CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (“DoBS”) just released Guidance declaring that virtual currency, “including Bitcoin,” is not considered “money” under the Pennsylvania Money Transmission Business Licensing Law , otherwise known as the Money Transmitter Act (“MTA”). Click here to subscribe to Money Laundering Watch.).

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. Regulating bitcoin exchanges is starting to happen in other parts of the world.

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ZootBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

One nationally acclaimed expert on banking, Kevin Jacques, recently predicted that if Clinton wins the election she will appoint individuals largely from the world of politics with an eye toward strengthening financial regulation and oversight of the banking system as a whole. Department of the Treasury and a decade as a bank regulator.

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