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FedNow is necessary, Fed digital currency is not: Mester

Payments Source

The Cleveland Fed president dismissed concerns about the central bank's faster payments system competing with The Clearing House's network, while saying that a national digital currency is less of a necessity in the U.S. than in other countries.

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Rocket Mortgage Parent Plans $3.3B IPO

PYMNTS

Gilbert, who also owns the National Basketball Association (NBA) team the Cleveland Cavaliers , controls 79 percent of the voting power for the company’s common stock. The company filed the initial IPO prospectus covertly, in what was speculated to be one of the bigger IPOs of the year. His net worth is sitting at $7.8

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

PYMNTS

This belief is based on “the Company’s operating plan, that current working capital and expected continued inventory and capital expenditure financing is sufficient to fund operations and satisfy the Company’s obligations.”. Ontario (L.A.), Oklahoma City, and Memphis. It is only part of a stepped-up marketing effort. “We

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Community banks most likely to approve small business loans

Abrigo

Over the first half of 2014, these banks, with an approval rate of just under 60 percent, beat out large national banks (31 percent), large regional banks (45 percent) and online lenders (38 percent). Its goal was to capture the perspectives of small businesses with less than 500 employees across ten states.

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Retail Enabler: CardinalCommerce Protects SMBs From Holiday Fraud

PYMNTS

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to increase year over year — while some project online holiday sales at $98 billion, new estimates from the National Retail Foundation project that this year’s online holiday sales could reach $117 billion. ‘Tis the season … to be very, very wary of phishing and other types of fraud.

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ORACLE: Swinging the Bat in Cloud Services

Celent Banking

" For the largest banks like Capital One that have significant IT development capabilities in-house and with the willingness to experiment with new technologies, AWS makes a lot of sense. Most banks, however, are not Capital One. " and have moved onto the more interesting question " How cloud? "

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Amazon Sizzles, zCash Fizzles And ‘Cyber-9/11’ Is A When Not An If

PYMNTS

Cleveland – well at least blowing their three game lead wasn’t the fizzle of the week – that honor goes to U.S. Big traction among larger merchants and a strong showing by its Square Capital business point toward the firm moving beyond its one trick pony status as a processor for SMBs. national security.

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