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CORO Global Brings Gold Payment App To Alabama

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The company – and its gold trading app – just expanded its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to operate in Alabama. The FinTech also recently inked a deal with Dillon Gage , a big player in the world of precious metal trading. The future is looking a bit more golden for CORO Global.

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State Bank Regs File Suit To Block OCC’s Bank Charter

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More legal troubles have emerged for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over its plan to introduce national bank charters for FinTechs, aimed at making it easier for alternative financial services players to do business. Reports in Reuters on Thursday (Oct. Reports in Reuters on Thursday (Oct. The body of U.S.

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Big Fraud, Big FinTech and Big Uber Top Week’s News

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Visa Partner Launch Eyes $17T Digital Payments Opportunity For FinTechs. In fact, in the intervening 23 years, the situation has arguably gotten even more complex as 31 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized cannabis consumption for either legal or medical reasons. Reports and Trackers.

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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. Today, financial institutions (FIs) face a barrage of cyberattacks from hackers operating around the world, continuously shifting their tactics.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Fintech ‘Plastc’ Shuts Down After Cancelling All 80,000 Pre Orders. Product: Quidsi.

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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.