And just as quickly as he was back on the scene, now he’s gone.  With a wipe of the evidence purporting to show he invented Bitcoin and a new post entitled “I’m sorry,” Craig Steven Wright appears poised to fade back into the shadows – NYTimes and WSJ

Jobs report Friday.  Early indication is that American employment keeps chugging right along – Bloomberg

Days after a group of banks agreed to pay $324 million to resolve allegations that they “rigged a benchmark interest rate used to set terms for swaps transactions,” many have been named as part of a putative antitrust class action in Chicago for allegedly “conspiring to dominate the market for interest rate swaps” – Law360

Remember how I said that the financial industry was none too pleased with the CFPB’s new anti-arbitration provision?  Well, that was definitely too tame a characterization – WSJ

More regulatory fallout driven by the Panama Papers, as the White House yesterday adopted a rule that “would require financial institutions to identify the true owners of the companies they do business with” – WSJ

Despite slowing growth in China, Alibaba managed to wring out a 39% increase in sales in the fourth quarter (a whopping $3.75 billion) – NYTimes

Sanofi’s not satisfied with Medivation’s refusal to engage in takeover discussions, and Medivation’s Board may be feeling the heat soon – WSJ

Perhaps my favorite new “blame the millennials” story.  They’ve killed running, you see  [shouldn’t we really be blaming their boomer parents for this?] – WSJ

Taking “it tastes like chicken” and “finger lickin’ good” to a whole new [“gross/intriguing,” according to Racked.com] level – NYTimes

Have a good weekend.