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Barry Ritholtz

John Paulson on Frothy US Housing Market: This Time Is Different Unlike subprime era, financial system is not at risk, he says Real interest rates blamed for lackluster gold price. Sales Numbers Start Climb. The ultrawealthy are donating more than ever. That doesn’t mean the rest of us are giving less. ( Bloomberg ).

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Goldman Sachs Appoints New Global Digital Asset Leader

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In an interview, the London-based executive projected that a transition to an all-blockchain-based financial system, with all assets and liabilities native to that, could happen in “the next five to 10 years,” CNBC reported. “So

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OCC Tells Banks Not To Hide Under The Cover Of COVID

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The nation’s banks hoping to use COVID-19 as an excuse to shutter branches or get permanent concessions from regulators better think again, the Financial Times reported. Brian Brooks , Acting Comptroller of the Currency, an independent agency within the U.S. Brooks told U.S.

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OCC: Lockdowns Could Challenge Stability Of Banking System

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Brooks , Acting Comptroller of the Currency, said in a series of letters that some states’ long-term efforts to curb the coronavirus could lead to reduced real estate values and debt payments. The closures, Brooks said, were seemingly “indefinite” in some states, a press release from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said.

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Flywire: ‘I Wish For Embedded Payments To Become Ubiquitous In 2021’

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We already have good examples of embedded B2B finance to go by in manufacturing, technology and professional services: A limited number of firms are using embedded payments to streamline the international invoicing and AR processes with their customers. This simplifies a typically complex, costly and slow process for both parties.

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Fed Plans To Take A Close Look At Facebook’s Crypto

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Facebook revealed last week that it plans to launch its own digital currency next year. Authority for overseeing Libra is going to be in a number of places, but I think that the big picture is we are going to be looking really carefully at it,” said Powell. The international Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the U.K.’s

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How Mexico’s Central Bank Plans To Move Payments To Digital

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The platform lets B2B, P2P and other commerce take place over Mexico’s real time gross settlements payments system, known as SPEI (in turn tied to wire transfers) for short. As it had been done before CoDi, the user experience had been nothing short of “horrible,” where merchants had to text 18 digit account numbers to consumers.

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