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St. Louis Fed Pushes For Mass Testing Over Quarantine

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James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, estimated that the quarantine is costing the U.S. We should be thinking about risk management,” Bullard said, according to a Tuesday (April 14) report in the St. Louis Business Journal, citing a virtual conference by the St.

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Fed Casting Wary Eye On FinTech Firms’ Infrastructure Access?

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Yet now, said Reuters, the Fed has said there is not enough risk management in place to allow FinTechs full-fledged access to the payment system. Louis Fed President James Bullard told Reuters in November, the FinTechs “probably do want access to the payments system, but they don’t want the regulation that would come with that access.

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