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It also plans to deploy the startup’s technology that analyzes data and offers predictive advice.

The AskResearch virtual assistant helps the company's employees quickly find specific information buried in proprietary research to facilitate their work with clients. It's a creative solution to data-retrieval problems many banking companies face.

Letitia James, attorney general of New York

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced new state legislation to ban unfair and abusive business practices, giving state regulators broader authority to crack down on consumer abuses.

BankThink of new CFPB proposed regulations

An error in data submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about consumers with no credit record — known as "credit invisibles" — has skewed the agency's reports, showing that the number of Americans without credit histories is half what it was thought to be.

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors voted Wednesday to reappoint 11 sitting regional Fed presidents, without any dissents. The move precludes any effort the White House might have made to pressure the board to deny reappointments.

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