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Google’s Connected Economy Efforts, Overshadowed By Antitrust Suit?

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But there are any number of ways legal actions can go, and here and abroad (particularly in the EU) there remains some speculation that Google may be reshaped, may be forced to break up — and in other cases, injunction loom. No one really knows what might happen across a legal saga that will play out over years.

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Data Dive, Rainy Days Edition: Fines, Misses And Video Game Money Laundering

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Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 According to a reports, the antitrust-regulating European Commission has been working for some time to stamp out fees that U.S. The European Commission further contends the fees and policy around them limits the competition across borders. percent fee on credit card payments.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

It was starting to happen but accelerated after the global financial crisis where regulators pushed for more transparency in distribution fees. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. We look in the UK where they have something called RDR. RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: Right.

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RBS Sued By SMEs For $1.5B

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The Royal Bank of Scotland is in hot water with small and medium-sized businesses, and reports on Monday (April 25) have put a price tag on those legal troubles. The GRG, now out of operation, is alleged to have forced bankruptcy on small and medium-sized businesses by misleading them and forcing higher fees on these customers.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

And so, as advisors look to leave these big enterprises and go independent, one of the biggest things we need to train them on is the distinction between compliance, legal, and risk. RITHOLTZ: Compliance, legal, and risk. So, it’s not a legally binding document, but it’s a goodwill problem, right? HAMBURGER: Exactly.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

Barry Ritholtz

Can I just tag along? They went to all the other exchanges and said, we’ll sell you this and we’ll keep a kind of licensing fee, but we don’t wanna run it. You, you wrote that the bankruptcy lawyers are gonna generate fees of a billion dollars. Advisor, lawyer and other fees. Real lawyer and other fees.

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Amazon Prompts USPS To Monetize The Mailbox

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The idea held a bit of a spotlight in a government report that bowed last week, and, as the Department of the Treasury noted, “the legal mailbox monopoly remains highly valuable. The fees it charges for mailbox access would have to be worth more than any customer attrition, and that outcome is far from certain.