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If You Love PayPal, Set It Free: The split between eBay and PayPal appears to be the celebrity breakup of the business world, prompting excited speculation and in-depth analysis. eBay says the payments landscape has changed significantly in recent months and that the companies' parting of ways will "free PayPal to more easily reach agreements with companies that compete with eBay's online marketplace," thereby eliminating potential conflicts of interest, the Wall Street...

It is tempting to believe we can avoid another crisis by giving regulators additional controls over the financial markets. A more effective approach would be to acknowledge regulators' limits.

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eBay and PayPal to Split: The online marketplace said this morning it would spin off its payments unit, a move activist investor Carl Icahn had been pushing. Wall Street Journal, New York Times Receiving Wide Coverage ...

AIG and the Meaning of 'Many': A lawsuit that accuses the U.S. government of unfairly penalizing AIG shareholders in the terms of its 2008 bailout of the insurer got underway Monday. David Boies, a lawyer for...

In the recent decision of Caspian Select Credit Master Fund, Ltd. v. Key Plastics Corp., Inc., C.A. No. 8625-VCN (Del. Ch. Sept. 3, 2014), the Court analyzed whether categories of documents requested by Caspian, the minority shareholder of Key Plastics, were “narrowly  tailored” to a proper purpose.

More banks are competing for underserved customers and working to understand millennials as a group that's full of potential, according to speakers at a recent American Banker conference.