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The Community Reinvestment Act is often used as a tool to address a broad range of social problems. But the lawÂ's expanded purpose may distract banks from their primary mission of direct lending to low- and moderate-income communities.

GT Advanced Technologies has, for the third time, asked a court to push back the deadline for Apple Inc. to state its case for keeping secret the causes of GT Advanced’s bankruptcy.

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Bankers Warned: Big banks, be warned (again). In closed-door meetings Monday, Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo and New York Fed President William Dudley said big banks must clean up their acts, or face repercussions. Those consequences could include things like "performance bonds," limits on executive compensation and a central registry to track the hiring and firing of traders and other top finance officials, all of which were reported by the Wall Street...

Nearly a decade ago, attorney Laurie Selber Silverstein played a role in naming four new judges to sit on the Delaware bankruptcy bar in the largest expansion of the court’s history. Soon, Ms.

The federal government's unlawful sweep of Fannie and Freddie profits has sent a clear message to private capital: There's only downside to being the government's partner in a time of crisis.