President Donald Trump continues to urge Congress to pass the Credit Card Competition Act, a bill that would require any card issued by major banks to support at least two card networks, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Oct. 8). Merchant lobbyists who support the bill have...
Banks and other consumer lending institutions are finding it easier these days to score a passing grade from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) examiners amid an ongoing battle over the agency’s funding and structure. According to Reuters, more than half the institutions examined earlier this...
California has barred public officials and government employees from issuing meme coins and prohibited digital asset platforms from listing certain tokens associated with public officials. The new measures extend the state’s broad effort to regulate cryptocurrency while Congress continues to debate a federal framework. Gov....
Google says it wants to help local governments have “civic conversations” with AI’s assistance. The tech giant announced on its blog Tuesday (Sept. 22) that it was supporting the Jigsaw Partner Program, run by a tech incubator housed within Google. Google said its support will...
October 09, 2026
Banks and other consumer lending institutions are finding it easier these days to score a passing grade from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) examiners amid an ongoing battle over the agency’s funding and structure. According to Reuters, more than half the institutions examined earlier this year went through an “expedited review,” which means supervisors identified […]
March 03, 2026
If it’s not one threat, then it’s another for 21st-century cybersecurity professionals. Just how increasingly intertwined today’s global threat landscape is becoming was underscored by a Monday (March 2) alert...
January 15, 2026
Getting crypto markets legislation passed in the U.S. is becoming as volatile as crypto markets themselves. Thursday (Jan. 15) was supposed to be a big day for the digital asset...
July 16, 2025
It’s not every week that a sector with a checkered past gets the regulatory green light in the U.S. But it may end up being true this week, as the...
October 16, 2026
President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) task force, the Super Intelligence Force, will commission a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to evaluate potential dangers of the technology, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 15), citing a White House account of a meeting. Thursday’s meeting was the first one held by the task force, according to […]
October 09, 2026
President Donald Trump continues to urge Congress to pass the Credit Card Competition Act, a bill that would require any card issued by major banks to support at least two card...
September 22, 2026
Google says it wants to help local governments have “civic conversations” with AI’s assistance. The tech giant announced on its blog Tuesday (Sept. 22) that it was supporting the Jigsaw...
August 10, 2026
A trio of senators have lent their support to the Credit Card Competition Act. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, have signed on as co-sponsors...
