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

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The eCase for Liberating $190B in Rental Security Deposits. In the old days, forged checks were the biggest problems that bank fraud departments had to manage. A slew of regulators and investigators reportedly are looking into QuadrigaCX’s shuttering of operations earlier this year. Trackers and Reports.

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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

Abrigo

Multifamily, commercial and automotive loans are driving loan growth among banks in the Northeast, but increasing risk will draw fresh attention from regulators to ensure recent and future growth is sound, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said recently. • Liquidity risk management and adequacy of contingency funding plans.

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Equifax Reaches Historic $575 Million Settlement Agreement Arising from 2017 Data Breach

CFPB Monitor

The FTC complaint alleges Equifax was aware of a security vulnerability in a database containing consumer inquiries about their personal credit data. million Social Security numbers, and 209,900 payment card numbers and expiration dates. Participating in third party audits of its security program every two years.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. How exactly it helps the IRS count and manage all that cash is something of a mystery. The federal government alone collected an estimate $4.7

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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. The startup, which was established in 2008, privately raised $185 million before its $100 million initial public offering was blocked by the Australian Securities Exchange last year.

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Will The SAFE Banking Act Make Life Riskier For Banks?

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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. More complicated because the disconnect between state and federal regulation of the substance is growing wider by the year.

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Entering the cannabis banking market

Independent Banker

However, the ambiguous legal landscape complicates compliance; 47 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. In the absence of explicit federal guidelines, banks and regulators follow the 2014 FinCEN guidance and the Cole Memo guidelines published under the Obama administration. We can upload docs securely.

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