Citizens Bank parent company Citizens Financial Group learned in a pilot program that its deployment of software tools across its engineering teams is likely to deliver a 10x boost in engineering productivity. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has launched a sweeping effort to reduce regulatory burdens across state government, pairing a broad review of existing rules with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify opportunities for streamlining. The initiative, which the administration describes as the largest regulatory review in state history, is intended to eliminate outdated […]

This article by Ian Forrester & Pablo Trevisán examines the evolving concept of due process in global competition law enforcement, contrasting inquisitorial and adversarial traditions. While the European integrated administrative model is judicially accepted, the common law adversarial system offers a superior mechanism for factual verification and ensures that defending parties genuinely feel heard by […]

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) has launched a new effort focused on reducing the scale and severity of scams affecting Americans. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS […]

After more than a decade of vigorous advocacy by policy analysts, journalists, and legal scholars, federal and state enforcers finally found the political will to initiate numerous antitrust enforcement actions under Section 2 of the Sherman Act—the antitrust provision proscribing unfair monopolization. During the first Trump and Biden administrations, multiple enforcement actions were brought against […]

Because technological change outpaces governments’ ability to regulate, the U.S. government often adapts existing regulatory tools to address national security risk presented by emerging technologies, rather than developing new and customized tools. As both Congress and the Executive Branch have increasingly been focusing on investment security issues, existing tools such as the Committee on Foreign […]

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has granted financial awards to a group of officials credited with uncovering a large-scale price-fixing scheme in the domestic sugar market, distributing millions of won in bonuses as part of a new incentive program, according to a statement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free […]

Three years ago, First Citizens BancShares acquired failing crypto/tech-focused lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and […]

The White House has picked Robinhood and BNY to operate its new child-centric savings accounts. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and […]

As countries around the world rush to encourage greater investment and growth in their domestic AI industries, we argue that unless governments develop industrial policy strategies centered on strengthening democratic economic governance, they risk consolidating corporate control of critical technologies in ways that threaten key democratic and societal objectives. In this paper, we (1) define […]