Remove Connecticut Remove Marketing Remove Online Remove Regulation
article thumbnail

The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

PYMNTS

Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”. The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S. All in, counting online and in-person wagers, Super Bowl betting was worth roughly $6.8

Online 134
article thumbnail

Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

PYMNTS

the San Francisco-based online bank, had the last laugh. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. Varo coming in as a full national bank, with an already proven market fit and massive demand for more-affordable digital-banking solutions, is a very exciting moment,” Walsh told Bloomberg.

National 172
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

NY DFS announces multistate investigation of payroll advance industry

CFPB Monitor

In its press release, the DFS claims that the investigation will look into “allegations of unlawful online lending” and “will help determine whether these payroll advance practices are usurious and harming consumers.” Illinois Department of Financial Professional Regulation. Maryland Office of the Commissioner for Financial Regulation.

article thumbnail

Accounting About-Face

Independent Banker

Instead of requiring complex modeling systems for institutions of all sizes, it now explicitly allows community banks to continue using their personal understanding of local markets to determine loan-loss reserves. To their credit, federal regulators have already showed they are on board with the approach laid out in FASB’s final standard.

article thumbnail

Ohio Lottery Makes A New Bet on Mobile

PYMNTS

Pat McHugh, senior vice president of North American lottery systems at Scientific Games, said at the time that the gift cards will add a degree of flexibility to an already popular market. In Connecticut, for example, you cannot buy tickets with a credit card. Lotto and Payment Cards. And those rules come in different flavors. “In

Ohio 103
article thumbnail

What Shiny New Life Insurance Startups Can Learn From My Mistakes

Tech and Finance

Having founded a financial services startup previously, I assumed that I would be able to buy a basic term life insurance policy completely online. Haven Life, the online life insurance agency I co-founded as a result of my own experience, turns one year old this month. Everything in life insurance is subject to regulation.

article thumbnail

Partnerships, Pivots And Bookended Data Breaches

PYMNTS

But it seems Goldman has decided to at least start trying by introducing the world to Marcus — their new online lending platform “for the masses.” ” Named for Marcus Goldman, one of the firm’s co-founders, Marcus is set to officially hit the market this fall, according to internal sources quoted by The New York Times.

Data 100