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NY Dept Financial Services: Online Lenders Need Oversight
NY Dept Financial Services: Online Lenders Need Oversight
July 12, 2018  |  Regulation

New York’s Department of Financial Services is recommending that online lenders are subjected to the same scrutiny and regulations that traditional banks face. Get the...

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Chef’d Meal Kits Coming To New York Area Drugstores
Chef’d Meal Kits Coming To New York Area Drugstores
June 14, 2018  |  Retail

Chef’d, the maker of meal kits that can be purchased in grocery stores, has inked a deal to sell the kits in Walgreens and Duane Reade...

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Record Number Of NYC Taxi Medallions Up For Auction
Record Number Of NYC Taxi Medallions Up For Auction
June 11, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Call it the Uber effect: A record 139 New York City taxi medallions will be up for sale in bankruptcy auction this month as cab...

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Munchery Shuts Down Its Service In Seattle, NY, LA
Munchery Shuts Down Its Service In Seattle, NY, LA
May 14, 2018  |  Delivery

Munchery Chief Executive James Beriker announced late last week that the company is shutting down operations in Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles. Get the...

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New York AG Wants More Info From Crypto Traders
New York AG Wants More Info From Crypto Traders
April 18, 2018  |  Regulation

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced the launch of the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative, a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of...

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Nordstrom Gears Up For First Full-Line Store In Manhattan
Nordstrom Gears Up For First Full-Line Store In Manhattan
April 09, 2018  |  Retail

To draw in fashion-conscious customers and those on their lunch breaks, Nordstrom is gearing up to open its inaugural, full-line store in Manhattan. The location...

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Red Flags Raised Over Potential NY Fed Appointment
Red Flags Raised Over Potential NY Fed Appointment
March 28, 2018  |  Personnel

John C. Williams, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, is reportedly being tapped to replace the retiring president of the New...

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Retail History: From Bell Helicopters To Blade And UberCopter
Retail History: From Bell Helicopters To Blade And UberCopter
March 08, 2018  |  Retail

On this day in 1946, the future of commercial air transportation was forever reshaped: Bell Helicopter’s Model 47B was granted the first commercial helicopter license...

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists
And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists
January 18, 2018  |  Amazon

The finalists are in, and Amazon has chosen its list of the 20 cities still in the running to be the home of its second...

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