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Brex Offers FDIC Insurance, Adds Chief Legal Officer

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a financial services holding company based in Kansas City, Missouri. This partnership aligns with UMB’s strategy of working with best-in-class innovators like Brex.”. Her role will include legal and compliance oversight including the company affiliate, Brex Treasury LLC, a Securities and Exchange-registered broker-dealer.

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Onward Financial’s Employer-Backed Payday Loan Alternative

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Regulators can ban payday loans – but no one can ban cars that break down, heating systems that drop dead in the middle of the winter, medical crises or any of the myriad unexpected financial events that send consumers running to the embrace of short-term lenders. But now, they are ready to think about expanding.

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Fed Looks To Keep Momentum Going On Payments Improvements

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For the Fed, progress means improving the speed, security and efficiency of the payments system, and to focus on international payments capabilities and promote collaboration within the field. Since establishing the Secure Payments Task Force, the Fed said efforts on payments security have been closely aligned with those on payments speed.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

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The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. Reception toward the initiative was not, however, universally positive. payments ecosystem. payments ecosystem.

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