Dan Roda, CEO
Abaca
Cannabis financial services provider Abaca has partnered with Staley Technologies and CIMA to digitize one of the last remaining analog aspects of the industry - cash management.
The NACB and the EMC have formed a strategic alliance to develop a National Standard for Cash Management for the cannabis industry.
From Benzinga.com
“The Emerging Markets Coalition is excited to be partnering with NACB in developing standards. This is a collaboration of both the banking and cannabis industries to ensure pragmatic and prudent practices to support the transparency and anti-crime efforts necessary in a cash heavy industry” EMC co-founder and CEO Kirsten Trusko said.
A new whitepaper by: Kirsten Trusko, Kelly Whyman and Sarah Londberg
“On the road to normalization in the emerging market of cannabis financial services - there is a flood of information but a dessert of facts...”
Johntae James, CEO
NatureTrak
James is the founder and CEO of Sacramento-based NatureTrak, an accounting and tracking system for financial institutions to be able to create an auditable supply chain record for their legal cannabis business customers.
Stinson LLP
“As the need for solutions to the cash basis for the emerging markets grows, we joined EMC to work with other leaders in the space to identify solutions that work in the legal and regulatory environment.”
EMC’s Kirsten Trusko and Kelly Whyman of Seed to CPA talk with Trichomes about the opportunities and challenges…
Chris Rentner, CEO
SpenceLabs
“Financial transactions in the cannabis industry can be complicated, both for consumers and the many businesses in the supply chain,” Chris Rentner, co-founder and chief executive of Spence Labs, said. “Our goal is to make it simpler and safer for everyone involved, from grower to retailer to customer.”
Trent Sorbe, CEO
Central Payments
“Regardless of the legislative status surrounding cannabis banking, the industry will always need an organization to lead the development of best practices. We joined EMC because we recognize its potential to foster collaboration and thought-leadership.”
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What is the Emerging Markets Coalition?
The Emerging Markets Coalition (“EMC”) is a member-driven advocacy and educational organization for financial services in highly cash based and underserved markets. Our 1st targets are the cannabis related industries (hemp, CBD, Cannabis). EMC advocates and drives for the normalization, electronification, and increased accessibility to full financial services for the cannabis-related industries – enabling these businesses to operate as do other legal businesses in a growing, regulated, emerging market.
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EMC’s leaders, board, and advisors have contributed to multiple cannabis financial services podcasts, webinars, news articles and research. Available here.
We’ve assembled some fast-facts and placed our whitepaper on Cannabis Financial Services: Opportunities and Challenges right here.
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