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Popular Bank Implements Branch Realignment in the New York Metro Region to Enhance Focus on Communities and Small Business Support

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Popular”) (NASDAQ: BPOP), bank holding company of Popular Bank, today announced Popular Bank’s strategic realignment of its New York Metro branch network. The branch closures, which are expected to be completed simultaneously by January 29, 2021, are projected to reduce annual operating expenses by approximately $13 million.

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Following The Madoff Money

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billion is tied to two hedge funds based in the Caribbean, with at least some of the radio silence stemming from the possibility of a “calculated decision” made by those funds not to shed too much light on their operations. Of that $2.5 billion thus unclaimed, said the newswire, roughly $1.2 There was a $25 million settlement in that case.

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Could This Be The Last Time We Change The Clocks?

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Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico, where daylight savings time is not observed. But “or” is the operative word in that sentence – and the reason we are all likely looking at a DST-rich future. And more states – New York and Connecticut the most populous among them – are considering making a similar permanent DST move.

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$120B Still Available As Appetite For PPP Loans Slows

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Small businesses are keeping their employees on payroll and earning salary,” said Steve Bulger, SBA Atlantic Regional Administrator who oversees the federal agency’s operations in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. .

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FinCEN AML/CTF Priorities Part 4: Counterproliferation

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Kim Chol-Sam Kim Chol-Sam and British banker Nigel Cowie created numerous shell companies (was named in the Panama Papers linked to Mossack Fonseca the Panamanian law firm) including “DCB Finance”, in the British Virgin Islands, mainland China, and Hong Kong.

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