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Your Quick Recap for the Senate Hearing on Banking

Posted by Carmen Mabee on Jul 29, 2019 5:06:53 PM

Due to the stark disconnect between federal and state laws, banking still remains a huge problem within the industry. Many of the issues can be sourced back to 2013 when the United States Department of Justice implemented an investigation into businesses they believed were most at risk for fraud and money laundering, in an operation they called “Operation Choke Point”.

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Topics: marijuana, frontier markets, compliance, banking, policy

Getting compliant in a new industry

Posted by Celia Daly on Oct 19, 2018 11:37:13 AM

There’s a joke we hear around the cannabis industry these days that cultivators, retailers, extraction professionals, etc. aren’t actually in the business of producing and selling cannabis - instead they’re in the business of compliance.

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Topics: cannabis companies, cannabis business, startup, frontier markets, compliance