Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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One year after it paid $190 million in fines and restitution for opening millions of unauthorized accounts, Wells Fargo remains mired in scandal. Why hasn't it been able to recover?
September 7 -
Fifth Third's Melissa Stevens targets millennials with new app. Meanwhile, regulators are accused of ignoring millennials. Plus, a Goldman Sachs wealth manager sues for discrimination.
September 7 -
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, said he is considering holding another hearing on Wells Fargo following the bank's recent missteps.
September 7 -
New York’s banking regulator ordered Habib Bank Ltd. to pay $225 million and surrender its license to operate in the state, effectively removing Pakistan’s largest lender from the U.S. financial system.
September 7 -
By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.
September 7 -
The nominations of Randal Quarles as Federal Reserve Board vice chairman and Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency will now head to the full Senate.
September 7 -
States must recognize how their patchwork of different regimes stifles innovation, but they also have an opportunity to help maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global fintech marketplace.
September 7 -
The changes to the National Multistate Licensing System will include a more customized user experience for companies and functionality for states to share examination data.
September 7 -
Neglecting to appoint a full-time director could shortchange efforts to improve the bureau’s transparency and undertake other needed reforms.
September 7 -
The Fed announced Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer will depart in October, giving Trump the ability to rapidly reshape the central bank and target Dodd-Frank Act rules.
September 6 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has fined a California-based lead aggregator and its owner hundreds of thousands of dollars for allegedly directing consumers toward illegal loans that would be void in their states.
September 6 -
The ICBA is calling on regulators to remove Wells Fargo board members and senior management after a series of scandals have plagued the bank.
September 6 -
A perfect risk-based capital ratio obviously is preferable to an admittedly imperfect leverage ratio. The problem is there is no perfect risk-based measure.
September 6 -
Husband and wife claim they were fired for raising concerns about the bank’s sales practices; commercial mortgage-backed securities on pace to top last year’s volume.
September 6 -
The debate over the separation of banking and commerce has come roaring back, but instead of Walmart in a spotlight role, many banks have centered on a player they see as the new villain: fintech.
September 5 -
The first compliance deadline fell last week for the state’s strict new regulation. Banks are struggling with certain elements, such as multifactor authentication.
September 5 -
Payments startup UTRUST is calling its first step in building a bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments platform with consumer protections a huge success, despite events working against its industry in China.
September 5 -
With a blanket ban on initial coin offerings, China has sidestepped an issue plaguing regulators worldwide: are such tokens securities?
September 5 -
Nothing like revelations of a client’s Ponzi scheme that lead to your bank paying $4 million in anti-money-laundering fines. That’s what happened at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust, but its CEO argues its compliance overhaul has given the bank a competitive advantage in cosmopolitan New York and South Florida.
September 5 -
States must recognize how their patchwork of different regimes stifles innovation, but they also have an opportunity to help maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global fintech marketplace.
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