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Financial reform this week: Will SEC's final whistleblower rule require first filing internal complaint?

By Julie Vorman

Your guide to Dodd-Frank law deadlines, hearing and events for the week of May 23

Regulatory brawl over debit cards sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

By Amy Biegelsen

Lobbying brawl sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

Excerpts from this story referencing "business":

"… g fees, aggressive competition between Visa and MasterCard to win banks’ business has helped keep swipe fees high and resulted in an annual $16 billion bona …"

"… card companies helped drive up fees over the years, in part because their business interests are more aligned with banks than with retailers.“This system i …"

"… ly Congress should not have waded into because it’s choosing between two business interests,” said Ed Mills, a Washington policy analyst with FBR Capital …"

Koch buys online advertising to attack report on its lobbying influence

Oil firm takes out online ads attacking Center reporter’s project on lobbying

Excerpts from this story referencing "business":

"… while journalism has, due to the recession and the digital shakeup of the business model, shrunk," Hoyt said in an email. "Combine that with the ability of p …"

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How much does it really cost to process debit card purchases?

By Julie Vorman

How much goes for processing?

Bankers, consumer groups clash over IRS plan to crack down on foreign tax cheats

By Michael Hudson

US banks say they shouldn't have to report foreign deposits

Excerpts from this story referencing "business":

"… orate Transparency Coalition, which describes itself as a network of small business, consumer, grass-roots, financial policy, faith-based, labor and governmen …"

U.S. Chamber boosts election budget to $75 million

By Peter H. Stone

Tom Donohue, the combative president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is upping the ante for the fall elections....

Excerpts from this story referencing "business":

"… ante for the fall elections.The Chamber aims to raise $75 million for the business behemoth’s electoral efforts, a 50 percent jump from its earlier stated …"

"… illion, Donohue said in a tough closed-door speech on June 28 to about 100 business and industry group leaders, according to a source who attended the meeting …"

"… ommittee of 100” at a resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. He urged the business community to work together to “change the composition” of the Congress …"

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Internal e-mails suggest doctoring of oil spill information by White House

By Laurel Adams

The White House may have ignored expert advice from government officials and pressured scientists to make changes in a report about the BP o

Consumer safety agency plans crowdsourced database

By Laurel Adams

Over the objections of manufacturers, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will launch a searchable, online database in March that

Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

Insurance brokers seek change in health reform provision to protect profits

Koch brothers wade into Wisconsin union fight

By Jeremy Borden

Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit funded in part by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, has launched a 30-second television adve

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