Credit unions (CUs) are unique among financial institutions (FIs) for the sense of loyalty they inspire among their members. PYMNTS’ Credit...
Airbnb is facing questions from U.S. lawmakers who want information about hosts who go against the company’s policies and don’t comply with local...
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would effectively make marijuana legal, the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) announced in a...
In response to questions from a congressional committee, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook defended their practices and declined to answer some questions. The tech firms have...
Amazon, in a newly released document by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, said it uses “aggregated data” from sellers who...
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has voted in favor of banning a controversial practice in small business lending, The Washington Post...
An online merchant has written a letter to Congress saying that the company was forced to use Amazon’s logistics services, as it...
U.S. lawmakers proposed new legislation last week that would require internet platforms to more or less lay bare the intellectual property that...
Proposals in both chambers of Congress would limit the use of anonymous shell companies, impacting small businesses in the U.S. Last month,...
It may be a bit ironic that the halls of Congress are known, colloquially, as the Hill. It’s an upward climb, after...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the mass amounts of data collected by big technology companies, like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google,...
Payday lending practices again came under fire Wednesday (Oct. 16) from members of the U.S. Congress, as Kathy Kraninger, director of the Consumer...
The CEO of Foursquare, a location data company, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times Wednesday (Oct. 16), saying, “It’s...
The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee wrote letters to the CEO’s of both Lyft and Uber...
You have to give digital and mobile technology some credit — over time, the complexities of travel pricing and costs (along with other...
As part of its continuing probe into potential antitrust practices that hamper competition, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has asked...
Big tech companies Facebook, Google and Amazon are going to be the subject of a new congressional hearing, in addition to the...
The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow, its proposed real-time payments...
With questions surrounding Facebook’s market power and its plans for the Libra digital currency, the social media company is reportedly negotiating with an...
Americans don’t trust members of Congress and are more likely to have confidence in journalists, police and the military, a Pew Research...
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is conducting an investigation into Apple over potential antitrust practices, and on Friday (Sep. 13) it requested...
An open letter to Congress asking for a consumer data privacy law was signed by 51 CEOs across tech and other industries,...
U.S. congressional investigators have found possible failures in Deutsche Bank AG’s money laundering controls. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that...
During an upcoming visit to Switzerland, American lawmakers plan to discuss Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. A group of six lawmakers, led by...
Merchants who sell their products on both Amazon and Walmart are complaining about the pressure they’re getting from Amazon to raise their...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and its Executive Chairman Chris Larsen penned an open letter to Congress regarding the regulations of cryptocurrencies. The...
U.S. lawmakers submitted a bill to Congress Wednesday (July 24) in an effort to reauthorize the nation’s Export-Import Bank for the next...
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow in popularity: A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) study projects there will be 41.6...
While we cannot accurately say that the two days Facebook’s David Marcus were the worst two days a Facebook executive has ever...
Lawmakers doubts over Facebook‘s planned cryptocurrency, Libra, is having a negative impact on bitcoin. The Wall Street Journal reported that bitcoin’s price...
David Marcus, the head of Facebook’s blockchain department and the face of its proposed cryptocurrency Libra, has released his congressional testimony ahead...
Just days before the Facebook Libra hearings, a draft bill to limit “Big Tech’s” entry into finance and crypto has surfaced online....
In a first-ever congressional hearing on marijuana law reform, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security convened July 10...
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve called for a stop to Libra, Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, until the project better demonstrated how...
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell spoke to a congressional committee on Wednesday (July 10) about the organization’s concerns with...
The head of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project, Libra, is defending the company in a letter to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and other...
The United States has removed certain restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co. The move comes as President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi...
Efforts from lawmakers in the U.S. to come up with a national privacy law have hit a wall, with Senators unable to...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough,...
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
Democrats would like to see bank executives get grilled by Congress on an annual basis. After Wall Street leaders spent hours answering...
It really wasn’t supposed to be this way, not as cannabis steadily became legal across the United States. Read the old pro-legalization...
U.S. lawmakers continue to press for more affordable bankruptcy for small businesses, with Congress reintroducing the Small Business Reorganization Act earlier this...
U.S. lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make tech companies detect and remove any discriminatory biases found in their technologies. The...
The heads of some of the nation’s biggest banks will stress how much more secure the financial system is thanks to regulations...
A bill that could bring clarity to payments for legal cannabis purchases in the U.S. was set for an important vote this...
Financial firms, fertilizer, beverage, and other mainstream companies are calling on Congress to enable pot companies to have access to banks. According...
A beer vending machine that accepts cryptocurrency payment is now available for preorder. Decentralized identity startup Civic debuted a $15,000 machine that...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s privacy practices came under scrutiny Tuesday (March 12) during a U.S. Senate hearing, further proof that issues...
Call it a reunion of sorts, a gathering of banking execs not seen since the less-than-heady days of the financial crisis a...