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A group of House Republicans led by Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., said that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn't have the authority to hold information discussions with the bureau's European Union counterparts.

Todor Penev is SVP, commercial analytics practice leader, Aon.

Janet Faircloth is SVP of the health innovation team at Aon.

BofA is the first large Wall Street bank to officially reverse its call amid growing optimism about the economic outlook.

Despite healthy second-quarter revenue growth, PayPal's stock fell Thursday amid higher-than-expected losses from merchant loans.

Despite big talk months ago, experts don't see a lot of political appetite to change bank oversight rules — or the deposit insurance system — in the wake of three large regional bank failures that happened earlier this year.

Melissa Bailey is a corporate transactional lawyer at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she represents clients in general business and transactional matters, entity formation, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. She can be reached at mbailey@brookspierce.com.

Mark Davidson is a partner at the law firm Brooks Pierce in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he focuses on a variety of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, organization, governance, debt and equity financing, executive compensation, partnership and corporate taxation, and management/ownership succession. He can be reached at mdavidson@brookspierce.com.

Critics of the Federal Home Loan banks fundamentally misunderstand the purpose and necessity of the system.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said the greater-than-expected easing in inflation in June may be an indication that the U.S. economy can have a "soft landing," returning to price stability without a damaging recession.