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Highlights From Federal Bank Regulators’ Joint Statement on Cryptocurrency Assets

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Recognizing that regulated and non-regulated financial institutions seek to engage in cryptocurrency and crypto asset activities, the three largest federal bank regulators, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, recently issued a joint statement on crypto assets.

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Funding Options Criticizes UK Approach To Late SMB Tax Payments

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Alternative small business lending platform Funding Options has criticized U.K. tax authorities’ approach to small businesses that fall behind on tax payments. The tax authority applied to close 4,160 businesses last year, reports noted. That’s an 11.5 That’s an 11.5

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10 Lessons We Learned at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payment Conference

South State Correspondent

Last week, Nacha held its Smarter Faster Payments Conference in Miami, a significant event for over 1,800 bankers and vendors. With 142 presentations and panels, the content was tailored to the needs of every bank interested in payments. Nacha saw three strong presentations covering various legal aspects of payments.

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China Turns To Tax Policy To Bolster Entrepreneurs

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China introduced new tax initiatives aimed at bolstering the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to local news reports on Friday (May 4). Vice finance minister Cheng Lihua introduced seven new tax policies during a press conference Friday, with the goal of saving small businesses $9.45 billion a year, reports from Xinhua said.

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Fast Action: Tennessee Sportsbook Bets Service Quality On Instant Payments

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While most people have played an office Super Bowl or March Madness pool, Hodges said that legal, regulated betting on sporting events has largely been a cash market enterprise that was the domain of black market bookies. Even so, she said there is a lot of room to grow the payments portion of the business. The High Rollers.

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Warren Warns Against Loosening Short-Term Lending Regs; Mnuchin Speaks Against Libra

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Recent short-term , or repo, lending issues have Sen. Elizabeth Warren worried that banks could potentially use the problems to justify easing regulations on the banking industry as a whole. The cash crunch contributed to an overnight lending rate high of 10 percent.

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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

Critical capital Should CRE lending be off the table? Recent headlines may lead bankers to believe that shunning commercial real estate lending is the safest path to limit or avoid credit risk, given stresses on CRE and regulatory concerns. But that might not be the best move for your financial institution or your community.