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States Step Up Where CFPB Steps Back
States Step Up Where CFPB Steps Back
April 20, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

Aiming to fill the void resulting from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s retreat from regulation, states are stepping up and going after big financial companies....

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Mulvaney Pitches New CFPB Governance To Congress
Mulvaney Pitches New CFPB Governance To Congress
April 11, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

In his first semiannual report to Congress, Mick Mulvaney said he is taking a narrow approach to running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Mulvaney,...

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Trade War May Dwindle Amid Blinking
Trade War May Dwindle Amid Blinking
April 10, 2018  |  Legal & Regulation

The trade war may be downsized to a skirmish that maybe won’t even be waged. Or, you could say the other side blinked, a little....

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Tech Stock Slump Extends Into Third Week With Billions In Value Gone
Tech Stock Slump Extends Into Third Week With Billions In Value Gone
April 03, 2018  |  Markets

Tech stocks continued their bloodletting Monday (April 2), with everything technology related slumping, extending what is now a three-week decline as fears mount that these...

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Trump Goes After Amazon’s Postal Rates
Trump Goes After Amazon’s Postal Rates
April 02, 2018  |  Retail

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his second attack against Amazon, reiterating that the eCommerce giant is receiving cheap rates from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)...

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President Trump Seems To Have Amazon In His Sights
President Trump Seems To Have Amazon In His Sights
March 29, 2018  |  Retail

Lawmakers may be setting their sights on Facebook in the wake of its data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, but President Donald Trump has a favorite target...

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Facebook’s Sandberg: Not If, But What Type, Of Regulation Is Coming
Facebook’s Sandberg: Not If, But What Type, Of Regulation Is Coming
March 23, 2018  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg waded into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, apologizing in an interview with CNBC Thursday (March 22) and predicting the company will...

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Facebook Loses $36.7B In Market Value Amid Steep Data Scandal Sell-Off
Facebook Loses $36.7B In Market Value Amid Steep Data Scandal Sell-Off
March 20, 2018  |  Cybersecurity

Facebook’s stock tanked in trading Monday (March 19), erasing $36.7 billion in market valuation and hitting a low not seen in four years thanks to...

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As Goes The MoneyGram Deal, So Goes China, U.S. Tech Collaboration?
As Goes The MoneyGram Deal, So Goes China, U.S. Tech Collaboration?
January 05, 2018  |  Cross-border Payments

A pretty good songster named Paul McCartney sang once that “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” To...

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