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A female Commerzbank manager who was described by her manager as having an "unhealthy obsession with work" won her sex discrimination claim for a second time.

The breach was quickly followed by fake text and app messages to customers that appeared to come from the challenger bank.

Some of the Revlon creditors that were accidentally sent more than $900 million by Citigroup asked a federal appeals court for a rehearing, after it ruled that they had to give the money back.

The saga over cryptocurrency regulation took another twist courtesy of a comment buried in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that hints at a case for U.S. jurisdiction over the ethereum blockchain.

A new Treasury Department request for comment invites the public to weigh in on how cryptocurrencies are used in illegal activities. It's part of the Biden administration's larger push to create a regulatory framework for digital assets.

The class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of mortgage borrowers who were allegedly placed into forbearance during the early days of the pandemic without their consent.

A federal judge found last year that a credit reporting dispute did not have to be investigated because the consumer's complaint was frivolous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission argue that the decision undermines a key purpose of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The document automation company Ocrolus recently launched a new version of its fraud detection platform. Here's how it works and what other services lenders should consider.

As Treasury cracks down on DeFi, observers say merging the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance is an increasingly impossible dream.

An appeals court ruled that the electronic delivery of private information that was not made public did not constitute real harm to the consumer.