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The United States May License Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Exchanges

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The Acting Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, Keith Noreika, has stated that he is considering imposing a nationwide licensing program for cryptocurrency exchanges, similar to the licensing program recently enacted in Japan.

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Promethium Subsidiary Receives First FINRA-Approved Digital Asset Custodianship

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The approval allows Promethium to custody digital asset securities on behalf of both retail and institutional clients. Secondly, as a qualified custodian, which is what the SPBD classification offers, subjects Promethium to provisions of the landmark United States Exchange Act of 1934. The significance of this is two-fold.

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Transaction Accounts: Analyzing Deposit Stickiness in the Current Interest Rate Environment

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Retail banks respond to the Federal Reserve’s short-term interest rate adjustments with corresponding changes in lending and deposit rates. However, in the current rising interest rate environment in the United States since 2022, loan rates have adapted more rapidly than deposit rates.

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Walmart Associates Train For Black Friday With Virtual Reality

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To enhance the training of its employee associates, Walmart is investing in virtual reality (VR) to help employees experience retail situations like the Black Friday rush. With its initiative, 17,000 headsets from Oculus Go will reportedly arrive at 4,700 stores in the United States, Vox reported.

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5G Network Rollout Delayed In China, Flights Canceled Due To Coronavirus

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The coronavirus has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors ranging from transportation to telecom and retail. And, in brick-and-mortar news, Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing has reportedly reopened roughly 100 retail locations in China as of last week.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Tencent Says Big Tech Needs Greater Oversight; Group Seeks To Block Maryland Online Ad Tax

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The European Commission told Amazon of its “preliminary view that it has breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in online retail markets,” according to the statement. The technology industry in China has grown mostly unhindered, as has been the case in the United States.

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Weekly Wrap: Coronavirus dislocation continues to rock fintech

Bank Innovation

In a week that saw the coronavirus pandemic amplify in the United States, the fintech sector continued to weather economic dislocation and uncertainty. But even amid this uncertainty, fintech companies began formulating strategies to help banking and consumers emerge from the crisis with better tools and solutions.

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