Tag: Regulations

Kathleen Kraninger testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing.

Finance and Economy

CFPB proposes undoing major part of Obama-era payday lending rule

Colin Wilhelm · February 6, 2019 5:23 pm

A truck drives into the Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia, Calif.

Energy and Environment

Oil refiners get behind UN fuel rules that analysts say will drive up prices in 2020

John Siciliano · February 2, 2019 5:00 am

The FCC has already moved to weaken the broadband privacy rules. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Who needs net neutrality when the Internet is working just fine?

Demri Scott · February 2, 2019 5:00 am

Goldman Sachs is joining a Republican-backed group promoting a carbon tax to address climate change.

1MDB scandal prompts Goldman to delay bonus for longtime CEO Blankfein

James Langford · February 1, 2019 11:14 pm

Events leading to General Electric Co.'s $6.2 billion charge for insurance liabilities are being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

GE to pay $1.5 billion to settle Justice investigation of high-risk mortgages

James Langford · January 31, 2019 3:41 pm

A person smokes a Juul e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York on Sunday, July 8, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The FDA is on a mission to ‘protect’ you from harmless products

Patrick Hedger · January 25, 2019 1:30 pm

Proposed drone rule raises privacy concerns

Diana Stancy Correll · January 25, 2019 5:00 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and D-N.Y., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, walk down the House steps to take a group photograph of the House Democratic women members of the 116th Congress on the East Front Capitol Plaza on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, as the 116th Congress begins. Also pictured is Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., right.

Beltway Confidential

Climate change is happening. The ‘Green New Deal’ does nothing to stop it

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 23, 2019 8:50 pm

A woman holds a placard and walks to join a protest against a spate of violent attacks across the country targeting the country's Muslim minority, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Carrying placards that said "not in my name," the protesters on Wednesday decried the silence of India's Hindu right-wing government in the face of the public lynchings and violent attacks on at least a dozen Muslim men and boys since it came to power in 2014.

WhatsApp curtails message-forwarding worldwide after India lynchings

James Langford · January 21, 2019 10:49 pm

Some of the Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues, released by members of the U.S. House Intelligence committee, are photographed in Washington, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. The ads, dozens of which were disclosed for the first time, were released as representatives of leading social media companies faced criticism on Capitol Hill about why they hadn't done more to combat Russian interference on their sites and prevent foreign agents from meddling in last year's election.

Facebook has made fundamental changes since 2016 election, Sandberg says

James Langford · January 21, 2019 5:36 pm

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Tuesday.

Senators push bill to guard Americans’ data after Facebook, Equifax scandals

James Langford · January 18, 2019 4:33 pm

New Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Director Kathy Kraninger speaks to media at the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection offices in Washington, D.C.

CFPB asks Congress to give it the power over military lenders that Mulvaney said it didn’t have

Colin Wilhelm · January 18, 2019 12:12 am