2020-11-12
The head of the agency told a congressional panel that the agency is taking steps to prepare for the incoming Biden administration and that she plans to serve until her tenure ends in 2023.
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2020-11-12
The fintech startup, which originally helped users cancel duplicate subscriptions, now wants to encourage healthier financial practices.
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2020-11-12
Lending opportunities have become scarce, especially with commercial borrowers, and banks are resisting the temptation to relax standards to boost volume.
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2020-11-12
As it attempts to craft policy on access to consumers’ financial account information, the agency is wading into a battle between those who want data to flow more freely and those who prioritize security.
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2020-11-12
Wells Fargo is exploring selling a unit offering store-branded credit cards as the bank chooses businesses to keep or break off in a broad strategic overhaul, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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2020-11-12
The deal, intended to bolster CUNA Mutual's digital capabilities, is the company's second such move in a month.
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2020-11-12
Tina Sbrega, who has been a pioneer in areas including pot banking and credit unions buying banks, will stay on as chair of a subsidiary of the institution.
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2020-11-12
The response exceeded expectations, with more than 1,600 Citi customers requesting a name-change on their cards within the first few weeks of the program.
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2020-11-12
The growing number of defaults is raising concerns that banks will tighten credit, making a bad situation worse; most of the 500 members are academics and Obama White House staffers.
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2020-11-12
A contentious presidential contest and social justice protests have forced employers to consider whether these types of topics should be discussed in the workplace.
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2020-11-12
As noted in prior Alerts, in its order issued April 20, 2020, the Indiana Supreme Court exercised its emergency rule-making authority to order that all Indiana trial courts “shall issue no new orders placing a hold on, attaching, or garnishing fun
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2020-11-11
Big financial institutions are worried that online wagers made with credit cards pose a heavy risk of money laundering. The possibility of tougher rules under the incoming Biden administration has only compounded their concerns.
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2020-11-11
Bill Bynum, president and CEO of Hope Federal Credit Union, and Gail Laster, former director of the National Credit Union Administration's consumer protection division, are working with the incoming administration.
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2020-11-11
The Toronto parent of BMO Harris Bank has joined a growing list of banks directing billions of dollars toward affordable housing and loans to low- and moderate-income communities.
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2020-11-11
JPMorgan Chase dropped one rung on the Financial Stability Board’s annual rankings of systemically important banks to sit alongside Citigroup and HSBC Holdings as one of the world’s three most important banks.
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2020-11-11
Scammers may have had more success at duping fintechs than banks in obtaining Paycheck Protection Program loans. But there are reasons for this apparent disparity.
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