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Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposal to Publish Periodic List of Depository Institutions That Have Access to Federal...

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On November 4, the Federal Reserve invited public comment on a proposal to publish a periodic list of depository institutions that have access to Federal Reserve and payment services. These accounts are often referred to as...more

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CFPB Director Announces Focus on "Reigning in Repeat Offenders"

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On March 28, Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, gave a speech at the University of Pennsylvania Law School titled "Reigning in Repeat Offenders." The gist of the speech was that certain...more

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Focus on Fintech: CFPB Probes Big Tech Plans for Payments

On October 21, 2021, the CFPB sent orders to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square requiring them to provide information about their current and planned payments products, practices, and data collection and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.1.2021 | Top Story: Zoom Ends $15B Bid to Acquire Five9 Over Regulatory Scrutiny

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Zoom and Five9 are walking away from their proposed $15 billion deal for lack of Five9 shareholder support. Zoom’s acquisition “had drawn national security scrutiny” over funding links to China...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.2.2021 | Top Story: NY Judge Provisionally Approves Purdue Pharma Dissolution, Sackler Liability Shield

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A New York federal bankruptcy judge provisionally approved an opioid settlement plan on Wednesday that will dissolve Purdue Pharma and require members of the Sackler family (which owns Purdue) to “turn over billions of their...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.01.2021 | Top Story: Jury Selection Begins in Long-Awaited Elizabeth Holmes Fraud Trial

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Dispatch #1 from the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos criminal fraud trial, which opened yesterday with jury selection and saw the excusing of 9 of the initial batch of about 50 potential jurors for lack of vaccination...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.29.2021 | Top Story: Judge Dismisses FTC and States’ Antitrust Actions Against Facebook

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On Monday, D.C. District Judge James Boasberg granted Facebook’s motion to dismiss the antitrust lawsuits filed by the Federal Trade Commission and 40+ states in “a stunning setback to regulators’ efforts to break up...more

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CFPB Proposes Mortgage Servicing Changes; Supreme Court Weighs in on TCPA

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In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continued to be active under its new leadership this week, warning mortgage servicers to prepare now for an anticipated surge of homeowners needing assistance...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.16.2021 | Top Story: WTO Names First Woman, First African as Org President

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After more than half a year without a leader, the WTO is poised to welcome its “first woman and first African” to the role in the form of Nigerian economist and former finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. ...more

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Compliance News Flash - December 2020 #1

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, which includes current news briefs relevant to background screening, immigration and data privacy, for the benefit and interest of our...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.16.2020 | Top Story: WTO Finds U.S.’s 2018 Tariffs on China Broke Trade Rules

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A World Trade Organization panel on Tuesday declared that the U.S.’s 2018 tariffs on China “violated international trade rules,” siding with China and its allegations that the White House’s trade war broke, among other...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.8.2020 | Top Story: Deutsche Bank to Pay $150 Million Over Epstein-Related Failures

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German lender Deutsche Bank has reached a $150 million settlement with NY’s Department of Financial Services over its years long failure to “detect or prevent millions of dollars of suspicious transactions” from flowing...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.30.2020 | Top Story: Fed Holds Rates Near Zero, Pledges to Use All of its Tools to Protect US Economy

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The Fed closed out its April Open Markets Committee by holding rates steady at nearly zero but also pledging to “use its ‘full range of tools’ to insulate the economy as coronavirus lockdowns sap economic growth and throw...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.14.2020 | Top Story: SoftBank warns of likely $17 billion loss for its tech-focused Vision Fund

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All is not coming up aces for Masa Son and his faltering SoftBank empire, which warned investors on Monday of a coming $16.7 billion loss to its landmark Vision Fund, the tech-focused venture that’s been hammered by “the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.10.2020 | Top Story: US Markets Dive Again in Worst Trading Day Since 2008

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Monday on Wall Street was the equivalent of a well-forecast storm that still managed to blow meteorologists’ minds. The deadly combination of diving oil prices and yet more COVID-19 worries spelled disaster for U.S. markets,...more

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Compliance News Flash - February 2020 #1

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, which includes current news briefs relevant to background screening, immigration and data privacy, for the benefit and interest of our...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.13.2019 | Top Story: US Announces Phase One Trade Agreement With China, But No Confirmation From Chinese

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The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.7.2019 | Top Story: Talks Between GM and UAW Falter as Strike Hits Fourth Week

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Talks between General Motors and the striking UAW broke down yesterday, threatening the progress the two sides “appeared to make in recent days,” a troubling sign as the strike heads into its 4th week....more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.10.2019 | Top Story: Activist Investor Singer Discloses Stake in AT&T and Pushes for Change

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Paul Singer’s Elliott Management hedge fund revealed a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T and, along with it, a healthy-skepticism of the company’s 2018 purchase of Time Warner and general calls to divest as part of a 24-page letter...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.26.2019 | Top Story: In a reversal, ECB to revive stimulus measures to boost EU economy

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The European Central Bank announced on Thursday that is likely to revive the quantitative easing program aimed at “pump[ing] money into the region’s financial system,” a major reversal from just 6 months ago, when the ECB...more

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Regional lenders BB&T and SunTrust have announced plans to “unite in an all-stock deal” that would value the combined bank at $66 billion. The new lender would be the sixth-largest in the US, and, if allowed, would be created...more

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All of that SuperBowling seems to have put activist investor Starboard in the mood for some pizza—specifically, former NFL-partner Papa John’s, which has struggled in the wake of the removal of its founder and namesake John...more

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The Federal Reserve, as long forecast, raised its benchmark interest rate a quarter point on Wednesday. Chair Powell noted that a downturn in financial markets and weakened financial growth “may signal some softening relative...more

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We’ve been keeping tabs on the high-profile CEOs who have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia’s coming investment conference over the past few weeks. But pulling out the conference is very different from severing ties with the...more

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Facebook’s disappointing Q2 earnings (and, presumably, some pent-up scandal-fueled anti-‘Book sentiment) sent its stock into freefall yesterday, erasing more than $120 billion from the company’s market value as shares dove...more

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