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JPMorgan Chase Opens Earnings Season With Card Loan Growth, Mobile Additions
JPMorgan Chase Opens Earnings Season With Card Loan Growth, Mobile Additions
July 14, 2017  |  Earnings

JPMorgan Chase posted results that helped kick off earnings season Friday morning. The firm showed traction in its loan book, mobile efforts and credit card...

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Ant Financial Resubmits MoneyGram Bid to U.S. Authorities
Ant Financial Resubmits MoneyGram Bid to U.S. Authorities
July 12, 2017  |  Investments

Alibaba Holding affiliate Ant Financial has resubmitted its bid to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram to U.S. authorities for review. Reuters, quoting unnamed sources...

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IBM Is In D.C. Making The Case Why AI Won’t Destroy Mankind
IBM Is In D.C. Making The Case Why AI Won’t Destroy Mankind
June 28, 2017  |  Artificial Intelligence

IBM is in Washington, D.C., this week to make the case to federal government officials that artificial intelligence isn’t going to steal jobs from humans....

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Behind the Stock Slump and Trump Trade Uncertainty
Behind the Stock Slump and Trump Trade Uncertainty
May 18, 2017  |  News

    If there is one thing Wall Street hates it is uncertainty.  And investors hate uncertainty about uncertainty even more. The Dow Industrial Average...

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Retailers Head To DC To Uphold Swipe Fee Reform
Retailers Head To DC To Uphold Swipe Fee Reform
April 27, 2017  |  Retail

As Congress moved to hold a hearing on legislation that would repeal the debit card swipe fee reform, retailers from across the U.S., along with...

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Advocacy Group Sues US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Advocacy Group Sues US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
April 19, 2017  |  CFPB

Protecting consumers from credit card fraud is a massive undertaking and is something that’s not likely taken lightly by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....

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CFPB Touts Structural Changes Won’t Impact Operations
CFPB Touts Structural Changes Won’t Impact Operations
April 03, 2017  |  Regulation

The Trump administration’s Justice Department’s March 17 brief outlining the possible unconstitutional structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was met with some resistance from...

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Payments Stocks Skew To The Downside
Payments Stocks Skew To The Downside
March 27, 2017  |  Investments

Stocks rose and fell with all eyes on the Trump administration’s and Congress’ efforts to get health care reform passed. Obviously those efforts wavered and...

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NC Senator Tillis Argues Goldman Sachs Is In It For The Little Guy
NC Senator Tillis Argues Goldman Sachs Is In It For The Little Guy
March 27, 2017  |  Banking

North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis argued last week that Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs is looking out for the little guy and has been...

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