The privately held Oracle America Inc., has been fighting an industry-changing copyright infringement case against Google Inc. since 2010 -- the same year of the BP Oil Spill, the year Apple unveiled ...
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The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council are among several groups asking President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to index capital gains to inflation. In a letter to Trum...
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Twenty-one senators, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), are currently asking the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect data on the economic costs of sexual harassment in the labor force. ...
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The U.S. House passed this week the Senior Safe Act, which is designed to help protect American seniors from financial exploitation and fraud. The legislation, authored by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME...
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The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) released this week its list of top policy priorities for 2018, as a means of continuing industry momentum gained last year. RILA officials said the 20...
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill last week that would expand the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Microloan Program, which provides loans and technical assistance to women ...
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Insurance groups throughout North America issued a joint statement last week stating that they are strong supporters of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “[The organizations] reaff...
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To get more eligible working families to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is promoting EITC Awareness Day on Jan. 26, 2018. “E...
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) recently expressed support for President Trump’s promise to enforce trade rules while also asserting Chinese steel overcapacity is an urgent priority. “President Trump...
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Several companies in Nevada are giving their employees bonuses and raises in response to the federal tax reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV). Heller s...
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) met its European counterparts to strengthen the relationship between the U.S. and European Union (EU) insurance industries. At the fifth ...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) extended the effective date of its 2016 prepaid rule by one year to April 2019 and finalized other changes. The prepaid rule set guidelines on how t...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is currently seeking comment from companies on how it handles its enforcement investigations. In a Request for Information (RFI) about the bureau’s...
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Losses due to fraud in the banking industry rose to $2.2 billion in 2016, up 16 percent from 2014, according to the latest American Bankers Association (ABA) Deposit Account Fraud Survey Report. De...
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A coalition of 43 community bank associations is urging the U.S. Senate to pass bipartisan legislation providing regulatory relief for community banks. The coalition, which is affiliated with the ...
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A recently released National Small Business Administration (NSBA) Office of Advocacy report revealed small business lending has not recovered since the financial crisis. The report details how new ...
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Terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would carry a net loss of 1.8 million U.S. jobs within the first year, according to a study published by the Business Roundtable. The st...
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At the American Bankers Association’s Banking Law Conference in Washington, D.C. last week, Randal Quarles, vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, called for more effi...
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William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, offered up an optimistic view of the U.S. economy in 2018, speaking at SIFMA’s U.S. Economic Outlook conference in January. ...
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A recently released report revealed the financial impact of worldwide weather disasters in 2017 carried a record price tag of $344 billion. The Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2017 Annual R...
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