Morning Scan: Deutsche's Big-Data Fraud Approach, BlackRock...

Wall Street Journal

"One Firm Getting What It Wants in Washington: BlackRock." That's the head on a piece in the Journal that looks at how the largest asset manager (by far) has worked the system to avoid the SIFI designation (for now).

Venture funding for lending startups has dried up during the first quarter of 2016 ($298 million vs. $832 in the last quarter of 2015), and Silicon Valley is now putting its money behind firms that...