Compliance

CardX, which enables merchants to add a fee for accepting credit cards, won by showing how its product provides transparency to consumers.

The U.K. should overhaul its stock listing rules and visa requirements to help the country’s fast-growing fintech industry compete after Brexit, a government-backed review has found.

The U.K. got an earlier start on open banking implementations, prompting European merchants and fintechs to turn to payments-as-a-service providers for rapid deployment.

Small shops are facing more competition online. Combined with the impact of Brexit, this has made it even more important for businesses to sell overseas.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a prompt corrective action directive to First National Bank and Trust in January, requiring it to hire a forensic auditor and provide the OCC with access to documents and records.

The operating environment is dramatically different than it was pre-pandemic and presents all-new challenges for financial institutions. Tried-and-true strategies that led to high performance for many years are no longer going to be successful. Join Bonnie McGeer, Executive Editor of American Banker, and Claude Hanley, Partner at Capital Performance Group, as they highlight important trends and comb through data from top-performing banks across the country for insights that will help regional and community financial institutions thrive in 2021. Executives will learn what metrics will be most critical to focus on to maintain high performance going forward.

The nod from the Federal Reserve is seen as a significant step toward eventually freeing the bank from a 2018 order that imposed a cap on its assets.

The former comptroller of the currency, who founded the consulting firm known for its roster of ex-regulators, will hand over leadership of day-to-day activities to an operating committee as he pursues other projects.

As the bureau writes data-sharing rules, the third-party firms that work with fintechs say oversight by the agency would be more efficient — and better for consumers — than being policed by their bank partners.

Tech firms, banks, card networks and governments are all making strong progress toward the everyday use of digital currencies.