Dozens of China's state regulators, bankers and finance chiefs have come under the scanner of corruption as the crackdown intensified in the new year.

China's top anti-corruption agency, the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, said in a statement on its website Thursday that Lu was being investigated for “serious violations of party discipline and law” — a familiar euphemism for corruption. Lu was in charge of dealing with bad loans at the bank until he retired in 2017. According to […]

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2020 Diversity Data for Regulated Banks, Non-Depository Institutions, and Insurance Companies

DFS has made public aggregate gender and racial/ethnic data of board members and senior management of regulated banks, non-depository institutions and insurance companies. The 2020 data was collected in 2021 after the department requested gender, racial and ethnic and diversity data from New York regulated banks, non-depository institutions and insurance companies. Data were collected from […]

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San Bernardino Finance Director Barbara Whitehorn claims the city manager fired her after raising cost concerns about the project

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) — The former finance director for the city of San Bernardino alleges that after raising concerns about the potential cost of a project to renovate the old City Hall building, the current city manager threatened and fired him. Barbara Whitehorn made the allegations during the public comment portion of the May […]

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Bitcoin goes from fringe asset to presidential talking point

Bitcoin has emerged as an issue in the 2024 campaign for US President. AFP via Getty Images (Full disclosure: I'm helping build coinbits.appA Bitcoin Banking Platform.) In an ever-evolving landscape of political campaigns, where traditional issues like foreign policy and culture wars have come to dominate, a new player has emerged with impressive force: Bitcoin. […]

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