March 1, 2018
Marijuana dispensaries have come a long way in a short time. When my stoner niece brought me to her favorite dispensary recently, I was blown away […]
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February 21, 2018
On Thursday, Feb. 15, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in San Francisco re: Hemp Industries Association vs. DEA. The hearing was the […]
February 2, 2018
On February 15, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will issue a decision that will have far-reaching consequences in the industrial hemp industry. The Court will […]
October 26, 2017
I frequently get calls from companies saying they have received letters from state regulators requesting information related to whether they have acted as a money service […]
June 8, 2017
Disaster has struck. Your merchant ID was shut down, leaving you unable to process credit-card payments. What happens next? For instance, are you put on Match? […]
March 3, 2017
Late last month, Pennsylvania issued an advisory that its money transmitter regulations are violated when payments companies–payment facilitators and ISOs–collect money from consumers and forward it […]
March 1, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies have a newfound willingness to hold payment processors liable for the unlawful conduct of their merchants. This is […]
February 28, 2017
Whether you are an ISO or a merchant level salesperson (MLS), odds are you will at some point receive an unexpected visit from a government agency. […]
February 27, 2017
Every week, I get a call from an agent or ISO (whom we will simply call the “agent”) complaining that an ISO or other upstream processing […]