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Libra Could Pose Tax Challenges In Europe

PYMNTS

With the idea of pegging Libra’s value to a basket of international currencies, Facebook ’s proposed cryptocurrency would bring tax challenges to European users, per tax lawyers. As a result, capital gains and losses would be created. This seems to us to be a significant barrier to wide adoption.”.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million. These striking designs paid for themselves in media exposure.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

We must also keep our focus on protecting the 2017 tax cuts and, as always, monitoring and confronting credit union overreach. It’s an honor to work with them as we focus on advocacy, education and innovation for the community banking industry. For instance, ICBA is calling for congressional hearings on the credit union tax exemption.

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

PYMNTS

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. Instagram and PayPal Pair Up for Instacommerce.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets. 8) Deposit Impact of Social Media: SVB’s customer base and followers were highly active on Twitter and other social media properties.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” But, no worries, right, AOCI was excluded in regulatory capital ratio calculations, and we could hide some of that interest rate risk in HTM securities.

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Sacred Data for Sale, steal it while you can!

Lex Sokolin

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. They point to Fintechs and Crypto, the innovative parts of our economy, and accuse it of poor practices.

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