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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

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Understanding the competitive banking landscape helps community banks set proper pricing, respond to rival marketing, and compete more effectively. Many existing community bank customers and prospects are also national bank customers. The largest 100 banks dominate the industry with almost 75% of the market share.

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Figure CEO: Figure Pay, National Bank Charter Will Boost Financial Inclusion

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Figure Pay, he said, with the ability to scan QR codes at checkout, is predicated on the concept of using a blockchain payment rail in lieu of interchange as the network is built out — and across a swath of merchants as large as Walmart and small as localized farmers’ markets (in a type of “barbell” approach) upon initial launch early next year.

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Lawmakers Eye Alternatives To Renter Security Deposits

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Lawmakers across multiple states are considering legislation to reconfigure the often burdensome security deposit structure that adversely affects renters of less financial means, according to the Wall Street Journal. As many as one fourth of all renters in the United States devote 50% or more of their monthly expenses to rent.

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Bitstamp Secures EU’s First Bitcoin Exchange National License

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Bitstamp has stamped its name in the record books in the EU for being the first company of its kind to secure a national license to operate as a bitcoin exchange. “This is an unprecedented moment for the bitcoin and brings with it a new era of security and transparency to the industry,” the company wrote on its blog.

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Bitcoin Daily: 7,000 Crypto ATMs Worldwide, Data Says; Marshall Islands Plans National Digital Currency

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The appointed organizer for the initiative, SFB Technologies, tapped the Algorand protocol because of its scalability, speed, security and its “ability to effectively implement required compliance controls and the transaction finality needed for a national currency.” in the fall of 2019.

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Bitcoin Daily: Travala.com Combines With TravelbyBit; France Tests Blockchain-Operational Digital Euro

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.” The firms will cross-market each of their travel services as the initial step of the merger. In other news, France has become the first nation to test out a blockchain-operational digital euro with successful results, Banque de France announced on Wednesday (May 20).

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Disrupting The Security Deposit With Insurance

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The average security deposit in the U.S. And of course averages can be misleading — in Manhattan that rent average is over $4,000 a month, while in Wichita, Kansas (the least expensive market in the survey) rents are still well below $1,000 at $639 a month.

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