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FTC Calls For Tighter Small Biz Lending Scrutiny

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eyeing tighter scrutiny of small business lending practices as Commissioner Rohit Chopra calls on the regulator to combat predatory SMB loan contracts, reports in Bloomberg said on Wednesday (May 8). Chopra spoke at an agency forum in Washington, D.C.,

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First Data And Exec To Pay $40M To Settle FTC Fraud Case

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million to settle allegations that they laundered credit card transactions for scams targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday (May 19). Payments processing giant First Data Merchant Services and one of its executives will pay $40.3

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MoneyGram To Settle With FTC For $125M

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday (Nov. According to the FTC , the company violated the settlement struck in 2012 that stemmed from charges that the company had aided and abetted wire fraud. The investigation leading up to that settlement stretched from 2003 to 2009 and focused on agents in the U.S.

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Betting On A Big Mall Fizzle

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The index and the securities, the report said, are in turn tied to loans made in 2012. The Department of Justice, in looking at Facebook and Google, may look beyond antitrust violations and examine public safety, privacy, and consumer protection. Big Tech: The investigations into Big Tech are gathering steam and multiplying.