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Category: RegTech
Public-Private Partnerships: Financial Crime Specialist Jim Richards Discusses Effective and Efficient Information Sharing under the USA PATRIOT Act
Thanks to my friend and financial crimes colleague Gina (Scialabba) Jurva of the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute for the article. […]
There Are No Drug Cartels in California, and 97% of WA Cannabis Businesses Have Checking Accounts … What We Learned in the House Hearing on Cannabis & Banking – Updated
The House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions held a hearing on February 13, 2019 titled “Challenges […]
Regulatory Lag & Drag – Are There FinTech Solutions?
The RegTech, SupTech, and FinTech communities are focused on developing new technologies to speed up, simplify, and streamline financial institutions’ […]
The Southwest Border(s) – Some Background to Inform the Debate
To understand the current broo-haha about “The Wall”, you need to understand two things. First, a bit about the Mexico […]
Here is Cannabis, Where is Congress? Without Laws, Regulations, and Clear Guidance, the Financial Sector Is Rightfully Reluctant to Bank Cannabis Businesses
On September 12, 2018 I posted an article titled “Cannabis, Congress, and Courage – Why Banks are not Banking Marijuana […]
The National Hockey League is considering a major rule change for the 2019-2020 season – one player from each team will be required to call penalties on his own team!
The size of an NHL ice surface – 200 feet by 85 feet – hasn’t changed in 100 years. Yet […]
Managing Through Change – How to Survive and Succeed
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – General Eric Shinseki “New ideas pass through […]
Managing Meetings – How to Increase Your Effective Staffing Level by 25% … Without Adding Any Staff!
How many of us dread those needless conference calls where the first ten minutes are spent re-capping what was just […]
California Chaos – Not Only do California’s Cannabis Regulations Make Banking Cannabis Businesses Almost Impossible, They Squandered a Perfect Opportunity to Embrace Regulatory Innovation
There is a big push in the FinTech/RegTech (SupTech) space to digitize regulations. One of the biggest hurdles to doing […]