CFPB Issues Payday Lending Rule: Will it Hold, as the Empire Will Strike Back
How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
Read more...How big a victory is the CFPB’s new payday lending rule for consumers of financial services? And will it hold– as the industry fights back.
Read more...Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Trump’s latest giveaway: a massive subsidy to coal and nuclear plant operators via unnecessary and costly electricity backup requirements.
Read more...Surrendering biometric information and fancy technology provide no panacea for the problems revealed by the Equifax hack.
Read more...CalPERS keeps digging its election hole even deeper.
Read more...Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...UN resolution calls for use of financial investigation techniques, among other measures, to crack down on illicit wildlife trafficking.
Read more...CalPERS’ election procedures would embarrass any self-respecting banana republic.
Read more...Occupy SEC calls out OCC nonsense on need to reform– gut– the Volcker Rule’s proprietary trading limits for TBTF banks. Will anyone listen?
Read more...Cybersecurity is much in today’s news, but it’s not the only source of scams– which are much more omnipresent than in the past.
Read more...SEC joins Equifax in reporting its own cybersecurity breach. Failure to safeguard information is not a problem unique to the private sector.
Read more...Some California Republican legislators are breaking ranks and beginning to embrace modest pro-regulatory positions on climate change.
Read more...Several government agencies and at least 34 state attorneys general have opened probes into the Equifax data-breach scandal–‘the gift that keeps on giving,’ says Bill Black.
Read more...Google got hit with a huge EU fine and faces even bigger charges for non-compliance. So why is it playing hardball?
Read more...A look at some of the forces out to undermine the FDA.
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