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- The financial services industry remains the least trusted in the U.S. [Politico]
- Democratic Senators are objecting to the House’s JOBS Act due to provisions that weaken investor protections. [Los Angeles Times]
- Former employees of the failed investment firm MF Global are being called to testify before Congress next month. [New York Times]
- House Republicans don’t plan to take up the Senate’s transportation bill this month. [Politico]
- A former for-profit college executive is blowing the whistle on his firm, saying it engaged in predatory lending. [Huffington Post]
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is planning to increase its oversight of high-speed trading. [Wall Street Journal]
- U.S. tax evaders can no longer count on Swiss secrecy. [Time]
- The International Monetary Fund has agreed to put $36 billion into the latest round of funding to bail out Greece. [Washington Post]
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