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Brazen no more, makers of account-draining bank trojan get 24 years

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Two men who built and sold a banking trojan that infected more than 50 million computers around the world and caused almost $ 1 billion in losses have been sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison.

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, the chief developer and distributor of SpyEye, received a sentence of nine years...

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Marijuana investment group Privateer Holdings hires Federal Reserve bank examiner
Dante Tosetti.
One of the nation’s leading marijuana investment groups is bringing on its second former federal official. Seattle-based Privateer Holdings today announced the hiring of Dante Tosetti, a former bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Tosetti, a commercial banking veteran, will come on board as Privateer’s director...
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Bank of America gets Twitter to delete journalist’s joke, says he violated copyright

The founding editor of Business Insider UK, Jim Edwards, had a bank delete two of his tweets today. In an e-mail, Bank of America told Edwards that his tweets violated the bank's copyright and that if he kept it up, they'd see to it that his Twitter account was deleted.

"Investment banks apparently have the power to censor journalists on Twitter, simply by asking," Edwards wrote in...

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Boost for Boeing: Export-Import Bank wins revival after battle in Congress
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Nearly six months after the Export-Import Bank was shut down due to congressional wrangling, the federal agency has been revived – which is good news for the Boeing Co. The bank plays a key role in making loans and guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Since 2007, it’s provided support for $ 135 billion in exports from...
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