Initial Coin Offerings Likely Need to Follow Bank Secrecy Rules

Initial Coin Offerings Likely Need to Follow Bank Secrecy Rules

Issuers and investors in initial coin offerings for digital coins appear to have something else to worry about besides the increased scrutiny of U.S. regulators. All startups that accept digital or fiat currencies in exchange for their newly issued tokens are money transmitters, which must be in compliance with
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Citigroup moving toward 'national digital bank': CFO

Gerspach said the bank does not want to begin marketing a national digital bank to consumers until it is sure it can digitally open and service accounts over mobile phones and computers to the satisfaction of customers. The banking industry has been pruning branch networks as people increasingly use
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Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump Adviser After Dispute Over Tariffs

Gary Cohn is resigning as President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, leaving his post as the administration prepares to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum that Cohn has opposed. Gary Cohn. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. “It has been an honor to serve my country and enact
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What is rating of Stock?: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (ARI)

The principal of ATR is very similar to other volatility indicators: A high ATR value signals a possible trend change. A low ATR value correlates with a weaker trend movement. Why to Observe Volume of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (ARI)?. When a stock traded on high volume like here
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RBS Will Pay NY $500 Million Over Bogus Mortgage Marketing

The deal boosts the bank's U.S. settlement costs so far to $6 billion in less than a year for bundling dubious mortgages into top-rated securities and pitching them to investors in 2006 to 2008, before the housing bubble burst. In July, the lender agreed to pay $5.5 billion to the Federal Housing Finance
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Will it be a boom or bust year for Des Moines real estate?

She expects rents to remain flat or stay at the 1.5- to 2-percent growth rate. “We won't see the same kind of rent growth we've seen in the past few years,” she said. Overall, the Des Moines metro's commercial real estate market is firing on all cylinders — from multi-family, to retail, to office and industrial
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Massachusetts First-Time Home Buyer Programs of 2018

Offered by the Massachusetts Housing Partnership, this 30-year mortgage has a fixed, discounted interest rate and low down payment requirement, generally 3% of the purchase price. Unlike some other loans, One Mortgage doesn't require mortgage insurance just because you put less than 20% down,
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Citi's Rahul Shukla takes charge of corporate banking at HDFC

MUMBAI: Former Citibanker Rahul Shukla has joined HDFC Bank as head of the Mumbai based private sector bank's corporate banking division, four people aware of the move said. Shukla joined HDFC Bank after completing his three month gardening leave in Citibank on March 1, these people said.
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Twitter Is a Hotbed for Crypto Scams

Here's a quiz: which one of these Twitter accounts has received the extra layer of trust that comes from being a verified user? Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, or Chris Giancarlo, the head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission? If you said Giancarlo, sorry.
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Trump Doesn't Have a Best-and-Brightest Problem

Nunberg told the Post that he planned to tear up his subpoena on Bloomberg TV and would let Mueller “arrest me,” all of which misses the point a little bit. Nunberg and his lawyer are free to petition Mueller to narrow the scope of the subpoena. They can also seek to quash it. But if Nunberg simply
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US Large-Cap Banks Stock 2018 Outlook: Banking On Encouraging EPS Growth

Sustained loan growth, net interest margin expansion, positive operating leverage, benign asset quality, share repurchases should all help EPS growth accelerate. Banks are more cautious to lend riskier companies such as those in the energy and real estate sectors. Large-cap P/E valuations seem
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Plano office buildings sell to investment partners

The 1800 and 1820 Preston Park buildings have almost 200,000 square feet of space and are located near Park Boulevard and Ohio Drive. Libitzky Property Cos. and Sunwest Real Estate Group purchased the properties from Alexander & Baldwin. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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RBS to pay $500 million to NY tied to crisis-era mortgage security sales

Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday agreed to a $500 million settlement linked to charges that it sold faulty residential mortgage-backed securities to investors in the lead up to the financial crisis in 2007-08, according to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The settlement includes some
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Do Analysts Think You Should Buy – International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM)

WALL STREET: Markets rebounded from morning losses to post their best day in a week, highlighting the uncertainty surrounding Trump's tariffs plans and possible foreign reaction. Boeing Co., which makes the bulk of its sales outside the United States, fell 2.3 percent in the morning before rebounding
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DC bill would allow homeowners to sell houses without giving tenants first bite

But supporters say TOPA hurts the housing market. They contend homeowners aren't renting out rooms, basements or attached units because they fear the headaches associated with the law when they want to sell. Some homeowners trying to put their houses on the market said they were shaken down
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Azer Turk Bank changes approach to business lending

Azerbaijan's Azer Turk Bank expects growth of applications for business loans in 2018, Orkhan Huseynov, chairman of the bank's board, told Trend March 6. Such a trend is related to the development of entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan and the growth of confidence in the national currency, he said.
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Amazon ramps up Seattle growth target despite plans for HQ2

Amazon continues to gobble up real estate in Seattle for its more than 40,000 Amazon employees. … plans to grow its Seattle headquarters to almost 14 million square feet of office space, an addition of more than 2 million square feet from the last time the company updated its local real estate plans.
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Investors Title (ITIC) to Issue Quarterly Dividend of $0.40

Investors Title logo Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 6th, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 20th will be given a dividend of 0.40 per share by the insurance provider on Friday, March 30th. This represents a $1.60
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Egyptian Billionaire Eyes Further Pakistan Real Estate Projects

Pakistan's real estate sector has seen a boom in recent years as militant violence has receded. Economic growth in the nation of more than 200 million people has risen to around 5 percent as China finances more than $50 billion on infrastructure projects across the country. House prices have more
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Former payday lender CEO now wants to run the CFPB

NEW YORK – The former CEO of a payday lending company that had been under investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked to be considered for the top job at the watchdog agency, The Associated Press has learned. Such a request would have been extraordinary in the
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