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CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior

CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
CFPB Charges Student Loan Debt Relief Firms With Unlawful Behavior
January 10, 2020  |  CFPB

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed lawsuits against several companies offering to forgive student loan debt for allegedly obtaining peoples’ data illegally, charging...

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Bitcoin Daily: Deribit Crypto Exchange Flees Netherlands’ Tight Regulation; Illinois Now Recognizes Blockchain Contracts As Legally Binding
Bitcoin Daily: Deribit Crypto Exchange Flees Netherlands’ Tight Regulation; Illinois Now Recognizes Blockchain Contracts As...
January 10, 2020  |  Bitcoin

Deribit, a popular global cryptocurrency options exchange, is moving to Panama in February to sidestep the Netherlands’ upcoming regulation changes on the industry, according to...

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Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
January 10, 2020  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is excited about augmented reality tech, which he thinks can address a number of social problems. Get the Full Story Complete...

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UK Startup Earnt It Wants To Update Payroll Advances
UK Startup Earnt It Wants To Update Payroll Advances
January 10, 2020  |  B2B Payments

U.K. payroll startup Earnt It wants to help the “millions of people in the U.K. who often resort to overdrafts, credit cards and payday loans...

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Visa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
Visa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
January 10, 2020  |  VISA

It wasn’t long ago that the measure of a car or truck revolved around such things as the punch and pull of the engine, the...

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This Week In Payments: Feeding The Hunger For Innovation, Sometimes Literally
This Week In Payments: Feeding The Hunger For Innovation, Sometimes Literally
January 10, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining...

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Fiserv: Why Gas Is Just The Start Of What Alexa Will Pay For
Fiserv: Why Gas Is Just The Start Of What Alexa Will Pay For
January 10, 2020  |  Voice Activation

While there were many attention-grabbing announcements coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), among the more eye-opening was the joint announcement by ExxonMobil,...

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How Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
How Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
January 10, 2020  |  Retail

Serving the needs of Americas millions of micro-merchants and mom-and-pop shops is one of those business plans that always sounds much easier in theory than...

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