X gains money transmitter approval in Utah
Payments Dive
JANUARY 17, 2024
X has been collecting money transmitter approvals in recent months to launch peer-to-peer payments in the app.
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Payments Dive
JANUARY 17, 2024
X has been collecting money transmitter approvals in recent months to launch peer-to-peer payments in the app.
PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2020
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). The headquarters will be in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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PYMNTS
MAY 7, 2020
The Utah Jazz is providing reimbursement and credit choices to season ticket holders for the 10 home games left to be played for the 2019-20 regular season, Deseret reported. An e-mail from the Jazz said per the report, “With the postponement of games since March, our intent has been to honor your season tickets when the games resumed.”
Bank Innovation
JUNE 30, 2017
That’s more of a challenge, according to this Utah County couple who tried paying for life’s necessities only in bitcoin. Investing in bitcoin is easy. Buying a tank of gas with bitcoin…uh.
BankInovation
JULY 17, 2020
Fintechs looking to expand beyond their Bay Area or New York City headquarters have welcomed an unlikely visitor in recent years: Utah Gov. The governor is a great salesperson,” said Val Hale, executive director for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Gary Herbert. “The
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 4, 2020
Former CFPB Senior Counsel for Enforcement Strategy Chris Peterson, who is currently a Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, has announced his candidacy for Utah Governor. Chris also currently serves as the Financial Services Director and Senior Fellow of the Consumer Federation of America.
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 8, 2022
Following the lead of California, Colorado, and Virginia, Utah is set to become the fourth state to pass a comprehensive privacy law. As of March 4, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act ( SB 227 ) cleared both houses of the Utah legislature. If signed, the law will go into effect December 31, 2023.
CFPB Monitor
JANUARY 9, 2020
The CFPB and Utah AG’s Office have announced that they will hold the first joint office hours as part of the American Consumer Financial Innovation Network (ACFIN). The joint office hours will be held on January 30, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In addition to Texas, states involved in the suit include Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah, WSJ reported. “This internet Goliath used its power to manipulate the market, destroy competition, and harm YOU, the consumer,” Paxton's office said in a tweet Wednesday (Dec.
CFPB Monitor
AUGUST 17, 2021
A Utah federal district court recently ruled in two cases that the Petition Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. In both cases, the defendants had initially filed lawsuits in Utah state court to collect the underlying debts. Constitution provides immunity to debt collectors from FDCPA claims. The two cases are Holmes v.
CFPB Monitor
APRIL 25, 2022
Utah and Virginia recently became the first two states to require the registration of providers of merchant cash advances. The new laws also include disclosure requirements. Although laws requiring disclosures for merchant cash advances already exist in California and New York , those laws have not yet become effective.).
PYMNTS
JULY 26, 2019
FDIC) and the state of Utah for an industrial loan company (ILC) charter. The bank would be headquartered in Utah and could handle users’ deposits, according to Lee Carter, Rakuten head of banking and potential ILC CEO. Rakuten has about 13 million active users who earn rewards for purchasing products from participating merchants. .
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Turkish prosecutors have issued a detention warrant for Turkish businessman Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, who has ties to Utah business executives who recently pleaded guilty to a $511 million tax credit scheme in the U.S., In Utah, Korkmaz worked with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, brothers and executives of a Salt Lake City-based biodiesel company.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Square's offering, by contrast, will be an industrial-loan company, supervised by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The nature of the market for FinTech startups breaking into the larger U.S.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
Associated Food Stores , a Salt Lake City, Utah-based cooperative that supplies supermarkets, said it has started to build what it’s calling “pandemic pallets” of sanitizing products so its warehouses will be fully stocked, Darin Peirce, vice president of Retail Operations, told WSJ. That’s earlier than we ever have.”.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Founded in 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Acima operates in over 15,000 retail partner locations and eCommerce platforms. The deal is $1.273 billion in cash and approximately 10.8 million shares of Rent-A-Center common stock currently valued at $377 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2021. . billion in 2020.
CFPB Monitor
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Thereafter, “using its existing lending operations and personnel, LoanMart commenced ‘marketing’ and ‘servicing’ auto title loans purportedly made by CCBank, a small Utah-chartered bank operating out of Provo, Utah.” The DOB indicated that such loans have interest rates greater than 90 percent.
PYMNTS
JULY 19, 2020
Utah officials estimate that new vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, technology could reduce the severity of traffic crashes by 80 percent, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. Motor vehicle crashes claimed the lives of around 36,120 people in 2019, WSJ reported, and the V2X technology has been touted as a possibility for reducing that number.
CFPB Monitor
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
A Utah federal district court has rejected the attemp t of The Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) to invalidate a civil investigative demand (CID) issued by the CFPB based on a challenge to the constitutionality of the CFPB’s funding mechanism. .
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 29, 2023
The CFPB has issued a determination that the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) does not preempt the commercial financing laws of New York , California , Utah, and Virginia. The determination will be effective on the date it is published in the Federal Register.
PYMNTS
MAY 19, 2020
The FTC alleged the Utah-based company operated deceptive trial memberships and bogus government grant and money-making schemes in 2010. A federal jury in Utah convicted Johnson and Ryan Riddle of making false statements to a bank on multiple I Works merchant account applications.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 7, 2021
Utah startup WeLink has raised $185 million to roll out its 5G fixed-wireless broadband network in new markets across the United States, the company announced in a Thursday (Jan. 7) press release.
Perficient
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Activities included biking down Lakeshore Drive, walking in the Chicago suburbs, running in Utah, and hiking in the Smoky Mountains – to name a few! Over the course of six days, nineteen participants took part in 134 activities and covered a total of 604.56 miles in the Perficient Virtual Fitness Challenge.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 14, 2020
Initially, the loans are available in the following states via the waitlist: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Nebraska, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
PYMNTS
MARCH 11, 2020
OppLoans, for example, partners with a Utah bank and charges an average of 199 percent, according to its website. Utah has no caps on interest rates. “A OppLoans and its Utah partner FinWise Bank have a rent-a-bank partnership that gives it the freedom to avoid caps in numerous states.
PYMNTS
JUNE 24, 2020
At the news conference, Cuomo called out several states with surging infection rates whose residents would be included in the quarantine should they travel to the Tri-State area, including Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The states involved include Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah, according to Reuters. The group is sometimes referred to as the Colorado/Nebraska group and has said it could combine its case with the larger one from the The Department of Justice (DOJ).
CFPB Monitor
DECEMBER 9, 2022
In a notice of “ Intent to Make Preemption Determination under the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z) ,” the CFPB announced that it is seeking comments on its preliminary determinations that the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) does not.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 10, 2019
For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. Sources told Yahoo! that the company is visiting sites of now defunct retail spaces.
American Banker
JUNE 14, 2021
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CFPB Monitor
JULY 19, 2022
Represented by a team of Ballard Spahr attorneys, a seller of consumer products recently defeated the plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class in their lawsuit filed in Utah federal district court alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by the seller and another defendant.
PYMNTS
APRIL 22, 2020
CNBC reported the forgivable government loan comes months after the 38-year-old billionaire bought a 2,600-acre ranch in Utah for $32.5 Securities and Exchange Commission filings showed Nikola received the PPP funds from JPMorgan Chase. At the time, Milton said buying property is just the beginning. “I
PYMNTS
APRIL 10, 2020
billion despite buying startups and building call centers in Utah and Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. Last fall, PYMNTS reported that Marcus, launched in 2016, lost $1.3
PYMNTS
JANUARY 6, 2021
Divvy, based in Utah, offers businesses an integrated spend management platform connected with a corporate card offering. In a statement, Neat CEO David Rosa said the card "gives SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] the flexibility and control they need over their spending.". Divvy Lands $165 Million For Spend Management Tech.
American Banker
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
First Electronic Bank is using technology from Spring Labs to analyze its fintech partners' customer communications and identify problems.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 14, 2021
Google is also being investigated by attorneys general from several states, including California, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. The tech giant is also being probed by China.
Payments Source
JULY 3, 2019
Utah this week became the third state to let companies test cutting-edge financial products without fear of violating licensing and other regulations.
Jeff For Banks
MARCH 15, 2014
This week I did my annual tour of the West, teaching Bank Profitability in the Executive Development Program for the Washington, Oregon, and Utah Bankers'' Associations. Special thanks to the talented bankers in Washington, Oregon, and Utah. As part of the day-long curriculum, we discuss industry trends.
American Banker
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Gavin Newsom's proposal to create a consumer watchdog modeled after the CFPB includes a provision that would make it easier for upstart financial firms to obtain industrial loan charters.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
The 10 areas with the highest concentrations of middle class adults are located in the Midwest or the Northeast, with the exception of Ogden-Clearfield, Utah. But for many in the United States, middle class status varies on where you live.
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