Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Elliptic, a startup that monitors the bitcoin network for suspicious patterns, has introduced anti-money-laundering data into its service through a partnership with LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
August 3 -
The linchpin of the federal government's payday lending proposal is a credit-reporting system for small-dollar loans created by the private sector, but the kinds of companies that could create it haven't stepped forward.
August 3 -
Bots have slowly begun to creep onto the online payments scene, and they could offer a whole new, simpler way to part with our cash.
August 3 -
WASHINGTON Federal bank regulators issued guidelines Tuesday for submissions outlining workplace diversity initiatives.
August 2 -
WASHINGTON State bank associations threw their support behind a regulatory relief bill on Tuesday in hopes the legislation can gain traction in the Senate.
August 2 -
WASHINGTON Regulators announced Tuesday that they are giving large banks with less than $100 billion in assets an additional year to file their living wills.
August 2 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau added its voice Tuesday to a chorus of other regulators in calling for sustainable foreclosure relief when the Home Affordable Modification Program expires at yearend.
August 2 -
In a political season teeming with tension around income inequality, racial economic disparities and animus toward the banking industry, reforming the Community Reinvestment Act seems like it should be a cornerstone of the debate. Yet the law has been almost entirely absent from the discussion. Here's why.
August 2 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau added its voice Tuesday to a chorus of other regulators in calling for sustainable foreclosure relief when the Home Affordable Modification Program expires at yearend.
August 2 -
The state bar's board of governors passed a rule change allowing credit unions to hold IOLTAs. The amendment still needs to be ratified by the Florida Supreme Court.
August 2 -
Whether it is EMV, NFC, HCE or TSP, there is certainly no shortage of acronyms within the payments ecosystem. And this is one trend that is here to stay.
August 2 -
Institutional structures and cultures loom large in how for-profit and not-for-profit institutions make the decision to issue pink slips.
August 1 -
CUs experience CEO turnover at roughly half the rate of other organizations, but a variety of factors play into how and when those terminations take place.
August 1 -
For smaller CUs, replacing a poorly performing CEO can often be just as costly as doing nothing.
August 1 -
CFPB TRID changes, NCUA comment request on information collection activities and a focus on regulatory relief for CUs during the legislative recess are all on the agenda for the industry this week.
August 1 -
Four years after the first states legalized marijuana, most bankers still want nothing to do with it.
July 31 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal Friday updating its mortgage disclosure rule did not give lenders what they wanted: an ability to correct errors after a loan has closed and a release from liability for technical violations. But the 293-page proposal did provide revisions that will help in compliance and the closing of more loans.
July 29 -
The National Credit Union Administration wielded a broad axe in July, issuing eight notices of prohibition to individuals who have been convicted of financial crimes.
July 29 -
MoneyGram International Inc., the worlds second-largest money transfer provider, fell the most in five months after posting profit that missed analysts estimates and lowering its revenue forecast for the year.
July 29 -
The CFPB updated its "Know Before You Owe" mortgage disclosure rule to provide more clarity to lenders. It has proposed additional tolerance provisions, clarified a partial exemption for housing finance agencies, extended the rule's coverage to all cooperative units, and provided more clarity about privacy and the sharing of information.
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