Your Hemp Portfolio Has 33 Days. Is Your Bank Ready—or Just Sending Letters? Section 781 is about to expose one of the largest blind spots in payments: banks and processors still don't know enough about the products their merchants sell. The consequences could reach far beyond compliance. There is a countdown happening across the hemp […]

Square Is Leaving Hemp. The Bigger Question Is Why Banks and Processors Keep Leaving. The Hemp Industry Has Spent a Decade Outsourcing Compliance to Its Financial Partners. That Model Is Breaking. For years, the hemp industry has complained about payment processors and banks. Accounts get terminated. Applications take too long. Documentation requirements change. Products get […]

The 781 Hemp Rule Is a Wake-Up Call for Payment Processors and Banks Why Product-Level Intelligence Is Becoming the New Standard for Merchant Risk For the past several years, the hemp industry has operated in one of the most complex and rapidly evolving regulatory environments in commerce. Federal guidance, state laws, card brand policies, and […]

The 781 Hemp Bill Is Coming: Are You Ready for the Impact? What Every Bank, Payment Processor, and Sponsor Bank Needs to Know Before November "Regulatory change doesn't create risk. Being unprepared for regulatory change does."   Introduction November is quickly approaching, and for the hemp industry, it may represent one of the most significant […]