Compliance

Visa and MasterCard have agreed to share their common application identifier technology, enabling EMV-chip based debit transactions to originate from a single application while allowing merchants a choice of networks for routing.

Leaders in emerging payments and virtual currency have formed a committee to establish a self-regulating body to ensure regulatory compliance as the marketplace changes.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pen Air has signed with NB Risk Partners, recently acquired by NeighborBranch, for compliance risk management services.

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Bitcoin, a decentralized virtual currency, has been declared illegal in Thailand. Members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department made the determination at a meeting on July 29 in the Southeastern Asian country, according to a Bitcoin exchange operator in attendance.

It's time credit unions make critical business decisions around mortgage lending and compliance, including staffing levels and reporting alignment, all due to new CFPB rules taking effect next year, urges one expert.

The U.S. migration to EMV is not a mandate, but it might as well be, says one compliance expert, who is also providing some guidance on making the shift to this new payments technology.

Credit unions need to think strategically, subscribe to scale and automate to have any hope of meeting compliance demands.

The confirmation of Richard Cordray to director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adds some certainty to the compliance picture ahead, including that the clock is ticking on a host of new mortgage compliance rules taking effect in January.

The biggest compliance issues credit unions will face in the next 12 months relate to every step of the mortgage process, and one person says it's going to have an impact on more than just the mortgage department.