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   "standing_position": "Colorado is one of the few states with its own statutory surcharge regime governing card-scheme interchange pass-through: C.R.S. 5-2-212 permits credit/charge-card surcharging up to 2% or actual merchant discount fee, with mandatory disclosure, signage and line-item receipt rules, while excluding debit, cash and check from surchargeable transactions.",
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     "source": "https://www.agg.com/news-insights/publications/colorado-opens-the-door-to-surcharging-five-key-takeaways/",
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   "standing_position": "Colorado is a globally significant corridor hub because Western Union, the world's largest cross-border money-transfer business, is headquartered in Denver, operating a vast agent network spanning 200+ countries and territories with substantial local remittance flow originating from the Denver metro region itself.",
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   "standing_position": "Colorado's payments industry structure blends one dominant global incumbent (Western Union), a large regional bank now fully absorbed into a national acquirer (FirstBank was acquired by PNC, legally closing January 5, 2026, with customer/branch conversion completed June 22, 2026), and a dense cluster of Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins fintechs spanning embedded finance, PayFac-as-a-service, bill-pay and payroll, within a fast-growing regional venture-funding environment.",
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     "source": "https://www.inven.ai/company-lists/top-21-fintech-companies-in-colorado",
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   "standing_position": "The dominant live payments/consumer-credit litigation in Colorado is NAIB et al. v. Weiser, the fintech-industry challenge to the state's 2024 DIDMCA opt-out interest-rate-cap law. After the district court granted a preliminary injunction against Colorado in 2024 and a Tenth Circuit panel reversed 2-1 in November 2025, the full Tenth Circuit vacated that panel decision and granted en banc rehearing on April 7, 2026; the case is now pending en banc consideration with oral argument scheduled for August 18, 2026, and the scope of Colorado's opt-out authority remains unsettled. Alongside this, the Attorney General/UCCC Administrator continues active enforcement against payments-adjacent consumer-finance conduct (debt collection, credit repair).",
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     "source": "https://www.bankingdive.com/news/colorado-law-virginia-sb1252-legislation-would-impact-fintech-lending/741044/",
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   "standing_position": "Colorado enacted SB26-131 (Sports Betting Protections), effective 2026-08-12, which bans internet sports-betting operators from accepting deposits by credit card - directly or indirectly - and caps an individual bettor at six deposits per 24-hour gaming day, a payment-rail-level restriction on a licensed high-risk merchant category.",
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     "source": "https://www.dwmk.com/sellers-and-lessors-limited-in-credit-card-surcharges-to-consumers-and-lessees",
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     "source": "https://coag.gov/app/uploads/2019/07/2002-12-02_fees_for_electronic_debits_and_pmts.pdf",
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   "standing_position": "Colorado's product-innovation posture centers on its 2019 crypto-friendly Digital Token Act, a state IT mandate to evaluate blockchain/DLT for government projects, growing FedNow instant-payments adoption among Colorado banks, and a pending (not yet enacted) 2026 bill to regulate earned-wage-access services.",
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     "source": "https://tokenist.com/colorado-signs-digital-token-act-into-law-some-digital-assets-exempt-from-securities-requirements/",
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     "source": "https://oedit.colorado.gov/sites/coedit/files/documents/blockchainreport_final_2-6-2019.pdf",
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     "source": "https://www.builtincolorado.com/companies/type/fintech-companies/reputation/stability-growth",
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     "instrument_type": "pending_legislation",
     "source": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB26-1046",
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   "standing_position": "Colorado consumer protection for payments harms rests on the Colorado Consumer Protection Act (AG enforcement), a data-breach notification statute (C.R.S. 6-1-716) with a 30-day notice duty and AG/credit-bureau notification thresholds, and dedicated fraud-reporting infrastructure (Stop Fraud Colorado, CBI's 24-hour identity-theft hotline). The AG has directly enforced payment-card breach notification against a Denver merchant.",
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     "source": "https://cbi.colorado.gov/investigations/crime-scene-investigation/economic-crimes/identity-theft-fraud-and-cyber-crimes",
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   "name": "AML/CFT & Financial Crime",
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   "standing_position": "W11 is Sentinel.gi-fed by design; this collection pass could not retrieve a Sentinel.gi payments-context feed item for US-CO. Structural federal/state AML architecture applicable to Colorado money-transmission licensees (FinCEN MSB registration, BSA program obligations) is noted as factual context only, not as original illicit-finance analysis.",
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     "instrument_type": "employee_affirmation",
     "source": "https://banking.colorado.gov/sites/banking/files/Early_Stakeholder_Engagement_Memo_Money_Transmitters_Rule.pdf",
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     "finding": "Colorado operates under the federal Bank Secrecy Act/AML framework administered by FinCEN, overlaid by state money-transmitter licensing (Colorado Money Transmitters Act, C.R.S. Title 11-110) supervised by the Colorado Division of Banking (DORA). Federal Corporate Transparency Act BOI reporting for domestic entities was rescinded in March 2025, removing a key transparency backstop for Colorado-formed LLCs; state cannabis banking remains cash-intensive due to persistent federal-state conflict.",
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