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Today In Payments: California Proposes Financial Watchdog; Germany Launches Investigation Into Amazon

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California lawmakers are moving quickly to create a financial watchdog agency as a new department of their state government, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates financial crime across the nation. Germany Launches Investigation Into Amazon. Fed Exploring ‘Hypothetical’ Digital Currency With MIT.

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State Regulation, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Financial Services, FinTech, Charles Clark, Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, License, Regulation, Bank of Indonesia, FinTech, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, News

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Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Can the states make licensing – of the money movement kind – any easier?

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Bitcoin Daily: German Crypto Firm Shuttered After Pyramid Scheme Accusations; People’s Bank Of China Denies Bogus Announcement Of Stablecoin Launch

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But in May, authorities in Namibia called Karatbar a pyramid scheme, while last month, Florida’s financial regulator denied that the company had been issued a banking license. Website DECPAPI.com spotlighted an API with a countdown that showed the national stablecoin would launch on November 20. And the U.S.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Said Allaire of the bid to get digital currencies more front and center: “Regulators are getting their arms around them … the digital asset market is now moving, more and more, into the mainstream of finance, FinTech payments and banking world.”. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin.

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Cash-Strapped Entrepreneurs Squeezed Out Of Marijuana Business

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Tight regulations around the legal marijuana industry are barring non-wealthy entrepreneurs from entering the market, according to reports from Forbes on Wednesday (June 13). Reports also highlighted the successful and wealthy back stories of some of the nation’s current leading marijuana businesses.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Up, Up And Away?

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The bitcoin market cap was over $18.5 Louis, Missouri, the company’s first foray into the Midwestern market. Locations on the radar for new Coinsource ATMs in 2017, according to Sharp, included in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., On Thursday (Feb. percent over Wednesday’s close. Founded in Feb.

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Seven states and D.C. file lawsuit challenging FDIC “Madden fix” rule

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The FDIC’s rule purports to regulate activities of non-banks which are beyond the FDIC’s jurisdiction. We commented that the AGs’ similar attempt to dismiss Madden’s pricing impact on national banks and federal savings associations didn’t hold water and the same holds true with regard to Madden’s impact on FDIC-insured state banks.

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