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Jack Dorsey's digital payment company Block said it will be using its own bitcoin reserves to provide liquidity to bitcoin's Lightning Network, a protocol meant to make transactions on the blockchain more efficient.
March 2
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New research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau indicates consumers relying on BNPL loans are much more likely to use payday and pawn loans, revolve credit card balances and overdraw their bank accounts.
March 2
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The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco confirmed Thursday night that Silvergate Bank has "fully repaid" the $4.3 billion it was lent in advances late last year. The bank had said in a regulatory filing that repaying the advances "could result in ... the bank being less than well-capitalized."
March 2
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Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said that the bill would address some concerns from various regulators, but will steer clear of addressing access to Federal Reserve master accounts.
March 2
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors ordered FMB Bancshares to implement significant management changes and capital restructurings in 2009.
March 2
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Clear Street is bringing on a market maker as a strategic investor as it expands its product set.
March 2
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The specter of an economic downturn looms, but many companies are still in growth mode, according to Donald McCree, head of commercial banking at the Rhode Island bank. "We continue to hear from a lot of companies that they are doing quite well," he said.
March 2
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Troy Vosseller is the Co-Founder of gener8tor–a Midwest-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator network. Since 2012, gener8tor has worked with more than 1,000 startups that have cumulatively raised more than $1.4B in follow-on venture capital. Troy came to gener8tor from the University of Wisconsin Law School's Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, a program providing free legal services to startup businesses and entrepreneurs, where he worked as an Assistant Clinical Professor/Supervising Attorney. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Troy founded the most cliché student startup imaginable–a t-shirt company. It was a success, and today Sconnie Nation continues to market a line of apparel that focuses on celebrating the Wisconsin lifestyle.
Before discovering his love of startups, Troy held brief stints at Qualcomm and Intuit. He holds a BA, MBA and JD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.March 2
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The increase reflects the rise in the 10-year Treasury yield, which is back above 4% for the first time since that month.
March 2
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The banks that own Zelle face long odds in displacing Apple Pay and Google Pay, but the effort could help build the infrastructure for a new account-to-account payment system, some experts say.
March 2
