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Bank mergers, climate change and fintech rules are instrumental changes that the Center for American Progress is calling for Biden regulators to champion.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu lauded the agencies' unified Community Reinvestment Act proposal's focus on climate policies, while Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard trumpeted the data-driven aspects of the proposal.

Anchorage Digital Bank has an inadequate AML compliance program and will have to create a committee within 15 days to develop a remediation plan and submit progress reports, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently decided to put an official in charge of the rising number of small and midsize national banks that partner with fintechs or have nontraditional business plans. The agency’s goal is to establish a team that understands cutting-edge technologies and establishes consistent oversight policies in response.

The acting comptroller pushed back against a key feature of Sen. Pat Toomey’s stablecoin proposal, and the idea that stablecoins could be regulated as money market funds

Mutual institutions, long pillars of underserved communities, now face insurmountable barriers to entry.

Not all reforms are created equal. Only those truly taking a consumer-first approach — such as curtailing fees and allowing for grace periods — will see lasting benefits in customer loyalty, writes the acting comptroller of the currency.

The agency will create a deputy comptroller position responsible for “novel” banking providers, redraw its territories and more closely align its examiner staffs for small and medium-size banks.

A supervisory letter detailing their failings in assessing exposure to a collapsed hedge fund suggests that the Federal Reserve believes banks are falling short in basic risk management.

The megabank is dealing with one less regulatory headache following the termination of an enforcement action related to the sale of identity protection products.