WSJ News Exclusive | FDIC Faces Internal Reckoning Over Toxic-Culture Allegations

[ad_1] The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is facing an internal reckoning over allegations of widespread harassment and discrimination, with many employees left skeptical about the agency’s commitment to overhaul its…

Meta Sues FTC Over Its In-House Courts

[ad_1] Nov. 30, 2023 11:15 am ET WASHINGTON—Meta Platforms has challenged the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission’s structure, the company’s latest effort to block the regulator from imposing new…

Supreme Court Weighs Whether SEC Violates Defendants’ Jury-Trial Rights

[ad_1] WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider a case that could severely limit the Securities and Exchange Commission’s use of its special in-house courts to punish wrongdoers. Critics have…

Barretts Minerals Fights to Keep Bankruptcy Case in Texas

[ad_1] Nov. 28, 2023 5:28 pm ET|WSJ Pro Talc supplier Barretts Minerals is challenging an effort by creditors, including tort claimants, to move its chapter 11 bankruptcy case from Texas…

Shein Still Needs to Prove It’s a Bargain

[ad_1] Built-in-China online fashion company Shein has swept the world with its fast-to-market, hip designs. It now needs to show investors that its breakneck growth can convert into bigger profit,…

The Fintech Files: Crypto shorts got it wrong on Binance

[ad_1] When Binance founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to criminal charges and resigned as CEO on 21 November, crypto short-sellers bet on another FTX-style market crash. Binance reached a mammoth…

Meta Designed Products to Capitalize on Teen Vulnerabilities, States Allege

[ad_1] Meta Platforms sought to design its social-media products in ways to take advantage of known weaknesses of young users’ brains, according to newly unredacted legal filings citing internal company…

Bayer CEO Says Breakup Wouldn’t Fix All of the Company’s Ills

[ad_1] BERLIN—Bayer Chief Executive Bill Anderson said the company would bounce back quickly from a recent spate of bad news, and warned that a breakup of the pharmaceutical and agricultural…

Why Stamping Out Crypto Bros Could Help Bitcoin

[ad_1] Such is the wackiness of the crypto world that a regulatory crackdown might actually revive investor optimism. Earlier this week, Binance Chief Executive Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations…

Binance Guilty Plea Shows What Crypto’s Really About

[ad_1] Nov. 22, 2023 12:27 pm ET So it turns out that of the two largest crypto exchanges, one was a fraud and the other was a money launderer. Whoever…