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JPMorgan Exits Mexico Private Banking, Refers Clients to BBVA. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is shutting its private banking business in Mexico, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as wealthy clients in some of Latin America’s largest economies move their money to international financial capitals. (Michael O'Boyle via Bloomberg)
The Fed's system that allows banks to send money back and forth is down. The Federal Reserve’s system that allows financial institutions to send money back and forth electronically went down for several hours Wednesday, but appeared to be coming back online later in the afternoon. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
More than 6,700 VMware servers exposed online and vulnerable to major new bug. More than 6,700 VMware vCenter servers are currently exposed online and vulnerable to a new attack that can allow hackers to take over unpatched devices and effectively take over companies' entire networks. (Catalin Cimpanu via ZDNet)
FDA to Release Review of J&J's Single-Dose Vaccine. Johnson & Johnson ’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine works safely, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, paving the way for it to authorize a third vaccine in the U.S. as early as this weekend. (Thomas M. Burton via Wall Street Journal)
Report: On Top of Everything Else, Ted Cruz Might Have Broken the Law. Ted Cruz is currently in hot water for his decision to abandon Texas for Cancún in the middle of a state of emergency, for claiming the trip was his daughters’ idea, for getting caught in a web of lies over the origins of said trip, and for blaming the whole thing on both the media and the “assholes” who leaked his wife’s text messages which ultimately blew up Cruz’s spot. (Bess Levin via Vanity Fair)
Spain's Wallapop raises $191M at an $840M valuation for its classifieds marketplace. Through all of the last year’s lockdowns, venue closures and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the spread of COVID-19, shopping — and specifically e-commerce — has remained a consistent and hugely important service. (Ingrid Lunden via TechCrunch)
iRobot says it'll be a few weeks until it can clean up its latest Roomba software update mess. iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums, has confirmed to The Verge that a software update has been causing issues for some users of its i7 and s9 robots and that it’s working on another one to prevent future issues. (Mitchell Clark via The Verge)
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