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Site Visits Fuel Anticipation For Amazon’s HQ2

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However, the suburbs of Montgomery County, Maryland and Northern Virginia, along with the District of Columbia, have “long been speculated to be frontrunners,” according to the paper. According to The New York Times in August, there are concerns that taxpayers could get stuck with a huge bill to cover those tax breaks and other incentives.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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In 2016 when the Panama Papers exposed an international network of offshore entities involved in tax evasion, fraud, and sanction evasion, some of which included real estate holdings, regulations began to change.

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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between

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Henrico County, Virginia. Last week, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that Facebook would be building its next data center in Henrico County, just outside of Richmond, to the tune of $1 billion — $750 million for construction and $250 million for solar facilities to power the data center. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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And nowhere in the region are these qualities more on display than in Massachusetts, the state that both brought us the phrase “Boston Strong” and countless memes of people barbecuing during blizzards. We also noted a trend in MA that we started noting in our previous jaunts to Virginia, South Carolina and New Hampshire.

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US B2B Startups Dominate $337 Million Worth Of Funding

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Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. -based startups dominated, with investors focusing on cybersecurity solutions and on startups that aim to streamline back-office functions.

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Payments And Commerce On The Campaign Trail

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A highly unscientific poll of our coworkers found that the average collection of people waiting for a bus in downtown Boston has a more cohesive political ideology than our staff, who are all supporting wildly different candidates for wildly different reasons. But not everywhere. The Cruz campaign was not so polite.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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Goes to Larry Mazza and the crew at MVB Bank in West Virginia. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim! The Bank That Gets Fintech. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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