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Sen. Warren calls for increased safeguards in stablecoin legislation

American Banker

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week, the Massachusetts senator highlighted the growing use of cryptocurrencies by malicious organizations abroad and underscored the need for anti-money-laundering and counterterrorism provisions in future proposals.

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Bahamas Launches Digital Sand Dollar; Adds To Rise Of Central Bank Digital Currencies

PYMNTS

This week, FinTech EMTECH said it’s launching a compliance platform in collaboration with Microsoft to help central banks test their respective CBDCs. Meanwhile, the Boston Fed has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the necessary tech infrastructure.

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Bitcoin Daily: New Data Set To Help Flag Illicit Crypto Transactions; MIT Study Finds Only 2 Pct. Unlawful

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Cryptocurrency compliance company Elliptic has released the Elliptic Data Set, which aims to identify crypto transactions associated with money laundering. A big problem with compliance, in general, is false positives. However, the majority of the transactions, around 77 percent, remained unclassified. “A

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It’s time to embrace customer data privacy and security

Insights on Business

Now, new technology, business and regulatory challenges are forcing them to rethink how they collect and manage that data. Stricter regulations are changing the compliance landscape. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Customer data is the modern enterprise’s most valuable asset. A shifting regulatory landscape.

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Citi: Healing Broken PPE Supply Chains With Streamlined Cross Border Payments

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million pieces of PPE for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and others. By wielding Citi’s infrastructure to complete the transaction for The Boston Foundation and Bai, Flywire was able to ensure full compliance and quick transmission of SWIFT transaction data to the beneficiary bank in China.

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Main Street SMBs, Digital AP, GoodRx’s IPO Tops This Week’s News

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Massachusetts-based accounts payable (AP) automation technology firm MineralTree Inc. Money transfer organizations have to remain in compliance with regulations or they will encounter sizable penalties or let crime spread. A bank executive sent a memo to the workforce saying that they must not post to social media until 11 a.m.

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MIT’s Underground Delivery Solution

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” For that to be a reality, there are a number of regulatory and compliance issues to be addressed — not the least of which, notes WSJ , is the fact that only a few U.S. In a quest to solve the logistics challenges of competitive retail delivery, a group of scientists at MIT are taking the low road — as in, below ground.