Financials Friday: BNPL Industry Has Mixed Response to New CFPB Regulation; Lawsuits Loom Over Fed’s New Debit Interchange Fee Cap; Synapse Collapse, Frozen Fintech Accounts Mark ‘Watershed’ Moment for BAAS; FDIC Chairman to Step Down; OCC Issues Enforcement Action Against Comerica Bank & Trust

Despite a Weakened Macron, His Fight for European ‘Champions’ Vs. Competition Enforcement Isn’t Going Anywhere, Experts Say

Recent elections in France have weakened Emmanuel Macron in Paris and Brussels. But the push by the French president and other senior European politicians for less aggressive European Union...

SAMR, In Proposed Guidance, Stresses Horizontal Deals’ Likely Impact On Chinese Economy

China’s antitrust authority last week stressed in its proposed new guidance on horizontal merger reviews that it will consider a deal’s impact on the country’s economy, indicating the...

The Antitrust Agenda: Open Markets Event Thursday; Walmart Says “No Such Thing as Big Grocery” in Fight Vs. RPA; Mullins Discusses Book, Series on Josh Wright; FTC Commissioners Back New Patent Office Rule

Open Markets Institute event on the information crisis this Thursday from Noon to 5:30PM. The event is titled “Fixing the Information Crisis Before it’s too Late (for Democracy),” and it will...