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Wells Fargo agrees to reduce racial discrimination in lending
Friday, April 9, 2010 � by jg
National Law Journal: The NAACP has dropped a lawsuit against Wells Fargo after the bank agreed to take steps to address racial discrimination in its lending policies.
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Bowed but far from broken, big banks still hold sway
Monday, November 16, 2009 � by eric
Financial institutions, including several banks that received taxpayer bailouts, spent almost $4.01 million on lobbying in Sacramento in the first three quarters of the year as they sought to blunt legislation to rein them in. The industry successfully blunted and blocked several bills intended to provide consumer protections and halt abuses that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression.