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Visa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News

PYMNTS

Around the world, banks and FinTech firms are addressing challenges associated with enabling fund disbursements in real time – and some markets are developing real-time networks faster than others. In the old days, forged checks were the biggest problems that bank fraud departments had to manage. Fun, Cool and Otherwise Notable.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. Majority shareholders abandoned it.

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Fans and Foes of OCC True Lender Rule Spar at Senate Committee “Rent-a-Bank” Hearing

CFPB Monitor

Since the non-bank entity frequently is a fintech, these arrangements often are referred to as bank-fintech partnerships or marketplace lending arrangements. These speakers consistently conflated payday lending and bank-fintech partnership lending, and ignored correction of this mis-characterization by other witnesses.