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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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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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‘Organized Retail Crime’ Is Growing (And Not Just Because Of The Pandemic)

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And in Florida, state and local officials in 18 counties last month broke up a ring that allegedly stole nearly $85,000 of easy-to-resell items like baby formula, diapers, and energy drinks from Publix, Winn Dixie, and Walmart — typically taking $350 to $900 worth of goods at a time. A Growing Problem.

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Zillow Expands Zillow Offers To LA, Orange County

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9), its second-largest housing market in the nation, GeekWire reported. Available in 22 markets, Zillow is planning 2020 expansions to Cincinnati, Ohio; Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma City and Tucson, Arizona. . Zillow Offers launched in Los Angeles and Orange County on Monday (Dec.

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NRF: Inventory Shrink Has $46.8M Impact On Retailers

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In the modern age of retail, a National Retail Federation (NRF) study has found that inventory loss, due to crime or error, is having a $46.8 According to the survey from the NRF and the University of Florida, 41 percent of polled retailers noted a rise in their inventory shrink. billion impact on the industry’s bottom line.

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Study: COVID-19 Fraud Reaches $100M

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The five most targeted states by the scams include the ones with the biggest populations: California, Florida, New York, Texas and Pennsylvania. These states accounted for one third of more than 150,000 instances of COVID-related fraud reported nationally by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since mid-March.

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The Pros And Cons Of Amazon’s Internal Security Tactics

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That is arguably what Amazon is doing with its method of internal security at some of its warehouses, which — as reported earlier this month — broadcasts on flatscreen TVs incidents of attempted (and failed) theft by workers and the penalties that befell them for their efforts (always job termination, sometimes arrest). As Stephen A.

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