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A digital-first bank for south Florida

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Banking veteran Keith Costello cofounded Locality Bank, where he serves as president and CEO, to champion for south Florida small businesses financially affected by the pandemic. In partnership with Nymbus, the bank’s custom digital platform is built on a secure cloud-native core banking system with an open API architecture.

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Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company

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A cybersecurity research team at vpnMentor has discovered that The Pyramid Hotel Group, which manages Marriott and other hotel brands, underwent a data leak exposing vulnerabilities that could potentially be used by criminals, the company said in a report. The company said it contacted the hotel group about the breach.

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Florida City Pays Hundreds Of Thousands To Hackers

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One small Florida city has had to pay cybercriminals thousands of dollars in ransomware. The week before, Riviera Beach, a Florida city of about 34,000, agreed to allow its insurance carrier to pay about $600,000 during its own cyberattack — nearly 12 times the size of the ransomware the city of Atlanta refused to pay last year.

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Bitcoin Daily: SEC Charges Florida Crypto Trader In $6.8M Fraud Case; Salt Lending To Pay $250,000 Fine, Refund ICO Investors; SEC Alleges Swedish National Bilked Crypto Investors Of $1.5M

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims that a Florida digital currency trader purportedly bilked customers out of $6.8 The individual was charged with different contraventions of securities laws in a U.S. The SEC claims that the ICO served as an illicit unregistered offering of securities, the report stated.

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Google Becomes $450M Investor In ADT For Home Security Tie-Up

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s Google is expanding its reach into the home-security business by buying a $450 million stake in ADT, the Florida-based provider of security and smart-home solutions. 3) that it’s entered into a long-term partnership with ADT to create what the companies are calling the next generation of smart-home security offerings.

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Bitcoin Daily: Hdac, CertiK Partner For Blockchain-Powered IoT; Tezos Expected To Settle Securities Lawsuit With $25M Settlement

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Connie Ngo , CertiK’s marketing manager, told CoinDesk in an email that the companies agreed “it would make sense to formally partner with one another as a public promise of Hdac’s focus on security and a symbol of CertiK’s ability to support larger enterprise-level solutions such as Hdac’s.”

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US DOJ Charges 14 With $28M In PPP Fraud

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In Florida, nine defendants have been charged in the U.S District Court for the Southern District of Florida with wire and bank fraud and conspiracy for seeking $24 million in forgivable PPP loans. Mckenzie, 38, of Miami Gardens, Florida; Andre M. The defendants include Damion O.

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