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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

PYMNTS

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. And while that is bad news for a startup like Uber, as it turns out, instinctive fear of the regulator is not an endemic condition among startups.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. And then regulators are forced to backtrack.

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The community banks standing by hospitality customers

Independent Banker

Between the [Trump] administration and Congress and the regulators, they did a terrific job of allowing banks to work with their borrowers,” says Jeff W. Another option would be to do a separate loan to amortize those deferred payments, which again would be dependent on regulators, he adds. Dick, chairman and CEO of $1.7

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Bad Actors Emerge in PPP Lending – More Expected as Forgiveness Guidance Emerges

Abrigo

Other forms of fraud include identity theft, misrepresentation, such as inflating payroll numbers, and “loan stacking,” which the OCC refers to as an applicant receiving PPP loans from multiple lenders. It is not too late to perform CDD and transaction monitoring of these businesses – the regulators will expect it.

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Will Dynamic Pricing Change How Automotive Parts are Sold?

PYMNTS

Regulators, for instance, might end up taking a closer look at the use of pricing software in this sector. No further details were immediately available about the case, or how Accenture is now pitching the pricing software and service.

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An Open Road For Open Banking?

PYMNTS

there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom. the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. But regulators may have to take a more hands-on approach as data sharing comes into focus.

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AI-Driven Facial Recognition Is Coming And Brings Big Ethics And Privacy Concerns

CB Insights

To train their neural network to assess facial keypoint similarities, the team seeded their system with a pre-existing data set – a process referred to as “transfer learning.” ” CREDIT: IEEE-ICCVW 2017. But Singh also recognizes that it could be used for more nefarious purpose.