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It has also opened questions about the extent to which federal regulators should police industries fueled by personal data.

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Now, thanks to tough new mortgage lending and insurance rules announced by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau in October, some analysts predict that so - called «shadow banking» firms, which operate largely outside the purview of regulators, will see a surge of fresh business from frustrated homebuyers who can't get conventional loans.

Federal regulators, which review contracts made by USPS, have not raised any issues with the terms of its contract with Amazon.

Japan's SoftBank, which fought Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) to buy Sprint, now just needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. telecommunications regulator, to close the deal.

The federal banking regulator's tougher rules, which took effect Jan. 1, now require a stress test to be applied even to borrowers with more than 20 per cent down payment.

Walgreens, which operates about 8,000 U.S. stores, had proposed to sell off hundreds of stores to regional rival Fred's (fred) to mollify regulators, but many media reports suggested the Federal Trade Commission was not convinced that the plan would do enough to preserve competition.

«The wireless industry has done everything it can to persuade federal regulators and state regulators not to require that backup power be put in place,» said Regina Costa, chair of the telecommunications committee of the National Association of State Utility Advocates, which speaks for consumer representatives.

Lending Club, which went public in 2014, has seen its share price drop in recent months, and like the rest of the alternative lending industry, faces the prospect of increased scrutiny from federal regulators.

There are five reasons why this project stands a better chance of coming to fruition than rival Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline, which is due for a ruling by federal regulators before month - end.

The difficult legal choices being weighed by the bank — should it settle or should it fight — coincide with an unusual wave of scrutiny for JPMorgan, which is now facing investigations from at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign nations.

Federal legislation could help rationalize this patchwork and clarify which agency has the authority to police the underlying virtual currency cash market, the regulators said.

Moreover, this latest action from the Swiss regulator may have been influenced by the recent visit of Johann Schneider - Ammann, Swiss federal councilor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency developmefederal councilor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency developmeFederal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency development hub.

The Office of Investor Education carries out the SEC's investor education program, which includes producing and distributing educational materials, participating in educational seminars and investor - oriented events, and partnering with federal agencies, state regulators, and others on investor literacy initiatives.

For the past two years federal regulators have issued subpoenas and scrutinized relationships between drug companies and the charities, which are supposed to operate independently from industry donors.

Practically every company that goes public these days first files to do so under the JOBS Act, a federal law which gives companies that meet certain criteria the ability to file confidentially while regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review its documents without subjecting them to public scrutiny.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to name the Federal Reserve as the primary regulator for the «Volcker Rule,» which bars banks from speculative trading.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Regulators Investigate Napa, Sonoma Wineries and Distributors for Illegal Trade Practices Federal and state agents visited more than 30 wine - related businesses in Napa and Sonoma counties last week as part of a probe into consignment sales, in which a winery or wholesaler buys back bottles that don't -LSB-...]

Following this opposition from the regulator, AGL instituted proceedings in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that the proposed acquisition would not infringe s 50 of the TPA, which prohibits mergers which substantially lessen competition.

The nation's top highway regulator said his agency is working with New York to create a pilot program for the I Love NY highway signs dotting the state's roadways, which the federal government has long said are illegal.

McCarthy wrote that there were extensive conversations between state and federal regulators in late 2015 to explain the risks of PFOA, which POLITICO has documented.

Cuomo has been skeptical of nuclear power elsewhere in the state, including the Entergy - owned Indian Point facility in Westchester County, which the governor has urged federal regulators to deny a new license for the plant.

SolarCity, which is moving forward with plans to open its massive solar panel factory in Buffalo's Riverbend neighborhood, is reportedly under investigation by federal regulators over customer contract cancellations.

The company had previously announced it would close the facility, which requires notification and review by state and federal regulators.

Federal regulators have approved General Electric's plan to dismantle a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant used during six years of dredging, which concluded this fall.

Giannoulias has seen his bid for the Senate rocked by the controversy over his family's bank, which was taken over by federal regulators earlier this year.

Federal regulators found that workers at the plant responded appropriately to the transformer fire, which was blamed on insulation failure.

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are warning railroads that they face penalties if they fail to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for the implementation of positive train control technology, which can prevent collisions and excessive speed by automatically slowing and stopping trains.

He said who gets which slots are determined by the airlines, airports and federal regulators.

Federal regulators approved the first direct - to - consumer test for the BRCA genes, which increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, the agency announced on Tuesday.

But federal regulators say Yates violates the national health standard for fine particles, which can lodge in lungs and trigger heart attacks and respiratory disease.

These are loans which should never have been allowed by federal regulators in the first place.

Federal regulators can write rules to reduce these harmful effects in a number of ways, including by limiting the size of overdraft fees, the frequency with which they can be incurred, or the overall cost.

There are multiple regulators of margin trading, the most important of which are the Federal Reserve Board, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

The Federal Reserve and other regulators were, and are, therefore required to guess which of the assertions of pending problems or allegations of misconduct should be subject to full scrutiny by, of necessity, a work force with limited examination capacity.

3) The state insurance regulators did a better job than the Federal banking regulators — the state regulators did not get captured by those that they regulated, and were more natively risk averse, which is the way regulators should be.

The Bismarck route also would have crossed an area considered by federal pipeline regulators as a «high consequence area,» which is an area determined to have the most significant adverse consequences in the event of a pipeline spill.

Perry has filed a proposed rulemaking that asks the federal regulators (two of which are Trump appointees, with an additional two more pending Senate approval) to approve of the rule in order to allow power market operators to establish a new tariff for power plants that have a 90 - day fuel supply on site — a naked nod to coal and nuclear plants.

Under the new rules, which the NEB put in place at the direction of the federal government in response to overwhelming opposition from the public during the NEB's review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, Ontario residents who live along the 639 - kilometre pipeline route and want to submit public comments about their concerns — are you ready for it — fill out a long and complex application to ask permissionfrom the NEB, Canada's pipeline regulator, before they can even submit a letter to the NEB on the Line 9 pipeline proposal.

Under the new rules, which the NEB put in place at the direction of the federal government in response to overwhelming opposition from the public during the NEB's review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, Ontario residents who live along the 639 - kilometre pipeline route and want to submit public comments about their concerns — are you ready for it — fill out a long and complex application to ask permission from the NEB, Canada's pipeline regulator, before they can even submit a letter to the NEB on the Line 9 pipeline proposal.

«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»

In light of a recent safety announcement by the federal Food and Drug Administration, U.S. regulators are reviewing the safety of the diabetes medication, Avandia, which is made by GlaxoSmithKline.

In Canada, there are a number of federal and provincial key pieces of legislation and regulators that govern the collection, use and storage of data such as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, which is the federal privacy law for private - sector organizations or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

They're capable of handling the often overlapping internal investigations, which usually originate from the various derivative actions or investigations instituted by the Securities Exchange Commission and other state and federal regulators or FINRA.

The Federal Court of Appeal does not clarify the extent to which CIP can extend beyond commercial transactions to other types of common endeavours — such as, for example, to protect the sharing of SCP information between two parties pursuing a law reform initiative, or seeking to persuade a regulator.

On Wednesday, the FDIC finalized restrictions on qualified financial contracts (QFCs) of state - chartered non-Fed-member banks for which the FDIC is the primary federal regulator (FSIs).

It was a chance for the private sector and federal and state regulators to get together to talk about the future, in which human driving becomes passé and driverless cars become the dominant form of transportation.

Federal regulators are investigating to see if Facebook violated a settlement in 2011, which forced the company to undergo regular privacy screenings for 20 years.

On Wednesday an explosive Wall Street Journal report revealed that the SEC had sent subpoenas to «scores» of ICO operators in a broad probe aimed at policing the nascent ICO fundraising industry, which regulators allege has been used to circumvent federal regulations.