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Bitcoin Daily: US Regulators Join Global Financial Innovation Network; Colorado Explores Crypto Banking For Cannabis Firms

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financial regulators represent the interests and needs of the nation and its financial services stakeholders,” according to a statement. The possible law is expected to be similar to the Special Purpose Depository Institutions (SPDI) law passed in Wyoming. “By promoting knowledge-sharing on innovation in financial services, U.S.

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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

PYMNTS

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Included in that movement toward tech in capital markets, he said that could include blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI).

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Talk about your captive regulator! Even more obviously absurd, one provision would allow community credit unions in seven states—Montana, Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming—to serve their entire state. When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place. Kim DeVore, chief financial officer for Jonah Bank of Wyoming, in Casper, Wyo.,

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Utah’s new regulatory sandbox

CFPB Monitor

This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. The size of transactions involving money transmission are similarly regulated on a case-by-case basis.

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