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  • Changpeng ZhaoTech

    Binance will create a crypto ‘industry recovery fund,’ CEO says

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • Sam Bankman-FriedRegulators

    Both the DOJ and SEC are probing potential criminal activity, securities offenses at FTX, source says

    By Ken Sweet, Michael Balsamo, and others
  • FILE – An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, on Feb. 17, 2022. Bitcoin slumped to a two-year low, Wednesday, Nov. 9, and other digital assets sold off following the sudden collapse of crypto exchange FTX Trading, which has been forced to sell itself to larger rival Binance. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)The Coins

    Bitcoin plunges to multi-year low as CZ’s Binance pulls out of deal to rescue Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • FILE – President Joe Biden announces his administration’s plans to eliminate junk fees for consumers, Oct. 26, 2022, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington. With time running out before the election, President Biden highlighted his administration’s push to crack down on so-called junk fees that banks and other companies charge consumers. The announcement comes after months of high inflation has eaten away at Americans’ savings and made the economy the top issue for voters. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)Personal Finance

    Biden pushes crackdown on bank ‘junk fees’ that government says will save Americans $3 billion a year

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on a screen in the background, questions witnesses about Zelle, during a Senate Banking Committee annual Wall Street oversight hearing, Sept. 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On the panel from left, Wells Fargo & Company CEO and President Charles Scharf, Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Thomas Moynihan, JPMorgan Chase & Company Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Truist Financial Corporation Chairman and CEO William Rogers Jr., U.S. Bancorp Chairman, President, and CEO Andy Cecere, and The PNC Financial Services Group Chairman, President, and CEO William Demchak. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Personal Finance

    Fraud is booming on Zelle. But the banks that own it aren’t reimbursing scammed customers

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • US Bankcorp bank branchFinance

    US Bank fined $37.5 million after workers opened fake accounts to meet sales goals

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • FILE – People walk past a currency exchange office screen displaying the exchange rates of U.S. Dollar and Euro to Russian Rubles in Moscow, on Feb. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)Finance

    Russia’s ruble has almost totally recovered. Does that mean sanctions aren’t working?

    By Ken Sweet, Ellen Knickmeyer, and others
  • COVID-19 cases in the U.S.Health

    COVID cases are down in 49 states even as deaths near 900,000

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • Bank of America overdraft feesFinance

    Bank of America to cut overdraft fees from $35 to $10

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, July 29, 2020 — Photo taken on July 29, 2020 shows the U.S. Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., the United States. The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record-low level of near zero amid a recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases nationwide. (Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images)Politics

    Biden reverses Trump-era changes to bank antidiscrimination law

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press
  • eviction protections coronavirusPolitics

    Most renters won’t receive eviction protections amid coronavirus pandemic under Trump proposal

    By Ken Sweet and The Associated Press