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Buying into AML risks in real estate

Abrigo

Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue.

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What The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement Means After Wayfair

PYMNTS

Businesses depend on the public services tax revenues pay for: roads that facilitate deliveries, courts where firms resolve legal disputes and regulators that help protect businesses from fraud. Even businesses eager to pay their share, however, may feel that complying with tax laws is complicated. .

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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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CFPB Enters Into Consent Order With Reverser Mortgage Lender and Broker

CFPB Monitor

With regard to the method and volume of advertising, the CFPB asserts that since December 2015 Nationwide has mailed hundreds of thousands of mortgage advertisements and distributed flyers to older homeowners and financial professionals whose clients were older homeowners in at least 36 states and the District of Columbia.

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Giving Truckers Better Loans Can Lower Carbon Footprints: Here’s Why

PYMNTS

But proponents of rolling back regulations like Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao noted that the higher standards make vehicles more expensive and thus were keeping older, less clean and less safe cars on the road longer because consumers and businesses can’t afford to replace them. Read more in “Accelerating Opportunity.”

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Will The SAFE Banking Act Make Life Riskier For Banks?

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In fact, in the intervening 23 years, the situation has arguably gotten even more complex as 31 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized cannabis consumption for either legal or medical reasons. More complicated because the disconnect between state and federal regulation of the substance is growing wider by the year.

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Banking Regulation Predictions 2018:  U.S. Reform Takes Off

FICO

The surprise election of Donald Trump led to a 180-degree course correction of the regulatory agenda that bankers and compliance professionals had grown accustomed to in the wake of the financial crisis. A little-known impact of the recently forged tax deal. The post Banking Regulation Predictions 2018: U.S.