Compliance

As the holiday shopping season kicks off, retailers are preparing for an influx of payment volume from shoppers and scammers alike. Here are a few of the problems they face.

JPMorgan Chase seeks to reshape its business through technology, but there is a natural gap between the megabank and Silicon Valley startups. Larry Feinsmith's job is to bring the two together.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned financial companies on Monday to properly manage employee incentives that can pose significant risks to consumers, part of the ongoing fallout from Wells Fargo's phony account openings.

The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion last week to restrict large banks vying for city contracts from using predatory sales goals in response to the furor over Wells Fargo's phony accounts scandal.

The election results will only intensify factors making competition with bank lenders more difficult, including the effect of interest rates as well as the regulatory environment.

How Align Credit Union was able to lighten its compliance burden and improve its branching strategy in one fell swoop.

Payday lenders are seeking a court injunction to stop what they say is a concerted effort by federal banking regulators to cut them off from the mainstream financial system.

Whether or not retailers are properly guarding their payment hardware and their in-store networks, a bigger issue might just be the workers who have access to retail organizations' data — including both regular staff and temporary holiday workers.

The Pennsylvania company has redoubled its outreach to low- and moderate-income consumers by partnering with Operation Hope on a down payment assistance program and naming a veteran banker to the newly created post of director of fair and responsible banking. But despite these efforts, history says Fulton is unlikely to escape punishment if the Justice Department finds that it violated fair-lending laws.

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