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1.4KLegalOracle Says It Backs Groups Taking On Big Tech Rivals
Oracle is among the donors of the Internet Accountability Project (IAP), which aims to fight against the dominance of Big Tech. California-based Oracle...
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1.4KBusinessIf Elected, Bloomberg To Divest Media Company
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg plans to sell his multibillion-dollar financial data and media company Bloomberg L.P. if he wins the presidency, The...
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3.3KInternationalWhite House Wants Extension For Part Of Huawei Ban
The White House Office of Management and Budget is seeking an extension to implement the ban on working with Huawei, the Chinese...
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4.2KRegulationTrump Sets Sights On Stopping Fakes On Third-Party Marketplaces
President Donald Trump signed off on a memorandum Wednesday (April 3) aimed at curbing the sale of counterfeit goods, reported Reuters. Citing...
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3.4KEconomyFourth Quarter GDP Growth Revised Lower
In spite of the $1.5 trillion tax cuts put into place at the end of 2017 by President Donald Trump, the economy...
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5.2KCFPBDems Vow To Reverse CFPB Actions Under Mulvaney
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came under fire from the House Financial Services Committee, which is now controlled by Democrats, during a...
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3.6KInternationalBusiness As Usual For North Korean Hackers Despite Trump Meeting
At the same time that President Trump was meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, hackers in North Korea continued to attack...
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3.4KLegalSupreme Court Dismisses Case Over CFPB Power
A challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Jan. 14)...
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3.5KPersonnelKathy Kraninger One Step Closer To CFPB Nom
Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s pick as the new full-time director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), passed an important procedural vote...
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5.2KInternationalSWIFT Kicks Iranian Banks Off Messaging System Due To Sanctions
SWIFT, the messaging system that connects over 11,000 financial institutions as they transfer money around the globe, has ended its relationship with...
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4.5KANTITRUSTLooking Into What ‘Looking Into’ Tech Antitrust Activity Might Mean
In antitrust we trust – or at least a “look into” antitrust? News came Monday (Nov. 5) that, according to President Donald...
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3.0KEconomyRetailers Hope Tariffs Don’t Ruin The Holidays
Retailers are racing against the impact of tariffs for the holiday shopping season. That’s the view of The Wall Street Journal, which...
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2.8KAmazonAmazon’s Bezos: Location Of Second Headquarters To Be Revealed By Year End
Amazon.com’s head Jeff Bezos said Thursday (September 13) during an interview at the Economic Club in Washington D.C. that the world will...
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3.9KDeliverySenate Hearing On Post Office Prices Has Been Delayed
A Senate hearing slated to look at overhauling the U.S. Postal Service — including looking at what Amazon and others pay for...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsThe SWIFT Debate, In Europe And Beyond
There may be no swift end to this SWIFT debate. Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, said late this month that there should...
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4.6KGlobal PaymentsSWIFT Debate Shows Politics, Payments Make Strange Bedfellows
The headlines all play on the name “SWIFT” in some form or another: “Germany Wants A Swift End To SWIFT,” or “Some...
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4.4KGoogleTrump Administration ‘Taking a Look’ At Google
The Washington Post reports that, amid a number of other controversies and regulatory actions and examinations fixated on Google, the Trump administration...
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3.1KRetailTrump-Led Harley-Davidson Boycott Divides Bikers
To help avoid European Union tariffs, Harley-Davidson has said that it would take some of its production out of the U.S. The...
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4.1KNewsFive at Five: Brookstone Ends Era With Bankruptcy
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes a bankruptcy...
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4.5KAmazonAmazon Gets Hit With Fine From Italy Over Postal Services
Amazon has been hit with a fine from AGCOM, Italy’s communications regulator, for providing postal services without getting approval from the government....
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3.7KEconomyMagic Beans (No, Not Really) Help Quicken US Economic Growth In 2Q
Economic growth? It all amounts to a hill of beans. A really big hill of beans. Okay, we’re not being literal. But...
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3.5KPersonnelOne Leadership Battle Ends At The CFPB, A New One Begins
The leadership situation at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been something of a complicated story since original Director Richard Cordray...
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3.8KAmazonPresident Trump Launches Fresh Round Of Attacks On Amazon
President Donald Trump is once again outraged at Amazon, and is once again complaining that the eCommerce giant is using the U.S....
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3.5KGooglePresident Trump Not Happy With EU Fine On Google
President Donald Trump is coming to the defense of Google after the European Union hit the Internet search giant with a $5...
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4.3KFacebookSEC Investigates Facebook Again On Data Security
The Securities and Exchange Commission is once again investigating Facebook, this time looking into whether the social media giant adequately warned investors...
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3.6KDebtSupreme Court Nominee Had Tens of Thousands Of Dollars In Credit Card Debt
Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt purchasing baseball...
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4.1KCFPBJudge Rules CFPB Structure Unconstitutional
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional. According to Reuters,...
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3.2KEconomyTrump Trade Policies Weighing On Stocks
President Donald Trump’s tax reform — signed into law late last year — was a boon for the stock market, but his tough trade...
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5.1KPersonnelWhite House To Nominate Budget Official As New Head Of CFPB
In an effort to roll back more oversight powers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the White House is nominating a...
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3.4KInternationalA Tale Of Two China (Tech Firm) Policies?
When a big firm shuts down, it’s not every day that a sitting president lobbies to get it un-shut. Nor is it often...
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2.9KCFPBCFPB’s Mulvaney Could Stay Until the End of Year
The White House is stretching out the tenure of Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, by taking...
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States Step Up Where CFPB Steps Back
Aiming to fill the void resulting from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s retreat from regulation, states are stepping up and going after...
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5.8KCFPBMulvaney Pitches New CFPB Governance To Congress
In his first semiannual report to Congress, Mick Mulvaney said he is taking a narrow approach to running the Consumer Financial Protection...
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3.2KPoliticsTrade War May Dwindle Amid Blinking
The trade war may be downsized to a skirmish that maybe won’t even be waged. Or, you could say the other side...
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7.3KMarket ConditionsTech Stock Slump Extends Into Third Week With Billions In Value Gone
Tech stocks continued their bloodletting Monday (April 2), with everything technology related slumping, extending what is now a three-week decline as fears...
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3.2KAmazonTrump Goes After Amazon’s Postal Rates
U.S. President Donald Trump launched his second attack against Amazon, reiterating that the eCommerce giant is receiving cheap rates from the U.S....
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4.4KAmazonPresident Trump Seems To Have Amazon In His Sights
Lawmakers may be setting their sights on Facebook in the wake of its data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, but President Donald Trump has...
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2.2KFacebookFacebook’s Sandberg: Not If, But What Type, Of Regulation Is Coming
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg waded into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, apologizing in an interview with CNBC Thursday (March 22) and predicting...
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Facebook Loses $36.7B In Market Value Amid Steep Data Scandal Sell-Off
Facebook’s stock tanked in trading Monday (March 19), erasing $36.7 billion in market valuation and hitting a low not seen in four...
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6.2KInternationalAs Goes The MoneyGram Deal, So Goes China, U.S. Tech Collaboration?
A pretty good songster named Paul McCartney sang once that “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love...
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6.9KCFPBNCUA Head McWatters In Running For CFPB Head Appointment
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) chairman J. Mark McWatters is in the running to be named the next leader of the Consumer...
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5.3KLegalKaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Agency Ban
Kaspersky Lab, the security company that saw the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ban the use of its products within the confines...
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Court Rules Mulvaney Can Serve As Interim Director For Now
In the battle over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), score one for team Trump. Perhaps temporarily, perhaps with staying power. In late-breaking...
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4.4KPersonnelCFPB Director Dispute Is Going To Court
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s departing president, Richard Cordray, created uncertainty surrounding the leadership of the government watchdog after naming a temporary...
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4.3KBank RegulationInterim OCC Chief Wants More Individual Discretion For Bank Examiners
While a top U.S. bank regulator has been working to ensure that examiners go easier on the institutions they inspect, he pointed...
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5.5KCFPBTrump Places OMB Head Mick Mulvaney As Interim CFPB Head
In the wake of Richard Cordray stepping down from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), President Donald Trump has tapped White House...
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4.0KCFPBCongress Reacts to Cordray’s Departure
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Chief Richard Cordray is resigning from his position as soon as the end of this month. According...
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5.4KAppleSupremes Ask DOJ To Weigh In On Apple Class Action Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court has requested the White House and the Trump Administration weigh in on whether it should hear Apple’s arguments...
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The CFPB Needs To Improve Its Cybersecurity, According To An Internal Investigation
According to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s internal inspector, the CFPB must do more to strengthen its protections against hacking....
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4.7KSizzle/FizzleFizzle Of The Week: Puerto Rico’s Cash Crisis
Sizzle Toys R Us: Might the beleaguered retailer, which recently filed for bankruptcy, have a lifeline that is enough to keep kids...
