CPA Practice Adviser
Wichita's largest pawnbroker, A-OK, is suing its insurers and a local accounting firm over what it says were failures to protect it against an employee embezzlement blamed for its multimillion bankruptcy filing last summer.

American Banker
Consumer advocacy groups are concerned that financial inclusion expectations for fintechs chartered as special-purpose national banks may not perfectly mirror the requirements of the Community Reinvestment Act.

Diamonds.net
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has identified a stone comprising two halves of a diamond that had been stuck together with an “unknown adhesive.” Graders noticed a large fracture and cavity on the table of the marquise-cut, 1.38-carat polished diamond submitted to the GIA’s laboratory in Carlsbad, California, for colored-diamond testing

Bloomberg
Bank branches still have greeters, coffee and sometimes fresh-baked cookies. At HSBC, there’s also Pepper, the finance robot. About 4 feet tall, Pepper is shiny white with a lemon-shaped head, large eyes that light up blue, and a tablet attached to its chest.

News3lv.com
Secret Witness is offering a $1,000 reward in northern Nevada for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a suspect or suspects wanted for the theft of dozens of guns from a Reno pawn shop.

Verified Tasks
Virtually a decade in the past, TV audiences received a glimpse into the lives of three unpretentious pawn brokers operating a store in Las Vegas. Rick, Corey, and “The Old Man,” three generations of the Harrison household, have since then been entertaining viewers of Pawn Stars with a mixture of historic trivia and household battle.

ABC13
A man exploited a loophole, officials have said, when he legally rented a pistol then illegally walked out of an indoor gun range without returning it.