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Prepaid Regulations

Prepaid’s Summer Of Uncertainty
 

It’s as quiet as a steamy summer night when it comes to the CFPB and its final prepaid ruling. Brad Fauss, CEO of the National Branded Prepaid Card Association, and Karen Webster dug into the potential for these rules — as they are currently written — to create huge regulatory disparities for essentially the same product: a depository account that’s a consumer’s main financial services conduit.

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Sizzle or Fizzle

Pokémon GO, Amazon Sellers, Bitcoin P2P On Twitter
 

Pokémon GO added $9B to Nintendo’s market cap this week, and Amazon sellers raked it in big, too. But for every Sizzle, there are those, well, Fizzles. We have three of them for you this week and have even given you a hint about one of them.
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Tech Center Roundup

Hong Kong’s Startup Powerhouse Potential
 

Hong Kong is one of those places with huge startup promise but not a lot of Fintech traction just yet. This week we take a look at Hong Kong’s tech center potential and what is needed to solidify its place as a startup accelerator.

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Masterpass Aims To Take Commerce Anywhere
 

Mastercard unveiled the latest iteration of its digital commerce push yesterday so that any device running any operating system can connect buyers and sellers across any commerce channel. Mastercard EVP James Anderson shares what it all means with Karen Webster.

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