American Banker

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Voters in Florida and North Dakota approved medical marijuana measures on Tuesday, while their counterparts in California and Massachusetts approved recreational pot initiatives, according to projections.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Reuters reported news on Tuesday that banking regulators from seven states across the United States are working to, as the newswire reported, “streamline” the FinTech reporting process, with an eye on those tech firms having an easier road toward offering their products and services across the nation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2019

Elliptic collaborated with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the data set, which was taken from 200,000 bitcoin transactions worth $6 billion — the largest set of labeled transaction data publicly available in any digital currency in the world. “On

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

But in May, authorities in Namibia called Karatbar a pyramid scheme, while last month, Florida’s financial regulator denied that the company had been issued a banking license. Website DECPAPI.com spotlighted an API with a countdown that showed the national stablecoin would launch on November 20. And the U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 7, 2020

Mr. Roddy discussed the emergency debt collection regulation issued by the Massachusetts AG and the possibility of state UDAP claims based on collection activities during the crisis.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Tight regulations around the legal marijuana industry are barring non-wealthy entrepreneurs from entering the market, according to reports from Forbes on Wednesday (June 13). Reports also highlighted the successful and wealthy back stories of some of the nation’s current leading marijuana businesses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Said Allaire of the bid to get digital currencies more front and center: “Regulators are getting their arms around them … the digital asset market is now moving, more and more, into the mainstream of finance, FinTech payments and banking world.”. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 4, 2021

A magistrate judge has denied the CFPB’s motion for partial dismissal of the lawsuit filed in a Massachusetts federal district court challenging the creation of the CFPB’s Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

In June 2020, the National Association of Consumer Advocates, U.S. Declare that the Bureau violated FACA and its implementing regulations when it created and administered the Taskforce.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Locations on the radar for new Coinsource ATMs in 2017, according to Sharp, included in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Earlier this month, the BSP published guidelines for entities that offer exchange services, including a registration requirement with both BSP and the nation’s anti-money laundering organization.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 25, 2020

The FDIC’s rule purports to regulate activities of non-banks which are beyond the FDIC’s jurisdiction. We commented that the AGs’ similar attempt to dismiss Madden’s pricing impact on national banks and federal savings associations didn’t hold water and the same holds true with regard to Madden’s impact on FDIC-insured state banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

As noted in this space by Karen Webster, the ban on the ban – where, now, in New York, surcharges are allowed when merchants post total prices for transactions – shows the inefficiencies of regulation that supersede card networks’ own rules governing merchant activities.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 20, 2020

The CFPB has filed a motion seeking the partial dismissal of the lawsuit filed in Massachusetts federal district court by the National Association of Consumer Advocates, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Professor Kathleen Engel challenging the CFPB’s creation of its Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in Massachusetts federal district court challenging the CFPB’s creation of its Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law have filed their opposition to the CFPB’s motion seeking the lawsuit’s partial dismissal. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Santander is a national bank based in Wilmington, Delaware, and operates a network of close to 700 retail branch offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio. Many banks will park this liquidity in cash or short-term securities in an attempt to get ahead of higher required capital ratios that are likely forthcoming from regulators.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Taskforce was charged with examining the existing legal and regulatory environment for consumers and financial services providers and making recommendations to the Bureau’s leadership for improving consumer financial laws and regulations. The report consists of two volumes. Equal access to credit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

“Being in Boston, Massachusetts, I’m much less likely to invest in a restaurant in Oklahoma if the same business was right next to me,” Mathews said. In this effort, the platform is turning to regional and national economic development organizations to promote education on both sides.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 23, 2022

National banks and federal thrifts are supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and state-chartered banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System are supervised by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). Overdraft and NSF fees also continue to be a focus of state regulators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey all have ABC tests codified into law that are similar to California’s, but Uber and Lyft drivers remain classified as independent contractors in those states. That the law has been passed, for example, doesn’t answer how comprehensively the law will be enforced.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Voters in Florida, North Dakota, Montana and Arkansas approved medical marijuana measures on Tuesday, while their counterparts in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot initiatives.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2020

The pilot in Tampa is not unique: In Cincinnati, Atlanta, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and Connecticut, local governments are trying out arrangements to allow restaurants to reclaim space not normally used for serving customers to make reopenings possible. The pilot is] a lifesaver for us.”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. Lifetime Achievement Award (Bank) Cambridge Savings CEO Wayne Patenaude looks to end a long and successful career at one of Massachusetts’ 10 largest banks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

As quoted in the National Law Review , the councilman, citing data from the FDIC that black and Hispanic households are more likely than their white counterparts to be underbanked or unbanked, has said that “the cashless marketplace sends an exclusionary message — that the impoverished, the homeless, the underbanked, the undocumented need not apply.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. The picture is so different to the traditional warehouse setting, where workers buzz about on forklifts stacking and picking and conforming to safety regulations and just-in-time processes.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Dorothy Savarese, the head of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank in Massachusetts, seeks a financial system where the rules encourage community banks and big banks to do the things that they are best at.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Digital identity in the last few years has gotten a major boost — as of 2018, 60 nations worldwide have embraced some version of a digital identity scheme. That is observable on a macro scale in India and China, where governments are working overtime to construct digital ID schemes for billions of people.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It seems to be the case, then, that stablecoins may be regulated to the point where they are an adjunct to fiat – and to the modern monetary system that has been in place for decades – rather than a wholesale replacement. Recently, a BIS study concluded that embedded regulation might offer a solution for stablecoins.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Business tax cuts: The corporate world had reason to cheer this week, when Trump’s pick for incoming treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, stated that the number one priority in terms of regulation is to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank. percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Plenty bad. Elizabeth Warren.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 19, 2012

It seems to me that reducing burdensome regulations and not implementing harsher capital requirements would be more effective alternatives to incentivize lending than pushing all yields toward zero while buying up all of our bonds. Maybe it is nationally, but Bucks County (PA) has yet to participate. in July and CoreLogic, +4.6%

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Regulation will be essential. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. We cannot regulate technology that we cannot predict. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Bitland has expanded to operate in 7 African nations, India, and is also working with Native Americans in the US. . The current process for mortgage approval for residential properties takes on average around 30-60 days to complete, according to the National Association of Realtors. Regulation. ShelterZoom’s platform.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Referencing the language in Regulation B and Regulation B Commentary regarding the “effects test,” the AGs argue in their letter that the regulations implementing the ECOA have continuously interpreted the statute as providing for disparate impact liability. to discriminate against any person.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

government is looking to find a way to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) so other countries can’t use the technology against it. David Edelman, a former adviser to president Barack Obama who leads research on technology and public policy issues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A new proposal shows that the U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. The company has also faced waves of negative press on sexual harassment and poor culture, in addition to deceiving authorities and ignoring autonomous testing regulations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

Tech companies want to get ahead of the law when it comes to facial recognition , seeking to restrict its use but also making sure the most severe regulations don’t come to pass, according to The Wall Street Journal. Numerous advocacy groups and leaders have called for bans. More than 60 college campuses have disavowed its use.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

And suddenly, with two separate regulators looking into the program and Senators calling round the clock to talk to them about it — Amazon decided this was not the perk for them. The deal’s end drew praise from Sen.

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