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Banking Up For Grab In Singapore

Forrester IT

Following in Hong Kong’s footsteps, Singapore’s regulator – Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) – has confirmed that it is currently studying the possibility of issuing digital-only banking licenses to organizations with a “non-bank” parentage, which was first reported on May 7th, 2019 by various news outlets.

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Senators ask regulators to investigate bank and crypto ties, citing Washington state bank

GeekWire

Elizabeth Warren at a 2019 campaign rally in Seattle. bank regulators to investigate the ties between the banking industry and cryptocurrency firms including Farmington, Wash.-based based Moonstone Bank. Moonstone Bank, formerly known as Farmington State Bank, was acquired in 2020 by FBH. Tina Smith (D-Minn.)

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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

The purchase order for $224,000 describes “clearview licenses” and lists “ICE mission support dallas” as the contracting office. As first reported by BuzzFeed News , thousands of companies, including the NBA, Bank of America, Macy’s, and Walmart, were discovered to be using Clearview’s technology.

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The streaming service formerly known as IMDb TV is rebranding to ‘Amazon Freevee’

The Verge

After launching as “ IMDb Freedive ” back in 2019, IMDb TV quickly faded into the background of the ongoing streaming wars that parent company Amazon had already established a respectable foothold in.

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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

Frederick Brown/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. In 2020, the amount of money people in the US lost to romance scams, which usually start online, surged 50 percent from the year before, jumping from just over $200 million in 2019 to more than $300 million, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

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Shares of Neoleukin Therapeutics spike after announcing layoffs and potential sale or merger

GeekWire

The publicly traded Seattle biotech company hired investment bank SVB Securities to review potential alternatives including a sale, merger, asset divestiture or licensing. “It Drachman, a former executive at Seagen, led Neoleukin since it spun out of the University of Washington in 2019. Neoleukin later raised $86.2

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Wizards of the Coast will continue supporting third-party content for D&D

GeekWire

currently grants permission for independent authors and creators to publish their own “homebrew” D&D material for profit under the Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice. 14, a Bank of America analyst downgraded Hasbro’s stock , accusing it of “killing the golden goose.”

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