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Wells Fargo Gets Called Out for Lax Crime Prevention

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Watchdogs have been badgering Wells Fargo about its lackadaisical approach to monitoring and preventing financial crimes.

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Power Corridor

What’s Afoot At the FDIC?

It’s not every day that you wake up to headlines about one of the nation’s most staid-and-storied institutions – really, the cornerstone upon…

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Patent Drop

JPMorgan Chase Fuels AI Ambitions With New Patent

JPMorgan Chase wants to be the finance industry’s AI frontrunner, filing patent after patent to secure its AI tech portfolio.

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Banking

Banking’s Fantastic Four Grab a Bigger Share of Industry Profits

Of the roughly 4,400 operating banks in the US, nearly half of all banking profits in the third quarter came from just four.

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Finance

Berkshire Hathaway Has Built a Massive Mountain of Cash

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Berkshire Hathaway’s third-quarter earnings report on Saturday revealed how Warren Buffett weathered the past three months.

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SBF’s Own Words Prove His Downfall

For Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, it is safe to say his gift of gab – which briefly…

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Power Corridor

Fed’s Tea Leaves Get Murkier

The U.S. Federal Reserve is all but certain to hold interest rates steady Wednesday, but the economy is still scorching – beating expectations in…

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Banking

Low Deal Flow Means Lower Bonuses for Wall Street

After 10 months of slower-than-anticipated deal flow, bankers are expecting less-than-stellar year-end holiday bonuses.

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Markets

Homebuilders Feel the Squeeze of Tight Housing Market

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Shares of leading US homebuilders have plummeted since an industry-wide peak in July, according to a Financial Times analysis.

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Banking

UK Abolishes Cap on Bankers’ Bonuses

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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday that it’s ending a cap on bonuses for bankers that’s been in place since 2014.

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