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Kristen Larson joins Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group

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She is resident in the firm’s Minneapolis office. Kristen’s practice involves consumer, small business, and treasury management products and services; digital banking; emerging payments; servicing; innovative technology; information security; operations; marketing; and complex service contracts.

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BNPL Firm Sezzle Allies With Ally Lending To Expand Loan Options

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This will allow the Minneapolis-based Sezzle to offer more long-term loans. Sezzle is taking part in the growing buy now, pay later (BNPL) market. BNPL providers are seeing market growth , as the payment financing option is seen as a possible boost for shopping via smartphone, which has been a challenge for retailers. "We

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Ballard Spahr to hold card issuer workshops

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On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 in Minneapolis, and on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in Sioux Falls, Ballard Spahr will host complimentary card issuer workshops. For additional details and registration information, click here for the Minneapolis workshop and here for the Sioux Falls workshop.

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Some SMBs Switched Banks When PPP Loans Failed To Come Through

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In a July survey of 931 firms that received PPP loans, Barlow Research Associates, the Minneapolis-based bank market research company, revealed that of the businesses that secured PPP funding, 28 percent received their loan from a lender with whom they had no prior relationship or a bank that wasn’t their primary one.

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Digital Bank Startup Branch Offers Mobile Payments

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The Minneapolis-based company has partnered with Mastercard to offer consumers access to their funds through their Branch Mastercard debit cards by adding it to mobile wallets, including Apple Pay, from the Branch mobile app. . Branch , the digital bank startup, is branching out. This trend could be here to stay.

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CFTC Ups Crypto Regulation In 2018

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According to The Wall Street Journal , the federal derivatives-market regulator also handed out around $900 million in penalties, higher than the amount in five of the eight years of the Obama administration. Christopher Giancarlo boasted about the agency’s enforcement numbers in a recent speech in Minneapolis. CFTC Chairman J.

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3M Anti-Counterfeit Campaign Targets Respirator Knockoffs

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The Minneapolis-based giant said on Monday (Oct. million counterfeit respirators that were being falsely marketed as made by 3M. 5) that it has worked with law enforcement and customs agencies around the world to seize 3.5