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Virginia-based bank provides Bitcoin access at ATMs

Payments Dive

Virginia-based Blue Ridge Bank is partnering with ATM operator BluePoint ATM Solutions and Bitcoin ATM software provider LibertyX to facilitate access to the cryptocurrency. This announcement comes as banks and regulators appear to be warming to digital assets, and as Bitcoin continues to gain value and attention.

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Virginia Man Pleads Guilty To $2.5 Million PPP Swindle

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A Leesburg, Virginia, man pleaded guilty to a federal bank fraud charge that he stole $2.5 District Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia stated in the release. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, in the release. Department of Justice announced in a press release.

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Podcast: Rebuilding ‘the great Virginia regional bank’

ABA Community Banking

John Asbury didn't need a new job in 2016, but when he saw an opportunity build something lost in the 1990s, what he calls "the great Virginia regional bank," he took it. The post Podcast: Rebuilding ‘the great Virginia regional bank’ appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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West Virginia treasurer warns new banks of ESG-based blacklisting

American Banker

Six financial institutions may be placed on West Virginia's restricted list if they are found "boycott" the fossil fuel industry, Riley Moore said.

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M&A News: TowneBank expands in Virginia

ABA Community Banking

TowneBank in Suffolk, Virginia, has agreed to buy Farmers Bankshares in Windsor, Virginia. The post M&A News: TowneBank expands in Virginia appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. billion-asset TowneBank said in a press release Thursday that it will pay $56 million in stock for the $609 million-asset Farmers.

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W Virginia Withholds Payment To Tax Delinquent Vendors

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The West Virginia State Auditor’ s office has announced a new tax program aimed at vendors who owe the state money. The vendor will not be able to resume business in West Virginia until it has corrected its delinquency. The program will prevent vendors who owe the state money from being payed.

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Utah and Virginia enact registration and disclosure requirements for providers of merchant cash advances

CFPB Monitor

Utah and Virginia recently became the first two states to require the registration of providers of merchant cash advances. A recipient” is a person with a principal place of business in Virginia that applies for sales-based based financing and receives a “specific offer” of sales-based financing from a provider.

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