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New York To Ease Cryptocurrency Regulations

PYMNTS

It will be easier for New York cryptocurrency businesses to launch in New York, thanks to a plan by regulators that would ease licensing rules. The existing licensee would provide the startup with the operational, staffing, and other support until it can obtain a full DFS virtual currency license.

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Capital One Adding Innovation Staff in New York

Bank Innovation

but it’s adding significant innovation staff to its New York office. Job ads for more than a dozen positions in the Big Apple were recently posted, and quite a few of them directly relate to the bank’s innovation effort. Capital One Financial Corp. may be based in McLean, Va., Here are just a Read More.

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SoFi, Coinbase Get the Green Light to Operate in New York

Bank Innovation

Ah, New York: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, but to even try, you need a license. After waiting a year, the lender SoFi received the thumbs up to operate in New York, CFO Michael Tannenbaum said recently. Luckily, SoFi and Coinbase just got theirs. Read More.

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New York State Regulations for Online Lenders to ‘Level Playing Field’ for Banks

Bank Innovation

For one thing, rising interest rates will increase their cost of funds, and perhaps make their offerings less attractive, and for another, regulations may arrive that make operating their businesses more expensive. In New York State, perhaps anticipating a […].

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Fintech Unfiltered: Inside HSBC Bank USA’s Lofty Innovation Strategy for 2018 [Podcast]

Bank Innovation

As a part of its retail transformation strategy, HSBC Bank USA spent over $130 million on innovation projects in one year on its U.S. operations. These projects range from less visible, but equally important, system upgrades on the back-end and more visible ones like installing Softbank’s robot Pepper in its New York flagship.

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Operant Calls for Consortium to Improve Debt Collection

Bank Innovation

Operant Founder and CEO Allan Fisch said at a meetup yesterday at Bank Innovation’s headquarters in New York that a consortium would allow the FIs to contribute anonymized data on the performance of their third-party […]. Toronto-based fintech Operant.AI

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Fintech’s Power Grab — in The New York Times

Bank Innovation

The New York Times covered the subject — and the word — in depth yesterday, in a special section called “Fintech’s Power Grab.” Ok, it’s safe to say fintech has hit the big time. ” The lead item, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC fame, focuses on the fintech challenge to Read More.

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