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Louisiana enacts new requirements for student loans

CFPB Monitor

HB 789 requires private education lenders to register with the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions and provide annual reporting to the state on certain of their private education loan activities. The registration requirements do not apply to lenders licensed under the Louisiana Consumer Credit Law, La.

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Zuckerberg Advocates Internet Regulation

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling on regulators to take a “more active role” in making rules for how to police the internet, according to reports. “By Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to hold talks with state attorneys general about Facebook and Google ’s position in the technology space.

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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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Casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana are reopening this week, and visitors are traveling long distances and waiting in lines to enter the facilities, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. One person cited in the report drove from Houston to Louisiana with her family for the reopening of casinos on Monday. And, while U.S.

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Facebook CMO Leaving To Focus On Promoting Diversity In Tech

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” According to his LinkedIn profile, Lucio graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Arts in history, and worked at Kraft, PepsiCo, Visa and Hewlett-Packard prior to joining Facebook in September 2018. His Facebook corporate profile states that he was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico.

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Remote Seller Taxation: A Job For Tax Automation

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Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. Aftershocks from the South Dakota v. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C.

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Louisiana governor vetoes bill to allow high-cost installment loans

American Banker

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US AGs Prepare Probes Into Big Tech

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Jeff Landry, the Louisiana attorney general, said that even though the government has the most authority, “meaningful litigation to check companies over the last 30 years seems to be starting out more and more from the state AGs. As for the AG investigations, they seem to primarily focus on Google and Facebook.

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