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Looking to 2021, guided vacation company Trafalgar pivots to new pandemic normal to spur bookings

Looking to 2021, guided vacation company Trafalgar pivots to new pandemic normal to spur bookings

Guided vacation company Trafalgar is pivoting to meet consumer concerns in an effort to ensure travel takes off again in early 2021. CNBC spoke with Trafalgar President Melissa da Silva about when she sees tourism rebounding, and what her company is doing to help that happen.

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Insurers lobby for federal pandemic insurance program

Insurers lobby for federal pandemic insurance program

After the coronavirus created a tidal wave of business interruption lawsuits, the insurance industry is pushing for a partly government-backed fund to cover future pandemics.

6 years ago
Suze Orman: A perfect financial storm is brewing and it is worse than 2008

Suze Orman: A perfect financial storm is brewing and it is worse than 2008

Several measures to bring financial relief to Americans are about to go away, unless Congress acts.

6 years ago
Open Banking – North American Style

Open Banking – North American Style

Fintech Talents | Lisa Moyle  | Jul 14, 2020 Open Banking is taking shape in different ways across North America. From driving the development of new providers to enabling existing institutions to keep pace with a fast changing industry, the impact on financial services is significant. As the current crisis demonstrates, the swift change in

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Looking to 2021, tour operator Trafalgar pivots to new pandemic normal to spur bookings

Looking to 2021, tour operator Trafalgar pivots to new pandemic normal to spur bookings

Trafalgar Tours is pivoting to meet consumer concerns in an effort to ensure travel takes off again in early 2021. CNBC spoke with Trafalgar President Melissa da Silva about when she sees tourism rebounding, and what her company is doing to help that happen.

6 years ago
Robinhood scraps launch of its investing app in the UK

Robinhood scraps launch of its investing app in the UK

Robinhood has told U.K. customers that it will refocus its efforts on strengthening core business in the U.S.

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Financial Consumer Agency of Canada launches renewed Consumer Protection Advisory Committee

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada launches renewed Consumer Protection Advisory Committee

Financial Consumer Agency of Canada | Release | July 15, 2020 OTTAWA, ON, July 15, 2020 /CNW/ - The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) protects financial consumers by strengthening the financial literacy of Canadians and ensuring that banks and other federally regulated entities comply with their legislative obligations, codes of conduct and public commitments. As

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Fintech & Cybersecurity: Key Risks and Solutions

Fintech & Cybersecurity: Key Risks and Solutions

Guest Post | July 21, 2020 Fintech companies have dramatically improved financial services worldwide. The sum of innovative technologies is offering groundbreaking banking and financial services to both consumers and B2B clients. In terms of funding, payments, investments, and other processes, the financial sector has never been more streamlined. But in line with increased performance,

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A second Great Depression? Unemployment crisis hits big cities hard

A second Great Depression? Unemployment crisis hits big cities hard

New York, Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities have seen the unemployment rate soar to 20%, a level some economists believe meets the definition of an economic depression.

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Cramer says the stock market could go even higher if more Americans wore coronavirus masks

Cramer says the stock market could go even higher if more Americans wore coronavirus masks

The "Mad Money" host said that wider mask adoption could push stocks tied to state economic reopening plans higher in addition to tech stocks.

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'Don't get greedy' — Mark Cuban warns investors of stock similarities to 1990s dot-com bubble

'Don't get greedy' — Mark Cuban warns investors of stock similarities to 1990s dot-com bubble

The billionaire businessman on CNBC on Monday compared the stock market's big run-up from its late March coronavirus low to the 1990s tech frenzy.

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Hands off that retirement money until you scout through all the options

Hands off that retirement money until you scout through all the options

Your retirement account may seem like a piggy bank waiting to be cracked open but consider this before you break in.

6 years ago
Credit complaints to federal consumer agency have spiked during coronavirus pandemic

Credit complaints to federal consumer agency have spiked during coronavirus pandemic

An analysis of complaints in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public database have surged since the pandemic began walloping the U.S. economy and households in March.

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Take this Social Security quiz and see if you are smarter than the average American

Take this Social Security quiz and see if you are smarter than the average American

Deciding when and how to claim Social Security is one of the biggest decisions you can make. Yet many Americans can't pass a basic quiz on its rules. Find out what most Americans get wrong and right, and how you score.

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Cramer says he can't recall a 'self-inflicted' disaster in America ever as bad as the coronavirus

Cramer says he can't recall a 'self-inflicted' disaster in America ever as bad as the coronavirus

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday the U.S. response to the coronavirus pales in comparison to how nations such as Japan and South Korea have handled it.

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