Not exact matches
Some privacy advocates have
charged that the app's ability to glean information on all those users that never installed it violated the terms of a 2011
settlement agreement Facebook struck with the Federal
Trade Commission.
The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million
settlement after the Federal
Trade Commission
charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.
Settlement final: The Federal
Trade Commission gave final approval of an agreement settling
charges against Abbott Laboratories that it conspired with others not to advertise its infant formula through the mass media.
The businesses,
charged with violations by the Federal
Trade Commission, were later banned from operating, in a
settlement reached with the federal agency.
The Authors Guild is objecting a proposed
settlement between the Justice Department and three publishers over
charges of price fixing in the electronic book
trade.
looks like some brokers
charge large «foreign
settlement» fees to
trade OTC foreign stocks, but not ADR's (e.g. tradeking = 75 $).
First and foremost, thanks to a 2010 Federal
Trade Commission law, debt collection agencies are prohibited from
charging upfront
settlement fees.
Members of the American Fair Credit Council, a
trade organization representing debt
settlement firms, must agree to the council's code of conduct, which include complying with all applicable state and federal laws, conducting services in good faith, and
charging «fair and reasonable» fees.
Charging triple swap on Wednesday roll - over period accounts for the
settlement of
trades over the weekend, as swap rates are not
charged during this period due to the market being closed.
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settlement investments, and stocks.
States, feds target debt
settlement legal firms over upfront fees — When the Federal
Trade Commission banned upfront fees for debt
settlement firms, a funny thing happened: More law firms suddenly began offering debt
settlement services — and
charging upfront fees... (See Debt
settlement legal firms)
Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal
charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency
trading probe that ended in a $ 150m
settlement.
Lenovo reached a $ 3.5 m (# 2.7 m)
settlement Tuesday (5 September) with the US Federal
Trade Commission and 32 state attorneys general over
charges related to malicious Superfish adware that came pre-installed...
VTech Electronics agreed to a $ 650,000
settlement payment and sanctions by the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve
charges it...
A company that compiled and sold criminal record reports has entered into a
settlement agreement with the Federal
Trade Commission as a result of
charges that it operated as a consumer reporting agency without taking consumer protection measures required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
More than 450,000 borrowers who took out mortgages with Countrywide Financial Corp. will soon receive refund checks as part of a $ 108 million
settlement over claims that the lender
charged high fees to borrowers facing foreclosure, the Federal
Trade Commission reports.
An industry
trade association representing Federally - charted credit unions asserted that the proposed definition of changed circumstances should be expanded to include situations where the consumer increases the down payment amount because it is very likely that
settlement charges will change as a result of the increase in the down payment amount.
A
trade association representing
settlement agents and the title insurance industry and various law firm commenters suggested that, without the role of an independent review or preparation of the Closing Disclosure by the
settlement agent, creditors could misstate the
charges of third parties, and that third parties are unable to correct such mistakes.