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March 27, 2025
PayPal Investors Drop Derivative Suit Over SEC, CFPB Probes
Shareholders of PayPal voluntarily dismissed their derivative suit against the company's executives and directors accusing them of making false statements about PayPal's practices that allegedly led to federal investigations, saying the dismissal is proper since the defendants were not liable in a similar securities class action filed against them.
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March 27, 2025
CFPB Says It Will Scrap Buy Now, Pay Later Policy
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will withdraw guidance that asserted buy-now, pay-later products were subject to some of the same federal safeguards as traditional credit cards, the regulator said in a court filing in a suit challenging the interpretive rule.
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March 27, 2025
BREAKING: SEC Drops Defense Of Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it would no longer defend regulations requiring some of the world's largest corporations to publicly disclose the effects climate change could have on their businesses, walking away from an Eighth Circuit challenge to the rules that the agency's acting chair called "unnecessarily intrusive."
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March 27, 2025
SEC Nom Suggests He May Open Agency's Doors To DOGE
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday appeared to welcome the potential arrival of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, while also pushing back on suggestions that his earlier votes as a Republican commissioner exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.
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March 27, 2025
Paul Atkins' Past Speeches Offer A Glimpse Into SEC's Future
Following Paul Atkins' Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, a look at his public remarks while serving as a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 2002 and 2008 reveal eight possible structural and procedural changes the SEC may see once he likely takes over as chair, say attorneys at Covington.
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