A federal court in Minnesota yesterday granted class action status to a lawsuit by financial institutions against Target over the retailer’s 2013 data breach. Institutions eligible for the class include all U.S. issuers of payment cards compromised in the breach. Class action status will allow plaintiffs to coordinate representation, discovery, witnesses and other court processes.
The Small Business Administration has reinstated stronger underwriting requirements for 7(a) loans through the issuance of a Standard Operating Procedure document.
So far in 2025, property and casualty insurers in the S&P 500 are up about 4.9%, compared with declines for banks (-10.0%) and the broader index (-8.6%).
Consumer sentiment fell 4.8 points in April to 52.2, down 25 points from one year ago, according to final results of the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
The Federal Reserve and FDIC rescinded two joint statements issued under the Biden administration on the risk management obligations of financial institutions should they offer crypto-related services.
The rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.81% this week. The rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage was 5.94%.
Quantum computing is an entirely new way of processing information, and it has the power to solve extremely difficult computational problems much more quickly than binary computers. How are payments and banking affected?
