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American Dream?Miami Receives Approval From Florida Officials

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million-square-foot American Dream Miami — potentially the most expensive mall ever built — has received approval from officials in a Florida county. American Dream Miami will include 2,000 hotel rooms, along with features such as an ice-climbing wall, an indoor ski slope and a water park that will supposedly come with a “submarine lake.”

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Flight Attendants Charged With Money Laundering In Miami

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Four flight attendants for American Airlines were arrested and charged with money laundering after police seized $22,671 between them at Miami International Airport on Monday (Oct. 21), according to a report by CNN. The attendants were going through customary customs checks when the money was discovered.

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Four Flight Attendants Charged With Money Laundering In Miami

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Four flight attendants for American Airlines were arrested and charged with money laundering after police seized $22,671 between them at Miami International Airport on Monday (Oct. 21), according to a report by CNN. The attendants were going through customary customs checks when the money was discovered.

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Bitcoin Daily: Turkey To Test Digital Currency In 2021; Japan Prepares To Issue CBDC; Bitcoin Crests $28,000

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The update will help to alleviate a common issue with bitcoin in that there were few user-friendly, secure methods to buy, sell and use cryptocurrency in general. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez might want to make his city a hub for crypto at the government level, a report from CoinDesk says.

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Latin America Tries To Tackle Its Digital Security Problem

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But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami. Fraud is a Top Worry. Growing Awareness.

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It Might Be Time For Your Bank To Get On Snapchat

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We learned how not to play ourselves, how to secure our bag, how to bless up and how to use Snapchat all from a man called DJ Khaled.

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How Swap.com Kept Fraudsters From Ruining Christmas

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Fraudsters are deploying strategies, such as credit card theft and false chargebacks, to capitalize on online marketplaces’ security vulnerabilities, and merchants are scrambling to anticipate and counter fraudsters’ emerging schemes. It turns out there was a big data breach. … How Swap.com Stomps Out Fraud.

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