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The House Financial Services Committee is preparing to vote on legislation to modernize anti-money-laundering rules, but the latest version of the bill excludes a key provision involving the collection of beneficial ownership information.

PCI compliance can take time and is expensive, but it's a vital part of security and there are ways to mitigate the resource challenges, according to Justin Shipe, vice president of information security for CardConnect.

Republican congressmen Blaine Luetkemeyer and Steve Pearce say their new legislation would update anti-money-laundering and counterterrorism requirements for small financial institutions.

Above all, open banking helps financial institutions improve the user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and addressing consumer needs, writes Aurimas Adomavicius, president and co-founder of Devbridge Group.

Mick Mulvaney is gutting the consumer watchdog, and it bodes poorly for hardworking Americans.

Subscribing to simplification at the expense of nuance is hugely counter-productive, and will alienate both existing and potential customers, writes Elina Mattila, executive director at Mobey Forum.

Whether banks knowingly work with marijuana businesses or not, they face risks as long as there are no federal clear guidelines in place. Congress must fix this.

Protecting customer data should have always been a priority for companies. With GDPR, they now have a framework for teams across the organization to adopt and protect their customer data, writes Shanthala Balagopal, a product marketing executive at Helpshift.

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Since addresses are recorded in the blockchain, it is possible to trace each transaction where the address was used, which aids in AML, according to Ron Teicher, CEO of EverCompliant.