CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A Georgia federal district court has entered a temporary restraining order against a Georgia-based debt collection operation in response to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission. In addition to the FTC’s actions, Operation Corrupt Collector includes two cases filed by the CFPB, three criminal cases brought by the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The company, according to Co-Founder Jiajun Zhu , is based around the idea of improving peoples' lives through various kinds of robotic inventions, including their first one, a self-driving vehicle operating electronically to deliver goods to people.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Also, the Mersho Brothers, who operate Shoe Palace, have been issued equity in Genesis so that they will have 20 percent ownership of the enlarged group in the U.S. The chain currently has 167 retail locations, most of them operating under the Shoe Palace flag. California-based Shoe Palace was started in 1993 by the Mersho family.

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MAY 9, 2018

As restaurant operators seek to bolster sales in the face of weak traffic growth, Yum! Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The restaurant chain had begun testing the service in Phoenix back in December, Reuters reported. have liquor licenses.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In 1989, Mr. Guzmán’s brother, Arturo, was stopped as he was driving across the Arizona border carrying more than $1.2 According to an account of the trial in The Wall Street Journal , “The drug money often came back to Mexico in cars. million in cash.”

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The service is starting in Arizona, where users can call 1-833-USE-UBER to speak with a live representative. The telephone operator service has previously been tested in India , Egypt, Ukraine and Mexico. Uber is launching a new telephone booking service aimed at older consumers in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The company – and its gold trading app – just expanded its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to operate in Alabama. The future is looking a bit more golden for CORO Global. The Alabama Securities Commission on Tuesday (Nov. App users can trade in U.S.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Beginning in July 2017, additional Fabletics locations will open in Scottsdale, Arizona; Cerritos, San Jose, San Francisco and San Diego, California and Paramus, New Jersey. Less is more,” Dustin Netral, SVP of operations for Fabletics, said in a press release.

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APRIL 24, 2020

The problem is that cannabis companies in states where the plant is legal are ‘essential workers’ during the pandemic, able to operate even despite the widespread lockdowns. Cannabis firms were deemed essential in 8 of the 11 states where adult use is legalized.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

“Staff and customers’ safety is our first priority and we have comprehensive, precautious measures being implemented to all restaurant operations and office staff.”. Despite the slowing economy that had Chinese officials hoping people would spend, the government is now advising residents to stay home as the deadly virus spreads.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

ATM portfolio management tools and services firm Payment Alliance International (PAI) has acquired Arizona-based ATM operator Eclipse Cash Systems for an undisclosed sum. The entire Eclipse team will join PAI and continue to work out of the Chandler, Arizona, office. PAI has had a busy summer.

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JULY 2, 2020

The interest among established buyers in growing food delivery operations is far more than a U.S. regulators recently approved Amazon’s $575 million purchase of a 16 percent stake in Deliveroo, a London-based food delivery business that operates in both England and Australia. phenomenon.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

In Arizona, low-cost supermarket chain ALDI will bring two new stores to the Phoenix area. We’re thrilled to continue expanding in the Southwest, and we take great pride in reaching this milestone as we open our first Arizona stores,” Aldi Group Director of Operations and Logistics Tom Cindel said in a statement, as per AZ Central.

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MAY 29, 2019

This was an issue that created controversy when Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich recently allowed the startup to operate in Arizona, despite the fact that its products effectively charge an APR in excess of the 36 percent at which Arizona state law caps interest rates.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 24, 2024

If you bank in a fast-growing state such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Texas, Florida, or South Carolina, population and business formation growth result in lower acquisition costs. New acquisition, sales, marketing, support and management costs drive up the operating cost overtime further hurting profit.

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MARCH 7, 2020

Well, except for the good people of Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, the U.S. Their clocks will stay exactly the same – and Arizona will go from being in the Mountain Time Zone to being in the Pacific Time Zone. Thus far, only Arizona and Hawaii have bowed out. local time.

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MARCH 14, 2019

“We’ve seen firsthand in Arizona how enthusiastic customers are about getting their Kroger groceries delivered by a Nuro self-driving vehicle ,” said Nuro Co-founder Dave Ferguson in the press release. We operate 102 stores in Houston , an energetic market that embraces digital and technology advancement.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Meanwhile, in Arizona, low-cost supermarket chain ALDI has plans to add two new stores to the Phoenix area in early November. We’re thrilled to continue expanding in the Southwest, and we take great pride in reaching this milestone as we open our first Arizona stores,” Aldi Group Director of Operations and Logistics Tom Cindel noted.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Kroger and Nuro have operated a self-driving grocery delivery service in Scottsdale, Arizona, servicing a single ZIP code with an autonomous vehicle fleet since August. The firms said the service will be available through two Houston Kroger locations and reach shoppers who live in four local ZIP codes.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

6) that it is launching a taxi-hailing app in Nagoya as it aims to expand in a country where its services aren’t in operation. According to a report in Reuters , citing Uber, the service will be for taxis operating in Nagoya, which is near the Toyota Motors headquarters.

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JULY 21, 2020

ALDI said it keeps planning “aggressive growth” and will come into Arizona later in 2020 with four new locations in the greater vicinity of Phoenix. As it stands, the company operates 180 retail locations in Florida as well as Alabama.

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JULY 7, 2020

Several states such as Texas, Florida and Arizona have been hit particularly hard and have shattered new case records multiple times in the past few weeks. Fertitta said he thinks what is needed is a federally mandated capacity level detailing to what extent businesses can operate for the rest of the year, CNBC reported.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

BevMo boasts an operation in 161 neighborhood stores in California, Arizona and Washington, which goPuff plans to use to integrate its micro-fulfillment centers. The blog post touted BevMo's loyal customer base and said the company has a "deep infrastructure" and "iconic brand" to match goPuff's tech-driven system.

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ATM Marketplace

JULY 18, 2019

LibertyX, a company that makes software that enables regular ATMs to dispense bitcoin, has partnered with independent ATM operator Desert ATM to add 90 machines to its network in Arizona and Nevada.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Apple closed shops again in North Carolina, Florida, Arizona and South Carolina last week for like rationale, and has reportedly re-shuttered a total of 18 retail locations across the U.S. “We It is reportedly keeping an eye on the virus situation throughout different regions to ensure that it is safe to operate its stores.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Arizona-based FI consulting firm Cornerstone Advisors noted that just three major banks have 47 percent of the accounting and payment services sector’s $11 billion.”. They must confront one major obstacle in doing so, however: big banks.

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MAY 28, 2019

A company in Silicon Valley, Nuro , is also in the autonomous vehicle game and has raised almost $1 billion in 2019, and has begun a driverless grocery delivery program in Arizona. The vans are operational in the new Xiongan economic zone southwest of Beijing and in small areas of the capital as well as Changzhou. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 26, 2018

The idea is not wholly unprecedented — Carvana operates similar car vending machines across the U.S. It may sound like a silly feature, but it’s one customers actually like — as it apparently makes working with the Arizona-based startup a bit more memorable.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The states leading the probe include Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. Google is also facing a Chinese antitrust probe into whether Google took advantage of its hold over the Android mobile operating system in order to stifle competition. 15) blog. .

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

In an effort to tackle grocery delivery, Kroger announced that it has begun to use autonomous vehicles in Arizona. The grocer along with Nuro had been using a fleet of Prius cars with operators. Kroger President of Pharmacy Colleen Lindholz said, “Kroger operates nearly 2,200 pharmacies, serving millions of customers across America.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

As they are busy managing jobs, soccer practice, dance lessons and social schedules we are on a mission to do more than keep a little extra money in their pockets,” Tom Ward, senior vice president of Digital Operations, Walmart U.S., said in a press release.

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APRIL 23, 2019

Waymo’s CEO John Krafcik said the company was teaming up with American Axle & Manufacturing to redo a Detroit factory, with the aim of it being operational by the middle of 2019. Waymo already has a robotaxi fleet in Arizona consisting of retrofitted Chrysler Pacifica minivans, with plans to expand the program.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scottsdale Community Bank is the first new community bank in Arizona in 14 years, and it already has the capacity to make more than $100 million in loans. The technology it uses allows it to maximize efficiency while minimizing costs in its operations. The $28 million-asset community bank in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Analysts at Jefferies have also identified additional licenses for operations in Washington, New Mexico and Indiana, which could signal bigger plans for Amazon as well.

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MAY 3, 2020

The system could possibly monetize every single social media post on a given network for operators as well as content creators. The program will likely make use of Voice, Block.one’s own social media network, which Block.one invested millions of dollars into last month so it could operate independently of Block.one.

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JULY 2, 2020

Their reclosures reportedly are a negative barometer of the ease with which retail operations are able to resume throughout the country. Apple had previously reclosed shops in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina for similar reasons. Apple locations are usually located in highly trafficked malls and shopping centers.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

These efforts are grouped inside the unit known as “Other Bets,” which had an operating loss of $3.4 billion operating income reported by Google. Since the new operating structure took shape in 2015, the “ bets segment ” has lost a cumulative $10 billion. billion through the past year. That comes as a drag against the $36.5

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