Bankruptcy Blogs

Bitcoin is helping the pot business get over its banking problem

06/13/17

Cannabis companies are turning to the world's most popular digital currency in an effort to get rid of all that cash.

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Southside to add heft in east Texas with latest acquisition

06/13/17

The company will pay about $219 million for Diboll State Bancshares.

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Better isn’t good enough in improving global payments system

06/13/17

Payments professionals have done too little to leverage transformational changes in technology to improve the overall client experience.

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Treasury seeks balance; SoFi applies for bank charter

06/13/17

Steven Mnuchin says financial plan strikes the "right balance" between "burdensome" regulation and protecting taxpayers; online lender seeks Utah charter to take FDIC-guaranteed deposits and offer credit cards.

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Lendio to market loan platform to Comcast's small-business clients

06/13/17

The Utah company has similar arrangements with Staples, GoDaddy and LegalZoom.

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Fundbox opens its loan platform to more small businesses

06/13/17

Customers were previously required to provide access to their accounting software, but now they can connect a business bank account instead.

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An online loan in five minutes? This startup says it's possible

06/13/17

Dan O'Malley, who until very recently ran the fintech incubator at Eastern Bank (and before that was at Capital One), now has a startup called Numerated Growth Technologies and software that he says can process loans in five minutes.

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How I missed the point of bitcoin

06/12/17

The world needs faster and cheaper international payments, but more than that it needs censorship-resistant ways to transact.

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Cheat sheet: Treasury's extensive reg relief wishlist

06/12/17

The Treasury Department published its first report on regulatory reform, offering some familiar industry asks alongside some surprising positions.

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