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5 Financial News Stories You May Have Missed: Fannie Freddie Foes Fight Back
Here are news stories from the week that were easy to miss, but may have some lasting impact. 1. Farewell Fannie? Farewell Freddie? There is a bill before Congress that would eliminate Fannie Mae and...
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5 Financial News Stories You May Have Missed: FIRREA Fires Back
This week: FIRREA , Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Basel III, Bitcoin, Elizabeth Warren, SEC, FDIC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and more.
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5 Financial News Stories You May Have Missed: The Biggest Brother
This week: European LIBOR fines, trader eavesdropping, civil money penalties, Credit Unions, and Bitcoin.
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The Next Big Thing in Banking May Not be a Bank
“Chase or Google?” my colleague challenged me, asking which would be more important in ten years’ time. The answer may well be neither. Thanks to technology, many services that were once the exclusive...
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To Bit or Not to Bit: Virtual Currencies, Real-World Risk
What do Ashton Kutcher, Bill Miller, Marc Andreessen, the Winklevoss twins, and Daniel Master all have in common? They are all supporters, investors or owners of virtual currency. While bitcoin is the...
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Bitcoin: Impossible to Insure?
Virtual currency may be an inevitable part of our increasingly virtual world, but that doesn’t mean insurance companies have to like it – or insure it. Insurers are comfortable with what they know –...
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Insuring Bitcoin
The insurance market will not insure the value of bitcoins. But insurance can play a vital role in helping make the virtual currency a safer investment overall. Let’s be clear. Insurers generally don’t...
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Bitpay Sues Insurer After Denied Cyber Claim for Spearphishing
In December, BitPay, one of the leading BitCoin payment processors, was the victim of a social engineering attack. A hacker successfully spearphished the CFO’s email account information. The criminal...
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Blockchain – How far can business process automation go?
Although Bitcoin is now 8 years old, the current driver of interest in blockchain is the ability to reduce logistical costs, prevent fraud and eliminate legal disputes.
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Blockchain: What risk managers need to know
There is no perhaps greater risk to our global economy in the coming years than a large-scale cyber event. Blockchain may represent the best hope for preventing or limiting such an incident in the...
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