Interested forecasts ibm is betting on 5g growth and the cloud, it has a tieup with at t that is talking exclusively with jim about he got both. And president ial pressure trump saying his administration will take a look at accusations from tech investor peter thiel that google coordinated with the Chinese Government so some mixed reaction out on bank earnings. Jpmorgan chase, Goldman Sachs, wells fargo. Guys, obvious lly the reason th stock is down they lowered their nim forecast by 500 million. Sometimes you look at a quarter and you say, please, please, give me a highlight. Look, the efficiency ratio was good but when i look at what the other banks have done, i understand that jpmorgan is good, just not shoot the lights out. I dont think when i look line by line, look, you got some good numbers here you have the Consumer Community banking this line about the just the consumer itself, these guys are coining money theyre not coining money as i would like it because of Net Interest Mar
Proposali think the has huge potential, and i think the challenges for the transaction of the exchange for services and so forth, today, still has lots of obstacles to be overcome, including that of security and privacy. Nonetheless, we look forward to observing and participating in this because i really do think it is the wave of the future. As senator tillis said, we are either going to be responding to it or actively involved and running from it. Thank you. Senator cortez . Senator thank you very much. We appreciate you being here and answering the questions. This is obviously very innovative for all of us and exciting. Have a couple of questions if you thought through some concerns many of us have. One for me is something i dealt with in nevada as the attorney generals the issue of Money Laundering. I know there is clear Regulatory Oversight we have now to address Money Laundering that comes in so many forms, but one is terrorist financing that moneylaundering supports. How will th
We will be active in payments services, congresswoman, and enable all of these people who dont have access modern Payment Systems to move their money around and have access to World Economy and will be in the payments business, as far as colibra wallet. Let in ask you another question on governance. In your open statement you said it would nothing be overpowered by facebook because you would only have one vote. So, in the world of banking, because in my mind its still banking, were dealing with a lot of banks who merged so lets sea with your one vote you would buy stripe or you would buy spotify. Would that now just give you the one vote or guff you more control . Because we know these things merge and get bought out all the time. So if you bought to the things would that give you more power. It would not, congresswoman, because in the way that the governance is currently structured no one entity can have more than one voice or one percent of the vote. So let me go to someone asked bit
We have a Good Opportunity if we enable more people to participate to offer services that can generate revenue. This is supposed to be a Nonprofit Organization, is in the . Im talking about the calibra wallop which will directly impact facebook. Is it going to be a nonprofit . No, calibra is a forprofit entity and the entity that will dold the wallet that will be offered to facebook consumers. Is Digital Currency illegal in some parts of the world quick skinny touch on that . Gets congressman there are an number of countries that prohibit buying selling or using Digital Currencies. I also want to mention privacy violation concerns things that americans have been concerned with. The american consumer, do they trust facebook and do they feel comfortable with your company . Congressman i believe we have a lot of work to do to earn Peoples Trust and we have two definitely make though strong commitments when it comes to privacy and make good on those commitments for long periods of time. I
Free cspan radio app. Earlier today facebooks david marcus testified before the Senate Banking committee to address concerns over the companys proposed Digital Currency. This is 2 hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent, facebook formally announce ds its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white pape