As President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders continue to gut federal programs, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) are urging U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to p...
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The Tipped Employee Protection Act of 2025 would amend the Federal Labor Standards Act to remove interpretive language in the definition of a tipped employee. It also would restrict judges or bureaucr...
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Corporate and industry leaders from the financial services, energy and technology sectors are urging Congress to reauthorize the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act before it expires on Sept. 30. ...
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will no longer examine its regulated institutions for reputation risk and have removed references to reputation risk from its handbooks and guidance...
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule that eliminates the requirement for U.S. companies and persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI). Speci...
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a default judgement against Debiex Friday, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The order found Debiex liable fo...
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Mississippi-based BankFirst Capital Corp., the parent company of BankFirst Financial Services, and Mississippi-based The Magnolia State Corp., recently signed a definitive merger agreement. Under t...
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MISMO, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, is seeking public comment on the Loan Boarding Data Segment. The Loan Boarding Data Segment (LBDS) is the first published subset of...
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Chicago-based CME Group Inc. plans to launch a second BrokerTec central limit order book (CLOB) for cash U.S. Treasuries during the third quarter, the financial services company said March 20. The ...
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SmartBiz has acquired United Community Bancshares and its subsidiary, Centrust Bank, a Chicago-based community bank. The combined company will be renamed SmartBiz Bank and operate under the bank h...
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