Compliance

Despite a robust anti-money-laundering regime imposed on credit unions, banks and money services businesses in the U.S., a number of loopholes are allowing other companies to skate by without performing basic due diligence to curb the flow of illicit funds, according to a report by the Financial Action Task Force.

Visa Inc. pushed back its deadline for installing chip-card readers in U.S. gasoline pumps after station owners complained they didn’t have enough time to complete the multibillion-dollar upgrades.

Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin's plan to remove Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control could mean increased competition for lenders' loans. But it could also prompt a rise in mortgage rates.

As bitcoin's spotlight fades and banks work to adapt its underlying blockchain technology for more traditional uses, it seemed that the world was ready to move on from the infamous cryptocurrency. And then Donald Trump was elected president of the U.S.

Banks tend to respond to ATM and payment breach risks after an incident. They need to get more proactive.

A federal court in California has accepted a controversial request from the IRS to obtain the records of possibly millions of users of the bitcoin exchange Coinbase.

Even before taking office, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin has said he wants to return Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private sector, a radically different vision of housing finance reform than that pushed by other Republicans.

President-elect Donald Trump recognizes that full repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act is unlikely, though he supports a House effort to make significant changes, according to a former banker who was on the shortlist to be Treasury secretary.

While one economist recently reminded credit unions that household incomes have finally returned to pre-recession levels, another has just released data that shows credit union business lending – a creator of U.S. jobs – is still down significantly from eight years ago.

The National Credit Union Administration in November issued four notices of prohibition to individuals who have been convicted of crimes of dishonesty.