Barclays snags BuzzFeed's top data scientist for global research

05/17/18

Barclays hired Adam Kelleher from BuzzFeed to build a new global team of data scientists to support the company's research department.

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With help from fintech, JPMorgan opens asset management to masses

05/17/18

The bank, in conjunction with iCapital Network, is slashing requirements to participate in certain alternative investments that it once offered mainly to institutions or the ultrarich.

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Banks turn to blockchain; commercial loan growth

05/17/18

JPMorgan and Santander show off their uses for the technology; commercial and industrial loans outstanding are rising.

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The real fight over CFPB's payday rule is just beginning

05/16/18

It's too late for Congress to overturn the consumer bureau's regulation on short-term lending, but acting Director Mick Mulvaney will have plenty of chances to reshape it.

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From overdraft to HMDA, rulemaking has new look at Mulvaney’s CFPB

05/16/18

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney has dropped agency plans to crack down on overdraft programs and large marketplace lenders. Here's what else he's changing.

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New Equifax CEO vows to keep banks in the loop

05/16/18

Mark Begor said Wednesday that banks and other customers will receive regular updates on the credit reporting agency’s efforts to improve its cybersecurity in the wake of last year’s massive data breach.

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Fed weighs easing how foreign banks in U.S. must gird for crisis

05/16/18

The Federal Reserve should think about dialing back its demand that foreign banks in the U.S. have an especially amplified ability to absorb losses, Vice Chairman Randal Quarles said at a Wednesday conference.

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BlackRock's savings app gambit: Build it, or millennials won't come

05/16/18

There's no reason that today's millennial-friendly microinvesting apps can't switch focus from spare change to real assets, industry executives warn.

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Square's Dorsey is all in on bitcoin as currency of the future

05/16/18

Jack Dorsey, speaking to a crowd of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, showed he was completely in sync with their view that digital currencies are the way of the future.

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Watch out: That may be a scam set up by ... regulators?

05/16/18

The Securities and Exchange Commission is pitching a fake initial coin offering to educate investors on the pitfalls of too-good-to-be-true ventures.

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