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Rent-A-Center Acquires Acima For Virtual Lease-To-Own Platform

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Founded in 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Acima operates in over 15,000 retail partner locations and eCommerce platforms. Upon the closing of the transaction, the current Acima management team will report to Preferred Dynamix Executive Vice President Jason Hogg , and the combined business will be reported in the Preferred Lease segment.

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Bitcoin Daily: SEC Freezes Crypto Firm?s Assets, Alleging It Stole $12M From Investors; Hong Kong: 39 Pct Of New FinTechs There Are Blockchain Firms; Coinbase Eyes Selling Blockchain Analytics To IRS, DEA

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The defendant in the case is Utah resident Daniel F. Rodriguez of Utah and Jean Paul Ramirez Rico of Colombia — are alleged to have lied to investors and misappropriated funds. The group managed to get $12 million from 2,000 investors, Coindesk reports.

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Subscription Business Models Lead B2B VC Funding

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This week saw an impressive $324 million in combined funding for a range of B2B FinTechs and other solution providers, including alternative lenders looking to support small businesses as they manage working capital instability. Operating a platform that helps organizations manage their documents, eFileCabinet recently announced $11.5

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Citigroup Ponders Suburban Satellite Offices 

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The Philadelphia-based private real estate investment management firm owns buildings in northern New Jersey as well as in Stamford, Connecticut. Over the past several years, bigger corporates like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have moved some of their operations out of New York City to save money on overhead.

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Play Store Has State AGs Exploring Third Google Lawsuit

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Alphabet-owned Google could be hit by a third lawsuit by state attorneys general, this time over its management of the Play Store, Reuters reported on Friday (Jan. This latest Google probe will be headed by the attorneys general of Utah, North Carolina and New York, one of the sources said. 15), citing sources. .

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Utah’s new regulatory sandbox

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed H.B. The sponsor of Utah’s legislation, Rep. ” Utah’s regulatory sandbox, which is effective as of May 13, is similar in many respects to Arizona’s sandbox, which began accepting applications in August 2018 and now has six participants. 378 , Regulatory Sandbox, into law on March 25, 2019.

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GPS Capital Markets For Sale, Sources Say

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As of last year, the company employed 63 people, reports said, citing Utah Business data. PE Hub noted that among GPS Capital Markets’ direct competitors is Cambridge Global Payments, another foreign exchange management and cross-border B2B payments company that was acquired by FLEETCOR in 2017 for about $690 million. “We

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