lowest average FICO® Scores (687, 680 and 678 respectfully) of the MSAs we evaluated. MSA 1 (City) Level View.