SEC

Hackers hit Equifax motherlode; NYS agency boots Pakistani bank

09/08/17

Credit bureau says records of 143 million consumers were compromised; state agency penalizes Habib Bank for enabling terror financing.

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B of A executive spared any fine after bank's $415M penalty

09/01/17

William Tirrell, the former head of regulatory reporting at the bank's Merrill Lynch unit, negligently caused the firm to violate securities rules but will pay no penalty, the SEC says.

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Regulators are still mostly ignoring millennials

08/31/17

The largest generation of Americans is set to inherit over $59 trillion in assets, but the federal financial regulators are behind in hiring millennials and focusing on issues of concern to them.

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Hackers target digital currency buffs; JPM’s beneficence

08/22/17

Hackers are stealing enthusiasts’ phone numbers, then changing the passwords to clean out their financial accounts; bank makes pledge to human rights groups.

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P2P student lender gets financing; Bitcoin Cash surges

08/21/17

Prodigy Finance, a London-based graduate student lender, gets $240 million in new funding round; Bitcoin Cash value soars.

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CFPB Seeks $183.5M from Aequitas Capital for aiding for-profit college

08/17/17

Regulators reach a $183.5 million deal Thursday to get debt relief to 41,000 students of bankrupt Corinthian Colleges.

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Money laundering risk rises; bias charge at Goldman

08/17/17

Basel Institute says enforcement is the problem; wealth advisor says bank steered clients away from her to white colleagues and blocked her promotion.

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Another day, another Wells scandal; Virtual currency deals go on

08/08/17

Bank may have failed to refund insurance premiums to customers who repaid their auto loans early; digital coin offerings proceed despite warnings from SEC.

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SEC hasn't quashed blockchain innovation. Let's keep it that way

08/01/17

Digital blockchain tokens can be naked instruments for profit-sharing among investors, but other types are directly linked to building network infrastructure. Their creation and sale must be unimpeded by regulation.

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SEC takes jab at startups while leaving the big banks alone

07/31/17

The agency’s new classification of “initial coin offerings” is yet another affront to the efforts by fledgling companies to raise funds.

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