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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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APRIL 21, 2019

At the annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Khalil Sediq, governor at the Central Bank of Afghanistan, told The Asia Times that Afghanistan might issue a sovereign crypto bond that uses blockchain technology. The goal is to raise $5.8

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MAY 3, 2018

Hermyz took the grand prize and the $10,000 that came with it at last weekend’s Small Business Hackathon, an inaugural event that took place in Washington, D.C., The event capped off National Small Business Week. The team that created DataBridge was led by a small business owner from Washington, D.C., government.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. The bank is one of several newly proposed community banks in the region, with goals of disrupting the financial services landscape, including business and corporate banking.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said that its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) is down for the second consecutive month, dropping 1.1 The housing market is still hot, but we may be starting to see rising home prices hurting affordability.". million members involved in all aspects of the real estate market.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The United Nations said in January that it had evidence of bin Salman’s involvement in that plot, which Saudi Arabia called “absurd,” according to Reuters. Bezos owns The Washington Post, whose journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was murdered in October 2018.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

“Companies and investment firms with a member of our management team in an executive, partner or board role have completed over 100 merger and acquisition, capital markets and private investing transactions since 2010.”. In August, Ruby Tuesday Founder Sandy Beall and Doug Jacob, co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based

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AUGUST 5, 2020

million jobs, according to the ADP National Employment Report released on Wednesday (Aug 5). million, the nation’s jobs market has a long way to go before it recovers from the damage inflicted by COVID-19 in March and April. ADP found that while June’s payroll was revised upward to 4.3

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The remarks were made at a conference, focusing on the issue of “financial deserts,” involving the struggle for rural communities to feel the benefits of overall national economic strength and a declining unemployment rate. making it one of the nation’s first new community banks in years.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

unemployment rate, even as the nation engages in its annual celebration of workers. And in the case of a labor market that’s gone topsy-turvy in recent months, that silver lining is the raw creativity of America’s workforce in finding work, even when traditional jobs are hard to come by. In fact, many U.S. Why is this?

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

In only one recent example, as reported by Washington City Paper , the District of Columbia passed legislation that would cap commissions at 15 percent, where it had been 30 percent — at least for the duration of the public health emergency. Adding Some Fees .

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The spate of bankruptcies also presents two ancillary issues: One: Why haven’t retailers been helped by the various stimulus packages coming out of Washington? Their debt is too distressed to qualify for the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility aimed at larger companies.”. The first issue has caught department stores head on.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Just last week, the company announced the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service that provides customers with broadened delivery and/or pickup options, enabling them to order via Instacart and pick up the groceries at retailers. At that time, the company had a valuation of $4.35

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The bitcoin market cap was over $18.5 Louis, Missouri, the company’s first foray into the Midwestern market. Locations on the radar for new Coinsource ATMs in 2017, according to Sharp, included in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., On Thursday (Feb. percent over Wednesday’s close. Founded in Feb.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2017

They may have gotten a modern update or two – some have undergone several – but their central appeal is the same, and their markets remain avid. The original STEM toy, and part of the first class of toys inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame (yes, that exists), has actually been around for over 100 years. Some favorites ….

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 28, 2016

CFPB has issued its July 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about credit cards and complaints from consumers in Washington and the Seattle metro area. General findings include the following: As of July 1, 2016, the CFPB handled approximately 930,700 complaints nationally, including approximately 24,500 complaints in June 2016.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Less than a month ago, the outbreak of a new virus in the city of Wuhan centered on a cluster of consumers who had been exposed to live animals at a local food market. As of the third week of this month, it has grown to 300 cases spread across five nations, including China, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and (as of this week) the U.S.

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JUNE 1, 2017

At the 2017 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, Cicely Simpson, the organization’s executive vice president of government affairs and policy, and the Texas Restaurant Association’s vice president of marketing and innovation, Anna Tauzin, discussed the digitalization of the restaurant industry and its effect on delivery.

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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. . Colorado, Idaho, Maryland, Wyoming and Washington, D.C.,

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Reports in the Financial Times earlier this week revealed that investors are advising startups to hold on to cash and gather reserves to remain stable amid any market uncertainties. With on-demand services like Airbnb landing a greater share of the business travel market, other players looking to compete are coming in fast.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

In October, the IMF , which is based in Washington, predicted that the global growth rate of the economy would be 3 percent last year and 3.4 While some tariffs remain in place, the market views it as a step forward. percent this year. . That’s no longer the case. It is now revising those numbers to 2.9 percent for 2019 and 3.3

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American Banker

JANUARY 25, 2021

Truist, First National Bank of Omaha and Peoples Bank in Washington state are finding creative ways for loan officers, financial advisers and others to become ambassadors on platforms including Facebook and Instagram.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Harrilchak sees LocalBrews as “helping brewers distinguish themselves among a crowded market” to highlight the differences between breweries. The Alcohol Delivery Market. Shoppers in 14 states along with Washington, D.C. The last time he checked, he found there were 383 brewers in Colorado and many more trying to get licensing.

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JANUARY 5, 2020

” It has applied as common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. According to the filing , One Medical has nine locations — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Investments in One Medical were led by the Carlyle Group, which owns 26.8

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Some of the nation’s biggest food producers are facing a whopping $14 million lawsuit that alleges an “elaborate scheme” to secretly fund an initiative to kill a food labeling law. The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) stands accused by Washington AG Bob Ferguson of illegally hiding the names of its donors.

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MAY 21, 2021

Deepti Dhar’s Bright Paths Project: Welcome to Stock Market. Deepti graduated with a Bachelor’s degree and diploma in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing and worked as a Relationship Banker and as a Marketing Coordinator for the banking industry. Bright Paths Project: Welcome to Stock Market.

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JUNE 23, 2018

National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. The founding hero of National Selfie Day — not that he receives his full recognition among the selfie masses — is a U.S. lamp manufacturer and early photography enthusiast named Robert Cornelius.

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JUNE 2, 2020

The forces closing in on retail have forced its various trade and advocacy groups to press their case in Washington. According to The Washington Post , even routine finance issues have become risky. While the AAFA is taking its concerns to the government, the National Retail Federation (NRF) has expressed cautious optimism.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

“The experience of the mall CMBS [commercial mortgage-backed security] from Starwood is certainly symptomatic of the larger narrative,” said Christopher Sullivan, chief investment officer of United Nations Federal Credit Union, as reported in Yahoo! But apparently they’re doing something right in Philadelphia.

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APRIL 18, 2017

The slowdown of China’s economic growth has had markets concerned, but new data suggests the nation could be on its way to reversing the trent. The nation is also in the midst of increasing corporate debt , reports said, with overall indebtedness nearing 300 percent. “The percent GDP annual growth rate.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

According to the National Weather Service, the wind chill brought the perceived air temperature down to the mid-30s. Several markets in Washington, D.C. have it shipped straight from El Salvador, while California-based Exotic Meat Markets imports iguana from Puerto Rico and distributes the meat skin-on, skinless and boneless.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Two government officials from European nations have advocated to have watchdogs engage in preventative measures against Big Tech to reduce their strength and handle on the market, according to reports. It is probable that size and market share will be determining factors in who lands on the “Big Tech hit list.”. Regulation.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Whether it's the power grid, banking and financial markets, transportation, communications or even the highly generalized “internet of things,” the list of digital inroads that penetrate our daily lives has never been higher. has at the very least focused the world’s awareness on this growing problem.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Identity Devices also formed a recent multi-year partnership with Fingerprint Cards (FPC) that aims to enhance the security of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem with biometrics, increasing the use of biometrics in IoT and financial technology markets. Deep Dive: Making National IDs Biometric-Friendly.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The National Football League (NFL) and pizza quick service restaurant (QSR) Papa John’s made news when they agreed to end their sponsorship agreement, but Pizza Hut has since signed up to be the league’s official pizza sponsor — and it’s reportedly paying more for it than Paper John’s did, according to the Washington Post.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

markets and facilitates bookings at around 900 restaurants nationwide. cities, including, of course, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as Washington, D.C. cities, including, of course, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as Washington, D.C. Everyone has a photo at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.,

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