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Today In Digital-First Banking: Green Dot Debuts GO2bank; Stimulus Checks Pose Challenges For TurboTax, H&R Block

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In today’s top news in digital-first banking, California FinTech Green Dot is rolling out the GO2bank mobile banking to help cash-strapped individuals, while stimulus checks are reportedly posing challenges for some users of H&R Block and TurboTax. Green Dot Introduces GO2bank To Help Cash-Strapped Consumers.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

Path to removal – Sometimes an exception is like the Hotel California – you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked. and property tax payments. It just stays on forever.

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E-Signature Approval

Independent Banker

Webster says FDIC officials had “no issue” with the mortgage company’s use of electronic signatures during a recent exam of PrivatePlus Mortgage. Some vendors support electronic signatures for requesting tax return transcripts, Webster adds. Howard Schneider is a financial writer in California.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

3-yr average pre-tax ROA. Home Bank of California. pre-tax ROA: 3.08%. pre-tax ROA: 2.83%. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. 3-yr average pre-tax ROA. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Molly Bennett, executive editor, Independent Banker. Less than $300 million.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

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He compared the modern bitcoin boom to the California Gold Rush of yore — but a far less useful version, because bitcoin uses a lot of resources to produce something that’s not really all that useful at the end of the day and has no value at all except for the value an international pool of speculators have assigned to it.

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Pro-Pot SAFE Banking Act Hits Roadblock In US Senate

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That results in cash dominating legal pot transactions, which then increases the chances of theft and tax evasion, at least according to supporters of the SAFE Banking Act (not all of whom are necessarily 100 percent behind the idea of legalized recreational marijuana). Take California as one example. billion by 2020.

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SAFE Banking Act Gains Cannabis-Friendly Spotlight In Congressional Hearing

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In California , the industry will be worth at least $5.1 Such prohibition could involve limiting FDIC protections for those deposits, for example, or trying to prevent loans to those businesses. The speakers told stories of violent armed robberies, money laundering and tax evasion, among other negative impacts of a cash-based industry.

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