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Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Take Trump’s Amazon Criticism Personally
Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Take Trump’s Amazon Criticism Personally
April 25, 2018  |  Amazon

Amazon’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, said on Tuesday (April 24) that large companies should expect to face scrutiny and be examined by regulators. Reuters reported that...

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Spring Speculation Has Sprung: Walmart, Amazon, Trump And Target
Spring Speculation Has Sprung: Walmart, Amazon, Trump And Target
April 02, 2018  |  Data Dive

Spring, after a long delay, has arrived. It seems to have (mostly) stopped snowing, the April Fools’ Day Easter baskets have been put away, and now...

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Trump’s Nominee For FTC Chief Talks Tough On Antitrust
Trump’s Nominee For FTC Chief Talks Tough On Antitrust
February 06, 2018  |  ANTITRUST

Joseph Simons, a retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, is President Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Federal Trade Commission,...

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ABA Urges CFPB To Scrap Debt Collection Survey (And They Did)
ABA Urges CFPB To Scrap Debt Collection Survey (And They Did)
December 20, 2017  |  Bank Regulation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under the leadership of Mick Mulvaney, has withdrawn its request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to...

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Joseph Otting Confirmed As Next OCC Head
Joseph Otting Confirmed As Next OCC Head
November 17, 2017  |  Bank Regulation

Joseph Otting, the former banking executive with close ties to Steve Mnuchin, the U.S. treasury secretary, was confirmed as the next U.S. Comptroller of the...

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Russian Fake News Seen By 126M Americans On Facebook
Russian Fake News Seen By 126M Americans On Facebook
October 30, 2017  |  International

They came. You saw.  They conquered … the election. (Maybe.) Turns out that as many as 126 million Americans, accounting for a third of the nation’s...

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Voice Sizzles, Equifax Fizzles And Social Security Numbers Get Ready For A Curtain Call
Voice Sizzles, Equifax Fizzles And Social Security Numbers Get Ready For A Curtain Call
October 06, 2017  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Sizzle  Cyberattack insurance: The more headlines gather on data breaches, new (Equifax) and old (Yahoo), and the bad news keeps getting worse (both attacks have...

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Critics Of Trump’s SMB Tax Cut Plan Say SMBs Won’t Benefit
Critics Of Trump’s SMB Tax Cut Plan Say SMBs Won’t Benefit
September 29, 2017  |  B2B Payments

President Donald Trump revealed tax reform plans on Thursday (Sept. 28) intended to benefit small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S., a move that...

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Trump Blocks Chinese Acquisition Of Chip Maker
Trump Blocks Chinese Acquisition Of Chip Maker
September 14, 2017  |  Legal

The decision by President Donald Trump to block a Chinese fund’s takeover attempt of a U.S. semiconductor company may presage further vetoes of cross-border deals...

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