Compliance

Legacy systems will be pressured in the year ahead to keep ahead of e-commerce, international regulations and other emerging risks.

Customers Bancorp of Wyomissing, Pa., has entered into a cease-and-desist order with the Federal Reserve related to the student disbursements business it bought from Higher One Holdings. It also agreed to pay a civil penalty of $960,000.

Rising interest rates are a near certainty, analysts say, but plenty of unknowns remain, including how populist movements in Europe might impact the global economic picture.

Banking and credit union trade groups are urging Congress to consider repealing any upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules governing arbitration, payday lending, debt collection and prepaid cards by using its authority under the Congressional Review Act.

The American Bankers Association has filed a lawsuit against the National Credit Union Administration, arguing that the regulator's new field-of-membership rule go too far.

As expected, the American Bankers Association has filed a legal challenge against the credit union regulator’s recent overhaul of FOM rules, even as the agency is working on additional reforms.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director Richard Cordray are on a collision course with President-elect Donald J. Trump in what could become a legal showdown over the limits to executive power.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to finalize its rulemaking on arbitration in early 2017, though it is unclear if the controversial regulation can be completed before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

While the designation of Ben Carson – noted neuroscientist and former GOP presidential candidate – to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development appears like an unusual choice, lenders are hoping he can bring a fresh perspective to the industry

In short order, Mastercard, Visa and now Amex have made rapid strikes designed to not only bolster identity protection for online commerce, but to make that protection nearly invisible to the consumer.