Compliance

U.S. banks are trying to answer a key question about open banking: Can we share our data with payment companies and other fintechs without scrapping our legacy systems? The answer is yes, with an asterisk.

Mastercard is aggressively building a business payments ecosystem as it keeps an eye on political headwinds it has little control over.

Ripple isn't a part of Facebook's Libra. It's more likely to be a rival, and it must be careful to make sure that lawmakers see the distinction.

As the Federal Reserve prepares for its October meeting, many institutions are waiting to see how the board's actions might impact the ongoing war for deposits.

Regulatory bodies are making modifications to disclosure requirements with greater frequency, requiring issuers to spend time and money to make updates across what is often a complex mixture of products, communications and channels, says Messagepoint's Fred Harding.

Digital payments and new financial services add complexity to the rules, says Joel Sherwin of Weinberg Gonser LLP.

The National Credit Union Administration has unveiled a proposal to address a federal judge's concerns that its 2016 field-of-membership overhaul could discourage lending in low-income areas.

New tech can help banks with less cumbersome systems track suspicious activity more effectively.

The chairman acknowledged the timetable is "ambitious."

Facebook's original proposal for Libra was to develop a sweeping, global currency with the backing of the world's biggest companies. Now, with fewer companies on its side and a massive backlash by lawmakers, Facebook is loosening one of Libra's core values.

New tech can help banks with less cumbersome systems track suspicious activity more effectively.

In a move to tap into an underserved market opportunity — but with the potential for political backlash — Sallie Mae launched three different cash-back reward credit cards aimed at college students and young adults.

The court passed up a recent opportunity to clarify confusion about Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for business websites, raising concerns that credit unions could become an even more inviting litigation target.

The court passed up a recent opportunity to clarify confusion about Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for business websites, raising concerns among bankers that they could become an even more inviting litigation target.

Readers react to a regulator's promise to reduce regulation that hinders innovation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to impose heavier taxes on lobbying groups, Freddie Mac's exploration into AI and more.

Officials said Thursday that they will not take regulatory action against state-chartered banks and credit unions solely for serving licensed cannabis businesses.

Banks need to understand that examiners' job is to call it like they see it.

How PayPal obtained a payments license to operate in China — an achievement that’s long frustrated the biggest U.S. banks and payments networks — sheds light on the unique challenges of breaking into the world’s biggest payments market.

The use of data-rich messaging through the ISO 20022 standard has been at the core of nearly every Federal Reserve discussion about faster payments, as well as Swift's plans for its member banks.

New plans for a ballot initiative in November 2020 threaten to overturn concessions that financial institutions, tech firms and other companies have won from state lawmakers.