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Kristen Larson joins Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group

CFPB Monitor

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Kristen Larson, an attorney with almost two decades of in-house experience advising midsized and large national banks on financial services matters, has joined Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group. She is resident in the firm’s Minneapolis office.

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Education: By Popular Demand

Independent Banker

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Bitcoin Tracker: Up, Up And Away?

PYMNTS

and Minneapolis. “By Earlier this month, the BSP published guidelines for entities that offer exchange services, including a registration requirement with both BSP and the nation’s anti-money laundering organization. We hope to double that this year.”. Possibly even a couple of other continents by 2018.

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Instacart Rolls Out Grocery Pickup Nationwide

PYMNTS

7) the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service. Instacart, the online groceries company, announced Wednesday (Nov. “We want to make grocery shopping effortless by helping our customers get the groceries they need from the retailers they love.

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The Fed On Bitcoin: Much Ado About Nothing

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But their messages are remarkably similar: Digital currency is an interesting idea, and an ingenious use of technology. According to New York Fed economists Michael Lee and Antoine Martin, as well as Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, those fears are probably a bit overstated. He’s pretty certain it can’t be.

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New U.S. Bancorp Hire Part of Wealth Management Push

American Banker

The Minneapolis company's addition of Karen Wimbish, a former Wells Fargo executive, to oversee wealth management products is one of several moves by U.S. Bancorp as it builds up its investment-advisory services.

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Ballard Spahr Submits Comment Letter to OCC in Support of Proposed True Lender Rule

CFPB Monitor

Ballard Spahr LLP has submitted a comment letter to the OCC in support of its proposed rule , “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” (the “Proposed Rule”). Three virtually identical Federal Interest Statutes govern interest that may be charged by Banks: Section 85 of the National Bank Act (“NBA”), 12 U.S.C. §

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