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Lawmakers Question Amazon About Ring Smart Doorbell Data

PYMNTS

Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. Ring users place their trust in us to help protect their homes and communities, and we take that responsibility very seriously,” a spokesperson said.

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Community Bank History: Peoples National Bank, Hallstead, Pennsylvania

Jeff For Banks

Community banks tout themselves as better than national and regional banks because of how close they are to their communities. When the bank opened in 1905, Hallstead was already a thriving community. The bank showed deposits of $596,589 prior to the stock market crash of 1929 (approximately $10 million in today’s dollars).

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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CFPB holds field hearing on proposed rules for prepaid accounts

CFPB Monitor

Yesterday I attended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) field hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, at which the CFPB unveiled and accepted public comment on its long-awaited proposed rule for prepaid accounts under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Regulation E) and the Truth In Lending Act (Regulation Z) (the Rule).

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Grocery Upgrades, Entertainment Expansions

PYMNTS

The goal, analysts note isn’t to steal market share from the leaders. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan were co-signatories of a letter Wednesday (Nov. Both Apple and Spotify have much, much larger song catalogs that Amazon offers.

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Finance in motion— $1B moved for $0.02

Lex Sokolin

Every other person had a physics PhD and worked in risk management for large capital markets trading desks. Ethereum has the best developer community still, and there are things you can actually do with digital assets on this chain. But when you look at market cap and activity, Tether remains top dog. More on that later.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The sophisticated food hall: North 3rd Street Market (Brooklyn). Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). That’s not a new development.