June 29, 2020
Apple Debuts Credit Improvement Program For Declined Card Applicants
Apple is launching a “Path to Apple Card” program intended to help declined Apple Card applicants improve their credit worthiness, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
June 29, 2020
IRS Corporate Audits Drop 71 Pct, Individual Audits Fall 65...
The number of tax audits on corporations plunged amid the pandemic, with the IRS saying in the National Taxpayer Advocate’s “Objectives Report to Congress” report for Fiscal Year 2021 that...
June 29, 2020
Coty Pays $200M For 20% Stake In Kim Kardashian Brand
Coty is in talks with Kim Kardashian West for a possible collaboration “with respect to certain beauty products,” according to a regulatory filing. The possible partnership comes just months after...
June 29, 2020
Supreme Court: President Has Authority To Fire CFPB Chief
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a key feature of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that limited presidential authority to fire the agency’s chief. The bureau was one of...
June 29, 2020
Lenders Tighten Credit Requirements Amid New Reporting Rules
It’s a little harder for U.S. consumers to get credit as lenders retreat during the coronavirus crisis, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
June 29, 2020
Ex-Nordstrom Exec Says Department Stores Must Step Up To Survive
A former Nordstrom executive is calling on the department store sector to meet the needs of customers and keep pace with technology – or face extinction. Get the Full Story Complete the...
June 29, 2020
Zogo: How A 21-Year-Old Duke University Grad Is Reinventing Financial...
When Bolun Li was in high school, a local bank came in and offered a heavily branded PowerPoint presentation about financial services and money management to students who reacted pretty...
June 29, 2020
Wirecard, Enron And Warning Signs Across Two Decades
Author George Santayana famously wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And Mark Twain once wrote: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Get...
June 28, 2020
PE Firms Shun Investments In Older Firms Hard Hit By...
Companies owned by private equity firms are not seeing the money for protection that those firms ostensibly have saved up, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, and many are tumbling...
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