Scholars discuss the economic impacts and legality of the FTC’s now-defunct ban on noncompetes. A sweeping Biden-era rule banning non-compete agreements with workers promised to generate thousands of new businesses annually, increase worker wages, slash health care costs, and fuel ...

Citigroup Inc.’s C subsidiary, Citibank N.A., has reported improving performance in its credit card metrics for April 2026 in a recent SEC filing. While delinquency and net charge-off rates declined compared with the prior month and the prior-year period, principal ...

News20.05.262.00 PM by Alex Daniel Rules designed to crack down on late payments to contractors have taken a step closer to becoming law, two months after ministers unveiled the measures. The rules were introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday ...

The FCC has extended the comment and reply comment deadlines in its offshore call center oversight rulemaking, giving stakeholders additional time beyond the original 30/60‑day schedule tied to Federal Register publication of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). What this ...

New York: US authorities have shut down an India-based call centre operation that allegedly defrauded hundreds of elderly Americans of millions of dollars through tech support scams, following a years-long investigation that led to the conviction of five "telemarketing fraudsters" ...

The fintech firm is Parker, a Y Combinator–backed corporate card and banking startup that abruptly filed for Chapter 7 liquidation after raising more than $200 million. Who is the company? The firm is Parker, a fintech that provided corporate credit ...

Skyrocketing inflation, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty are devastating markets, forcing layoffs and closures across Iran As Iran’s economic crisis deepens, soaring prices, collapsing purchasing power, and growing uncertainty about the future are pushing businesses across the country into ...

AI is transforming debt collection by making outreach more targeted, automating routine work, and improving both recovery rates and customer experience. The biggest shift is from broad, manual contact strategies to data-driven, personalized, and largely digital collection workflows. Main changes ...

A customer shops at a major discount chain store in Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap) Consumer sentiment rose at the fastest pace in about a year in May, driven by robust semiconductor exports and the stock market rally, the central bank ...