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Trump says the U.S. government may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela’s infrastructure Big oil firms will either “get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” Trump told NBC News in an exclusive interview. President Donald Trump said he believes the U.S. oil industry could get expanded operations in Venezuela “up and running” in fewer than …
The second-largest US bank by total assets says it’s preparing for significant losses due to ongoing regulatory issues. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bank of America says it faces a “reasonably possible and estimable” loss of up to $800 million due to investigations from the Consumer Financial Protection …
The Federal Reserve’s FraudClassifier divides fraud into two categories: authorized fraud and its unauthorized counterpart. Authorized fraud occurs when a legitimate party initiates a payment only to have a bad actor intervene and hijack the funds. Unauthorized fraud, on the other hand, happens when bad actors initiate or redirect a payment through an account takeover …
JPMorgan Chase is saying tough luck to a customer after the bank handed tens of thousands of dollars over to an imposter with a fake ID. Justin Lee says he lost $30,000 after a man with false identification and an incorrect social security number walked into a Chase branch and convinced the bank to hand …