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While a new price transparency rule is aimed at helping consumers shop around for services, it isn't without challenges.

Coindesk | Nikhilesh De | Jan 4, 2020 The federal banking regulator published an interpretive letter addressing whether national banks and federal savings associations could participate in independent node verification networks (INVNs, otherwise known as blockchain networks) or use stablecoins. The letter said that these financial institutions can participate as nodes on a blockchain and

Tuesday's U.S. Senate election in Georgia could be a make-or-break moment for the $2,000 stimulus check proposal.

Morningstar | John Rekenthaler | Jan 4, 2020 The SEC releases the results of its investigation Something for Nothing? One wondered about Robinhood’s business model. The discount brokerage, which debuted in 2015, gives away trades. How, then, could the firm earn its keep? According to Robinhood’s early disclosure, its revenues came from two channels: 1) convincing customers

Financial Post | Kevin Carmichael | Jan 5, 2020 The recovery's pace will be determined by entrepreneurs, executives and investors — groups that for years have been reluctant to leave the sidelines Eyes roll on Bay Street when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers describe old-fashioned government spending as “investment,” but Ottawa has

The U.S. has lost at least $36 billion to unemployment fraud since the spring. The new Covid relief law clamps down, but may harm workers in the process.

Financial Post | Kevin Carmichael | Jan 5, 2020 The recovery's pace will be determined by entrepreneurs, executives and investors — groups that for years have been reluctant to leave the sidelines Eyes roll on Bay Street when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers describe old-fashioned government spending as “investment,” but Ottawa has

CPO Magazine | Alicia Hope | Jan 4, 2020 While the SolarWinds hack primarily targeted in-house infrastructure, the breach has morphed into a multidimensional assault on key computing infrastructure, including cloud services. The SolarWinds supply chain attack, which was broad in scope and sophisticated in nature and execution, could affect popular cloud-based services provided by key players,

Vitalik Buterin | Dec 28, 2020 I'm writing this sitting in Singapore, the city in which I've now spent nearly half a year of uninterrupted time - an unremarkable duration for many, but for myself the longest I've stayed in any one place for nearly a decade. After months of fighting what may perhaps even

The company is backed by Blackstone, Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman.

The year 2021 begins as an apparent hybrid of 2010 (early-cycle recovery), 1999 (late-cycle risk binge) and the early-1940s.

The year 2021 begins as an apparent hybrid of 2010 (early-cycle recovery), 1999 (late-cycle risk binge) and the early-1940s.

CATO Institute | Jennifer J. Schulp | Jan 4, 2020 Are you “dumb money?” I am. You probably are too. Wall Street institutions — so‐​called “smart money” — usually throw around the phrase to describe investment activity they don’t like. And by “dumb money,” they usually mean individual, or “retail,” investors. Retail investors are big news

FN | Bérengère Sim | Jan 4, 2020 On 6 October, the City regulator had banned the sale of crypto products to retail investors in the UK, saying that the “extreme volatility” of cryptocurrencies made them “ill-suited” for retail customers, as well as the prevalence of market abuse and financial crime in the secondary market.

LabCFTC | Release | Dec 17, 2020 Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today released a Digital Assets Primer to provide updated information to the public about emerging concepts in digital assets. The primer is part of a series issued by the CFTC’s innovation office, LabCFTC, and is the second to delve into issues