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Reg Wydeven is a partner with the Appleton-based law firm of McCarty Law LLP. He writes a weekly column for The Post-Crescent.

Investing.com -- The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to several major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, requesting information about whether they improperly closed customer accounts for political reasons, according to a Wednesday report by the Wall Street Journal.

Probably. Capital One's issues are not an isolated problem.

Checking out from a grocery store used to be a relatively simple thing. You waited in line, then a person scanned your items, you paid — maybe even by writing a check — and then went on your way. Some stores had 10-items-or-less lines, and the closest thing to a checkout controversy would be when ...

Every few years, investors start to fret that payments giant Visa is finally going to be disrupted. The latest candidate for disruption is, naturally, artificial intelligence. The new fear is that agentic commerce, featuring AI agents doing consumers’ shopping for them, will displace people tapping, swiping or clicking with their credit or debit cards.