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Tech Center: Orlando Dips Its Toes Into Tech Startup Water

PYMNTS

The city had a population of 270,934 in 2015, making it the 73rd largest city in the United States and the fourth largest in Florida. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: Can you describe your personal and/or professional experience with the tech community in Orlando? Median household income (2015): $42,318.

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Trade-based money laundering: The link to terrorist financing

Abrigo

See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. Misrepresentation is used to justify the movement of funds and, in some cases, reduce the tax obligation reflected on customs documents. Over- or under-shipment or phantom shipments: Over- or under-shipment involves misrepresenting the number of goods in a shipment.

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A Wealth of Possibilities

Independent Banker

For many community banks a solution has been to offer traditional retail brokerage services (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, insurance) through strategic alliances with broker-dealers that specialize in placing financial advisors in bank branches. But how can a community bank offer trust services profitably?

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Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain

PYMNTS

Florida, which recently legalized medical marijuana, saw its issuing of state ID cards slowed dramatically because Bank of America rather adamantly refused to touch online payments for medical marijuana cards. And so, when we talk to the community, we are seeing a lot of demand of a different solution that provides more function.”.

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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

One morning, President Trump tweeted his desire for an additional tax on all foreign-owned companies operating in the US. Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. That is a significant change in risk for a material part of a large community bank’s balance sheet.

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Here’s How The Opioid Crisis Is Losing Retailers $9B A Year

PYMNTS

Smith used drugs for the past decade before starting her recovery journey at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida. “As In addition, the crime cuts into state sales tax revenue: Tennessee loses more than $14 million a year to return fraud. As an addict, I just feel like I go to any length.”.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Heavy-handed regulators. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. FinTech threats and distractions.