Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The same groups want the Securities and Exchange Commission to drop its breach-disclosure rule while asking Congress to keep a confidential threat-sharing law.
June 12 -
Fraud sophistication, transaction velocity and regulatory expectations require a new approach. AI is at the center of it..
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Tokenization of assets is going to transform global finance, but by dragging their heels on establishing clear rules of the road, U.S. regulators could be pushing the development of key infrastructure overseas.
June 12 -
Regulators are not requiring banks to verify customer citizenship under a May executive order, which is a relief for banks. But how a new Fincen-led guidance will shift compliance expectations remains unclear, especially for smaller banks.
June 12 -
Federal prosecutors have sought records and account closure data from banks as the Trump administration continues to clash with the industry.
June 11 -
Plans to allow U.S. banks to reduce the capital they hold create uncomfortable echoes of past turmoil in credit markets. As regulators contemplate relaxing standards meant to protect the public, they should look to past financial crises.
June 11 -
Rising assessment fees and the fear of punitive actions under newly installed state regulator Rohit Chopra may push some California-chartered banks to switch to a federal overseer, some industry observers say.
June 11 -
The White House has nominated Brian Johnson, the former CFPB deputy and a veteran Capitol Hill staffer, to permanently lead the bureau.
June 10 -
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants to establish a framework to evaluate prediction market contracts and determine whether some contracts are related to invalid events or generally serve the public interest.
June 10 -
The National Credit Union Administration proposed amending its common-bond provisions to allow the agency to approve some associations whose membership relies on the purchase of a product or service, a move banks say undermines the rationale for tax-exempt credit unions.
June 10 -
In passing the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, Congress intended to create national rules that would guide lending across state borders. States can't simply opt out of them.
June 10 -
The burgeoning predictions market is gaining users and volume rapidly and is being largely embraced by the Trump administration. But banks are torn between the promise of new revenue streams and the iffy legal foundations of the new market.
June 10 -
Chair Travis Hill wants to shift resolution planning away from lengthy bank-generated narratives and toward rapid access to critical operational data during failures.
June 9 -
The FDIC's recent analysis of the deposit flight that helped take down Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic banks in 2023 is informative. However, it leaves unanswered some important questions about regulators' assumptions related to brokered deposits.
June 9 -
In a recent industry snapshot, the Investment Adviser Association found the average number of data points advisors have to report in annual regulatory filings has nearly doubled to more than 1,000 since 2011.
June 8 -
The Trump administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has quietly scrubbed over a decade of consumer guidance and public records from its website.
June 8 -
A technicality in the federal law enacted in July 2025 changed how deductions work for estates and trusts, creating uncertainty over how taxes are allocated after a person's death.
June 8 -
An employee uploaded customer data to an unauthorized AI app. The bank says it reached the vendor before a model could train on the data.
June 8 -
The Federal Reserve governor warned in a speech Saturday that lower capital requirements and lighter supervision could create a credit 'sugar high' that could spur excessive risk-taking, with potentially significant long-term consequences.
June 8 -
The coming mixed-martial-arts fight on the White House lawn is bound to get a lot of attention, but a far more consequential heavyweight fight between President Trump and former Fed Chair Jerome Powell has already been decided.
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