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Massachusetts Mutual To Buy FinTech RIA Platform Flourish

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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) has agreed with Stone Ridge Asset Management , which has over $10 billion in assets under management (AUM), for MassMutual to acquire FinTech registered investment advisor (RIA) platform Flourish , according to a press release.

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Massachusetts Reopens Its Dining Rooms

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Restaurant dining rooms in Massachusetts reopened on Monday (June 22), after being shuttered for three months. We are making the progress we’re making because of the actions that people here in Massachusetts are taking every day,” Baker said at his daily press conference on Friday (June 19).

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Massachusetts Regulators To Crack Down On Robinhood

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Robinhood has come under the watchful eye of regulators — this time in Massachusetts. The complaint is from the office of William Galvin, Massachusetts secretary of state. State regulators are set to file a complaint on Wednesday (Dec.

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Massachusetts Files Suit Against Uber, Lyft On Drivers’ Status

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Massachusetts is the second state to declare that Uber and Lyft drivers should be deemed employees under state wage and hour laws, the Attorney General’s Office announced on Tuesday (July 14). .

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Massachusetts to Sue Equifax for Data Breach

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Equifax is likely to face a lawsuit from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who said Tuesday that she plans to file a lawsuit against the credit rating agency over a data breach that’s compromised the personal information of the state’s residents. Cards Compliance Exclusive Security data breach Equifax massachusetts social security number sue

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Massachusetts Attorney General settles case alleging discriminatory pricing of auto add-on products

CFPB Monitor

On January 31, 2023, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (“Mass AG”) announced a settlement with Hometown Auto Framingham, Inc. Continue Reading Auto Finance Fair Lending State Enforcement auto discriminatory massachusetts

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Massachusetts is latest state to modernize credit union statues

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Financial regulations Massachusetts State-chartered credit unions Credit unions Law and regulationA bill updating the commonwealth's credit union act, signed into law on Jan. 12, is said to be the most comprehensive update of the state charter in 30 years.

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Provident in Massachusetts buys warehouse lending business

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Community banking M&A Warehouse lenders Mortgages Massachusetts Florida ConnecticutThe company acquired ResX Warehouse Lending from People's United Financial.

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Provident Bancorp in Massachusetts stung by cryptocurrency weakness

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Gas Payment Solution PayByCar Launches In Massachusetts

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A first-in-the-nation payment solution that allows drivers to purchase gas from their cars without taking out cash, a credit card or a mobile app has launched in Westborough, MA. Those with E-ZPass can register for PayByCar to easily pay for their gas at the Route 9 Alltown Mobil via their E-ZPass transponders and payment methods on file. “We We chose the MetroWest area to launch this new technology — and Westborough, MA specifically — because the community matches our target market demography.

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Apprenticeships at center of Massachusetts bank's diversity push

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Massachusetts Workplace management Workforce managementReading Cooperative Bank recently launched a program that aims to hire young Black and Hispanic adults from low-income communities. Its leaders say it’s part of a broad strategy to develop new pipelines of talent and better serve low-income communities.

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Massachusetts' Freedom Credit Union opens first location in Connecticut

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USDA picks 5 states for mobile SNAP payments pilot

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Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri and Oklahoma are working with the government agency to expand payment options for SNAP consumers

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Bitcoin Daily: US National Banks To Hold Reserve Currencies For Stablecoins; Stripe To Pay Massachusetts $120K In PlexCoin ICO Role

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In other news, Stripe will pay $120,000 to resolve claims that the payment processor’s “risk monitoring and fraud prevention and mitigation practices” contravened Massachusetts’s consumer protection law, according to an announcement from the state attorney general office.

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Massachusetts is latest state vying to become fintech hub

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Walmart Officially Sorry It Can’t Tell Massachusetts From Maryland

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Until this past Monday (April 4), the retail giant had confusingly sold a Russell Athletic t-shirt depicting an image of a state that was clearly Massachusetts yet with a facsimile of the University of Maryland’s “M” logo and the word “Terps” written within its borders (“Terps” was actually squeezed into the eastern “arm” of the state that is arguably Massachusetts’ most obviously identifying characteristic).

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CEO of Provident in Massachusetts departs ahead of earnings report

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Massachusetts bank rebranded to reflect national push

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Massachusetts Marketing Community banksProvident Bank was recast as BankProv to avoid confusion as it adds business lines and enters new markets.

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Massachusetts mutual taps insider as its next chief

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C-suite Massachusetts Community banking Succession planning Mutual banksJonathan Dowst will become president in July and CEO a year later.

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Trade group files lawsuit challenging Massachusetts emergency debt collection regulation

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It violates the Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute which protects parties from actions designed to chill petitioning activity (which actions would presumably flow from any violation of the provision of the regulation restricting court access).

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CEO of Hanscom Federal Credit Union in Massachusetts to retire

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Southern Mass Credit Union rebrands

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Massachusetts Division of Banks issues supervisory alert on NSF fees for representments

CFPB Monitor

The Division of Banks of the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has issued a supervisory alert to warn financial institutions of the potential legal and regulatory risks arising from NSF fees charged on the representment of unpaid transactions.

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Massachusetts Co-ops Planning Merger

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Abington Bank in Massachusetts is planning to merge with Holbrook Co-operative Bank in Massachusetts. breaking_news community-banking m-a ma dealmaking-strategy

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Massachusetts Throws Daily Fantasy Sports A Bone

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The Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts decided Friday (March 25) to establish a set of regulations that would allow Boston-based DraftKings and FanDuel to continue to operate within the state. In a short period of time, you see a very good set of tough consumer regulations in place that now let DraftKings move forward in Massachusetts,” Coakley said.

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Massachusetts Attorney General Moves to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Its Emergency Debt Collection Regulations

CFPB Monitor

On October 23, 2020, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a motion to dismiss in ACA International v. Massachusetts is still in the State of Emergency Period, but the 90-day period lapsed on June 24, 2020.

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Central One Federal Credit Union in Massachusetts names new CEO

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Massachusetts AG emergency regulation prohibits certain collection activity by both creditors and debt collectors

CFPB Monitor

On March 27, 2020, the Massachusetts Attorney General filed an emergency regulation interpreting the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, M.G.L. Debt Collection Regulatory and Enforcement debt collector massachusetts

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Hanscom Federal Credit Union in Massachusetts names new CEO

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Credit unions Industry News

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Federal court grants TRO in trade group lawsuit challenging Massachusetts emergency debt collection regulation

CFPB Monitor

A Massachusetts federal district court has entered a temporary restraining order that blocks the state’s attorney general from enforcing the prohibitions on initiating lawsuits and making collection calls in the AG’s emergency debt collection regulation promulgated on March 26.

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CFPB and Massachusetts AG file lawsuit against credit repair company

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The CFPB and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office have filed a lawsuit against a credit repair company and the company’s individual owner in federal district court in Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts deal signals return of larger credit union mergers in 2022

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Subprime auto lender reaches $27M settlement with Massachusetts AG

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HarborOne in Massachusetts names next chief executive

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District of Columbia enacts emergency debt collection law in response to COVID-19 pandemic; Massachusetts AG issues guidance on emergency debt collection regulation

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In contrast, the Massachusetts emergency regulation only restricts telephone calls to consumers.