February 02, 2016
Is The Physical Shopping Mall Dead?

To paraphrase the German philosopher Nietzsche: The mall is dead, we killed it by shopping online. The data has been marching in for years — occupancy rates at the nation’s malls...

February 02, 2016
How FinServ Funding Influences The Election

The Iowa caucus dust may be barely settled, but one force may continue to be a powerful one, regardless of the eventual nominees of either U.S. political party: Wall Street....

February 02, 2016
Landry’s Defines Payments Breach Scope

In Las Vegas, the house always wins. But in the seedy underbelly of the Internet, there’s nothing casinos can do when lax cybersecurity policies leave backdoors wide open to hackers...

February 01, 2016
Need Money Laundered? Try A Real Estate Lawyer

Anti-money laundering activist group Global Witness has recently released a report that indicates that a surprising number of New York real estate lawyers are making a nice little business for themselves advising clients...

February 01, 2016
CFPB Goes To Court, BoA Goes Cardless And TSYS Goes...

As American poet, entrepreneur and scholar Sean “P. Diddy/Puff Daddy/Puffy” Combs famously observed in his 1998 classic, “it’s all about the Benjamins (baby).” And at no time is that more...

January 29, 2016
Private Equity Dry Powder May Not Deserve Lighting

In the private equity world, just as is the case in the public equity markets, the time to buy is when others are fearful. That’s an old investment adage, and...

January 26, 2016
BlackLine Touts Real-Time Accounting ‘First’

Cloud-based financial reporting tool BlackLine has just introduced a new capability into its service, and the company is calling it an industry first. An announcement made Monday (Jan. 25) said...

January 26, 2016
Ingo Money’s Quiet Check Destruction Project

There are few questions that will spark off a loud and potentially violent argument in a room full of politicians, bankers, lawyers or plumbers — because it is hard to...

January 25, 2016
The Coming Wave Of Activists Invest In Retail

After a holiday season rife with underperformance and a year where stock prices steadily trended down, analysts are looking at retail to be the likely magnet for activist investors and...