Abrigo

MARCH 9, 2015

The latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile was just released and the industry continues to be led by the nation’s community banks. Net income was up almost 28% over the fourth quarter of 2013 led by higher net operating revenue and lower loan loss provisions. percent from 2013. percent to $36.9

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Chipotle’s Digital Gains. As you enjoy your burrito today – or perhaps just think about burritos – also give thought to the innovative strides being made in the QSR world.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Access National Corporation #4. versus 68.5%, respectively) and its operating expenses as a percent of average assets compared to peer banks (1.66% versus 3.09%, respectively).So, So, as a branchless bank, BofI has leveraged its significantly lower operating expenses into profit. BofI Holdings, Inc. #2.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2018

On September 21, 2018, the Attorney General for the State of Washington filed a lawsuit (see complaint ) against several companies engaged in purchasing charged-off consumer debts, for operating as “collection agencies” without a license, in violation of the Washington Collection Agency Act (WCAA).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2020

He was part of an ongoing probe by the National Bureau of Investigation and the Anti-Money Laundering Council. . Wirecard reportedly provided multimillion-dollar loans to Bauer to operate his two businesses in the Philippines, PayEasy Solutions, an online payment company, and Froehlich Tours, a bus and coach rental company.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

In a press release posted on Thursday (March 24), the DOJ confirmed that the individuals were charged by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York and are accused with launching an extensive campaign of DDoS attacks against 46 victims between late 2011 and mid-2013. Through the work of our National Security Division, the FBI, and U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A wide range of biometric solutions are being used to develop national identification systems around the world. The following Deep Dive examines the potential use cases for biometrics in national identification systems and the security pitfalls they could encounter. . A reported 3.6 Digitizing government services .

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Their respective operators have also been arrested. AlphaBay has been down since early July — since the arrest of founder Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian national living in Bangkok. Two men in Germany were arrested as the operators of Hansa (their nationality seems to be unknown). You got this one law enforcement.”

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AUGUST 29, 2016

26) they seized around €1 million earlier in 2016 in connection with a operation that was being run on an online dark market. In a report by CoinDesk , a representative of Finland’s customs office said the online drug site was named Valhalla, which has been in operation since Oct. Finland customs agents announced on Friday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Restaurant management app Revention is teaming with on-demand logistics platform DoorDash to help restaurateurs streamline delivery operations, Revention said in a press release on Tuesday (Aug. The partnership wants to build out restaurants’ operational efficiencies and eventually include supply fulfillment and last-mile logistics. “The

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The combination of leaked National Security Agency (NSA) tools, plus state-sponsored capabilities, triggered a systemic event,” Mark Camillo, head of cyber for EMEA at AIG, said in a statement. researcher hadn’t quickly found and activated the kill switch.”. “The researcher hadn’t quickly found and activated the kill switch.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

The transaction itself shows Ant Financial, which operates as an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, the eCommerce giant, making inroads into the United States, which has been a goal of the parent company. Last September the Chinese firm bought EyeVerify, a mobile eye recognition tech firm that operates stateside. The $13.25

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Alibaba co-founded Cainiao in 2013 to bring organization to Chinese logistics, especially when it comes to online shopping deliveries. As it stands, the company is said to power a large volume of the logistics needs of Alibaba in the nation. The affiliate reported revenue of $680m in the quarter that concluded in September.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

auditing giant KPMG was hit with yet another fine from the nation’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC). million in fines for its audits of Ted Baker in 2013 and 2014 after the company admitted misconduct to the FRC. Reports in Bloomberg said KPMG was hit with $2.7 “This would help the process of making changes to the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Some speculate that evolving a nuclear program is not easy work when a nation is under extreme sanctions — and the money has to come from somewhere. The Korea Financial Security Institute is now reporting a second group using Lazarus that has been attacking South Korea since 2013.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

These days, however, Uber is spending its time, increasingly, in court and has even managed to allow things to break down completely in Austin such that it doesn’t operate there anymore. Said charter will mean that Circle will face tighter scrutiny but great ease operating on a national scale.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Yet, instead of offering the option to pay now and buy later, the credit cards reversed the order of operation and allowed customers to buy now and pay later over time. On another note, the shopping time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year is six fewer days , the shortest time since 2013. Other winners included O.M.G.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

The recent news that Colorado National Bank had been bought for that sum begs a few questions. They are the owners of Transact Pro , which operates as a payments processing firm in Latvia. The bank now gets a bit of fashioning, as the Latvian duo now join the board (Chapter 11 allows firms to operate as they restructure their debts).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

The FTC is cracking down on robocall telemarketing businesses, announcing last week it cracked down on two such companies that have been making robocalls to consumers that have been on the National Do Not Call Registry since 2012 or even earlier. According to a press release by the FTC late last week, lots of the defendants in FTC v.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

It is annual report season, meaning publicly traded financial institutions are finalizing their 2013 numbers and submitting their 10k''s to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In preparation for meetings, I frequently read 10k''s. If you haven''t read a 10k, it will win no literary awards, especially for originality.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 30, 2020

Donna Roy will serve as Chief Information Officer in the Bureau’s Operations Division. Rachelle Vaughan will serve as Chief Procurement Officer in the Bureau’s Operations Division. Before joining the Bureau, she served as Director of Procurement Services for the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

The latest research comes as the G7 nations prepare for a cross-border cyberattack simulation. Since 2013, 170 local government systems — at least — have been attacked by cybercriminals , new data from Recorded Future revealed. PYMNTS runs through the data points of all these stories and research reports, plus more, below.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Separately, ADP’s recent National Employment Report showed positive hiring trends among small companies, too. Small firms accounted for nearly two-thirds of the net new jobs created between 1993 and mid-2013, and they provide nearly half of private-sector employment. Small Business Administration , there were 28.2 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

Three bodies — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — issued joint guidance in 2013 that recommended FIs not provide loans to businesses that would push their corporate debt levels above six times their earnings.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Expanding operations to reach customers like these requires that businesses not only offer appealing products and services, but also provide payment experiences that are both convenient for consumers and easy for the companies to manage.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

approached him about a leadership position in 2013. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent national unrest, Williams talked with other business leaders about ways to close the racial wealth gap. Location: Arkadelphia, Ark. and Southern Bancorp Community Partners, a $40 million nonprofit loan fund. Closing the gap.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

With WFM shares down by more than half since their peak in 2013, some investors might be pining for the good, old days of growth — though relative stability is certainly nothing to balk at. These farms have five years to alter their operations. Big-box warehouse club Costco’s (COST) stock saw a week’s worth of decent growth.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the first neobanks in the region, Nubank , traces its genesis back to 2013, having raised hundreds of millions of dollars to expand across several financing rounds. In addition, passporting can help companies expand services across nations. In terms of technology, APIs help facilitate access to that data.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. It also examines how community banks are different than other types of financial institutions, along with strategies for optimal operations. keep me informed.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 15, 2013

During the second quarter 2013, bank branches generated a relatively low 2.04% total revenue as a percent of average deposits. On the surface, this looks good for a branch that might cost $600 thousand per year in operating expenses. Fellow blogger Jim Marous asked me what I thought were hot stove issues for banking in 2014.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

According to Bloomberg , Apple and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have “announced a partnership that includes an Apple Music playlist featuring independent artists from an emerging label. However, the tech firm has published other App Store data each January since 2013.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

According to Bloomberg , Apple and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have “announced a partnership that includes an Apple Music playlist featuring independent artists from an emerging label. However, the tech firm has published other App Store data each January since 2013.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 6, 2013

Whether you are a bank, thrift, or credit union, I hope you have a strategy for 2013 and at least three to five years into your future. Goal/What success looks like : Achieve a 15% market share for operating accounts in the professional/technical NAICS category in our markets by year-end 2014. within our markets.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

For comparison purposes, here are last year''s top five , as measured as of December, 2013: #1. Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. So, as a branchless bank, BofI has leveraged its significantly lower operating expenses into profit.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Americans are waking up slightly groggier this morning as we as a nation continue to adjust to Daylight Savings Time. According to the Brookings Institution, DST causes the nations robbery rate to drop by about 7 percent on average — and by about 27 percent during the evening hours. So what did we learn this week?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

The card may take years to reach our threshold for materiality, or above $1 billion in operating profit,” noted the report. Early Warning, the network operator of Zelle, also said that in the second quarter of 2019, “$44 billion was sent through the Zelle network on 171 million transactions.”. More than 64 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Against this backdrop, mobile ID and national ID numbers represent effective, and low-cost, ways of moving beyond cultural issues that might be impediments to financial inclusion. Mobile and national IDs provide unique digital identifications that can solve many issues for the unbanked, the socially excluded and the rural poor,” said Grobler.

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