American Banker
To take seriously Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting’s recent announcement encouraging banks to offer short-term, small-dollar loans to subprime borrowers as an alternative to payday lenders, one has to believe that he is unaware of both the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s small-dollar pilot program from a decade ago.

Bloomberg
De Beers, which almost single-handedly created the allure of diamonds as rare, expensive and the symbol of eternal love, now wants to sell you some party jewelry that is anything but.

The New York Times
Senior officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regularly overrule their own inspectors, allowing gun dealers who fail inspections to keep their licenses even after they were previously warned to follow the rules, according to interviews with more than half a dozen current and former law enforcement officials and a review of more than 100 inspection reports.

Daily Bulletin
The two-story McCann Building, as 108 S. Euclid is known, is made of reinforced concrete, built by Campbell Construction Co. at the behest of Lewis McCann for his hardware store. Among its features are a recessed, double-door entrance, large plate-glass windows and a band of transom windows.

ABC7
Brazen thieves made off with one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces from outside a high-end pawn shop in Beverly Hills.

KOMONEWS.com
A man was working on equipment outside the building when the car jumped the curb and pinned him against the building in Shoreline, Wash.