Compliance

Unhappy with the regulator's effort to pare back restrictions on CUs business loans, bankers have taken a page from the CU handbook, sending copious letters to NCUA about its proposed MBL rule.

DENVER—Fourth Corner CU here, chartered last year to serve Colorado's legal marijuana industry, has filed lawsuits against NCUA and the Federal Reserve after having its applications rejected for share deposit insurance and access to the Fed system, respectively.

The Federal Housing Administration is expected to rebuff a government watchdog report that blasted down payment assistance programs. The report has raised concerns that mortgage lenders would have to indemnify FHA for past loans, and that housing finance agencies would have the programs restructured.

MasterCard will provide tokenization technology to the Samsung Pay mobile wallet when it launches in Europe.

Financial institutions take information security concerns very seriously, but few make it a priority to keep accountholders updated on their safeguarding efforts.

The House Financial Services Committee continued its two-day vote of 14 financial reform bills, approving a variety of measures.

The Financial Services Committee is debating more than a dozen bills aimed at changing a wide swath of financial policies.

MasterCard is cooperating with a European investigation into its fees, though it is questionable that this process will have a widespread effect on interchange, according to MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga.

While tokenization does represent progress, it is important to consider whether tokenization is, in fact, enough to secure online payments. There are some vulnerabilities, and as cyber thieves grow more sophisticated, companies will have to continue to innovate better security solutions, as well as ensure the ones that are on the market are being used as effectively as possible.

Bank regulators are likely to take further action to force banks to upgrade their cybersecurity processes as hackers continue to find ways to penetrate institutions’ defenses, Benjamin Lawsky, the top former New York bank supervisor, said Tuesday.