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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

PYMNTS

Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. GFA, however, will offer basic financial tools to these businesses, including access to online banking, checking accounts, debit cards, cash management and payroll services.

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Cannabis Dispensary SaaS Provider Baker Technologies Raises $3.5M

PYMNTS

When Baker Technologies cofounder and CEO Joel Milton looked at the growing recreational cannabis industry in Colorado, one of the first things he noticed were long lines. The founders studied how the Colorado cannabis market grew. states and two Canadian provinces Baker serves to manage their customer relationships. “We

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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Banks also serve more seasoned military members whose loan terms, for example, are subject to different regulations. Branch manager Noemi Gallardo says the community bank tries to be a “yes” bank. “We ICBA is waking up members of Congress to the misconduct of credit unions, chiefly their tax exemption. Take action.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

PYMNTS

states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Heavy-handed regulators. Endless CRM and data management projects that shook our foundations and gutted our PMOs. The Just Kidding About the Whole Bank Thing Award – Goes to Fintech darling SoFI , whose management shakeup amid “behavioral issues” shifted the legal efforts from charter application to lawsuit and damage control.

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The 25 Most Absurd Job Titles In Tech

CB Insights

Today, Tabriz is a senior engineering director at Google, responsible for the entire Chrome browser while also managing Project Zero, one of Google’s internal security research teams. At the now defunct Convergys Corporation, new sales employees pitching the company’s customer management software were known as retail Jedis.

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Report from SBREFA Panel on Payday, Title and Installment Loans

CFPB Monitor

Present at the meeting were 27 SERs, 27 SER advisors and roughly 35 people from the CFPB, the Small Business Administration and the Office of Management and Budget. First, SERs pointed out that credit unions have a significant tax and funding advantage that lower their overall business costs. Cordray left the room for the day.

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