Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Some mortgage investors are refusing to buy home loans that are at risk of violations of new consumer-disclosure rules. The problem appears to be worst among nonagency jumbo loans purchased by private investors.
December 21 -
For steering the Winston-Salem, N.C., company through an extended period of industry adversity, while providing a blueprint for large-scale M&A, King has been named American Banker's Banker of the Year for 2015.
December 20 -
NCUA on Friday liquidated Bethex Federal Credit Union, based here, exactly three months after the regulator placed the troubled CU into conservatorship.
December 18 -
WASHINGTON The House and Senate have approved major spending and tax packages, which are now en route to the White House to be signed into law.
December 18 -
WASHINGTON The House and Senate have approved major spending and tax packages, which are now en route to the White House to be signed into law.
December 18 -
YUMA, Ariz. A.E.A. Federal Credit Union, based here, once again is under the control of its members after five years of conservatorship, NCUA said Friday.
December 18 -
The agency's Fraud Prevention Center, which is also designed for mobile use, provides information on types of frauds or scams; what to do, in the event of being a victim of fraud or identity theft; how to stay safe online; and how to contact NCUA partners for assistance.
December 18 -
The legal status of marijuana is likely to shift dramatically next year, with around ten states considering some form of decriminalization. But banks will likely have a longer wait until the rules around serving marijuana businesses are cleared up.
December 17 -
WASHINGTON The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released details Thursday of a proposal that would require large banks to submit a "recovery plan" for how they would survive a crisis.
December 17 -
Ramamurthi has transformed a 123-year-old institution with one branch serving a dusty Kansas town into a seedbed for disruptive financial technology not to mention a wildly profitable generator of fee income.
December 17 -
Though happy with some of the changes the agency made to its final IOLTA rule, CUNA and NAFCU cited areas where the regulator could have done more to improve the landscape for CUs.
December 17 -
Sen. Bob Corker championed a provision he added to the budget bill that would temporarily prevent the Treasury Department from recapitalizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and discussed other banking priorities in a sit-down interview with CU Journal affiliate American Banker.
December 17 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Thursday that it had fined one of the largest dealer-finance companies, CarHop, $6.5 million for inaccurately reporting consumer credit data.
December 17 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's payday loan proposal threatens many money services businesses on the front lines of stopping money-laundering and terrorist financing.
December 17 -
Despite months of intense lobbying, the financial services industry failed to secure a number of key reforms in Congress's must-pass spending package, unveiled Tuesday night.
December 16 -
TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosures, less affectionately known by mortgage providers as TRID, represented a sea change for the home loan industry. The new disclosures were mandated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to "streamline" the home loan experience for consumers, but they resulted in a great deal of extra effort by credit unions and their vendor partners.
December 16 -
Credit risk, interest rate risk and cybersecurity concerns pose growing risks to banks in the first half of 2016, according to a semiannual risk report issued Wednesday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
December 16 -
Despite months of intense lobbying, the banking industry failed to secure a number of key reforms in Congress's must-pass spending package, unveiled Tuesday night.
December 16 -
The central bank's "total loss absorbing capacity" proposal must be reworked to ensure that costs of huge failures don't fall on society at large.
December 16 -
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's unexpected move to require the largest banks to develop a "recovery plan" has raised questions about why the agency is moving now and how its mandate differs from regulatory requirements for institutions to develop "living wills."
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