Legal issues and news

Banks historically have been averse to challenging their regulators in court, but a suit over the recently finalized Community Reinvestment Act implementation rules is a signal that the times have changed.

The Independent Community Bankers of America, American Bankers Association and other groups filed a lawsuit arguing that recent reforms to implementing regulations for the Community Reinvestment Act exceed statutory authority.

First National Bank of Pennsylvania, a unit of FNB Corp., ran into trouble in connection with North Carolina operations it acquired from Yadkin Financial in 2017.

When customers are targeted directly with fake text messages that lead to account takeover, artificial intelligence, and in some cases generative AI, can play a role in fighting the fraud, experts say.

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network fined a New York credit union employee $100,000 Wednesday in connection with a scheme to launder $1 billion using armored trucks and the credit union's Fed master account.

The megabank failed to adequately protect and reimburse customers who were victims of wire-transfer fraud, according to a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General. Citi said that it follows all relevant laws and regulations.

Zeke Faux, a Bloomberg journalist, describes his two-year odyssey to better understand cryptocurrencies in his book "Number Go Up." His work proves to be an entertaining deep dive into an industry riddled with scams.

The criminal hacking gang LockBit said it was behind a ransomware attack that shut down some of the operations of EquiLend, a financial technology firm that processes trillions of dollars of securities-lending transactions every month.  

Plaintiffs' lawyers are targeting various companies in connection with a California law that ensures customers can air grievances publicly without the threat of retribution. BofA and U.S. Bank say the suits against them are meritless.

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the financial services industry should take the opportunity to step up for survivors.

A federal judge rejected every one of Missouri's arguments for why SIFMA's lawsuit should be dismissed.

The leader of the Financial Services Forum takes issue with a recent BankThink article that challenged the industry's claims about proposed rules for implementing the Basel endgame capital requirements.

The Federal Reserve and New York State Department of Financial Services fined the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for violations related to a lack of internal controls for confidential supervisory information and anti-money-laundering compliance failures.

Past crises have created opportunities for criminal organizations to inject their funds into the legitimate banking system. Bankers can't allow that to happen again.

By overturning so-called "Chevron deference," the Supreme Court could compel lawmakers to be less ambiguous in their legislative language, limiting agencies' interpretative power.

At least four conservative judges on the Supreme Court, a formidable group at the oral argument stage, appear ready to overturn 'Chevron' deference, which could have massive consequences for bank policy.

Who counts as a politically exposed person, or PEP, is different in different jurisdictions. Uniformity in the identification of people considered a higher risk for money laundering would ease compliance headaches for everyone.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases seeking to overturn the legal principle known as "Chevron deference," that could usher in a new era of litigation by corporations against government agencies.

Payments fraud is the most expensive kind, at $450B; anti-financial-crime execs are the most worried about real-time payments, a survey from Nasdaq and Oliver Wyman found.