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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: U.S. Regulator Sues Three Major Banks Over Zelle Fraud

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, EU regulators clear Nvidia’s merger with Run:ai. And Italy’s privacy regulator fines OpenAI $15.5 million. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.2

Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Friday, December 20th.

0:39.8

I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:42.3

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing three major banks for failing to protect

0:47.8

users of payments platform Zell from fraud.

0:51.4

J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are part of a consortium that

0:55.9

owns Zell. The regulator says the three banks, which make up about 70% of activity on the app,

1:02.6

rushed Zell's release to compete with Venmo and Cash App, which harmed the app's guardrails

1:07.8

against fraud. The lawsuit alleges the bank's customers have lost more than

1:12.1

$870 million since Zell launched in 2017. In a statement, Zell operator Early Warning says

1:19.8

scams on the platform have dropped significantly. A Zell spokeswoman said the regulators, quote,

1:25.6

attacks on Zell are legally and factually flawed.

1:29.4

The European Union has approved NVIDIA's takeover of an Israeli streamlining provider.

1:34.9

The Blocks regulator said NVIDIA's merger with Run AI didn't raise competition concerns

1:40.0

because it wouldn't give the chipmaker the ability or incentive to hamper its GPU's compatibility

1:45.0

with rival's software.

1:47.3

It cleared the deal without conditions.

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