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Bank Regulators Probe Amazon Cloud

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The Federal Reserve orchestrated an official investigation of an Amazon facility in Virginia, kicking off what is expected to be ongoing oversight of cloud providers, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday (Aug 1). Regulators’ influence over non-banks is limited, and banks are left to vet their own vendors.

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California DFPI issues final regulations implementing 2018 law requiring consumer-like disclosures for commercial financing

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The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has issued final regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law on September 30, 2018 that requires consumer-like disclosures to be made for certain commercial financing products, including small business loans and merchant cash advances. .

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Update on state small business commercial financing disclosure laws

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Around the nation, regulators are preparing to implement and enforce new consumer-like disclosure laws for small business commercial finance providers. New York regulators have yet to issue final regulations implementing the state’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL), which went into effect on January 1, 2022.

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Alphabet-Owned Drone Co Fuels Expansion With Hiring

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The company wants to hire people to help it grow into new regions, help with the regulation of air delivery and find new business partners. . To fill these needs, Wing wants to expand its legal team by hiring a product counsel and a regulation lead to help foster company agendas with air regulators.

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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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Many municipalities are looking to help by proposing new uses for vacant retail sites, including a citywide initiative in Fairfax, Virginia called Activate Fairfax , where the Department of Economic Initiative is soliciting requests for interest in an abandoned Container Store location.

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OppFi files complaint to block “true lender” challenge by California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

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The OCC’s attempt to provide a clear bright line test for determining when a bank is the “true lender” in a bank-model program through a regulation was overturned by Congress under the Congressional Review Act.) Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Colorado.

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Hey, College Kid, Got The Munchies? Let Google Drone-Drop You A Chipotle Burrito

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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has announced the first initiative for Project Wing, its drone-delivery project: supplying Virginia Tech students with Chipotle burritos. Back in 2013, the FAA selected Virginia Tech, as part of the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), to be one of six unmanned aircraft test sites.

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