Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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After the turbulence of the banking crisis, here are a dozen ideas experts have for keeping the financial system healthy, from American Banker's BankThink op-ed section.
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Front-running schemes by the bank's foreign exchange desk defrauded clients of millions of dollars. In 2017, the Federal Reserve cited the lackluster oversight for failing to stop it.
August 24 -
Banking regulators have been debating how to reform the implementing regulations for the Community Reinvestment Act across two presidential administrations. But despite banks' urging to slow down, regulators are poised to finish the job in early fall.
August 24 -
UBS Group AG is expected to announce soon that it's fully integrating Credit Suisse's domestic bank, ending months of speculation about the future of the business.
August 24 -
Most financial firms are failing to see how the natural world impacts their business, but they're about to wise up — quickly.
August 24 -
While federal efforts to provide funding for minority small businesses wither, a lawsuit seeks to shut down an effective source of private capital.
August 24 -
The four banks agreed to pay $499 million and also cooperate in the litigation against Bank of America Corp., the sole remaining defendant.
August 24 -
A new state regulation brings consumer-style rules to the small business realm, extending California regulators' ability to crack down on nonbank lenders that engage in questionable practices. Observers believe that it could be a model for other states.
August 23 -
The agency will hold an open meeting next month to issue the proposal for banks with at least $100 billion of assets. It will also discuss changes to resolution plan standards.
August 23 -
News of the delisting, prompted by ongoing delays related to filing its 2022 annual report, triggered a selloff of the Philadelphia-based company's battered stock.
August 22 -
The Alabama-based regional bank didn't effectively track whether some loans complied with flood insurance regulations, according to the Fed. Regions said that it had fixed the issue by 2017.
August 22 -
The lack of affordable housing is becoming an increasingly acute political and economic problem. But a few small tweaks to a Federal Housing Administration loan program could unlock prospective homeowners' potential to solve that problem for themselves.
August 22 -
The American Bankers Association and Bank Policy Institute Tuesday urged bank regulators to delay the finalization of its Community Reinvestment Act rule, saying regulators have not calibrated the rule to account for upcoming capital changes or considered whether courts will find the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure constitutional.
August 22 -
A new reporting requirement for banks with at least $100 billion of assets would push seven banks and two holding companies into a stricter regulatory category.
August 22 -
Banks are holding their fintech partners to a higher compliance standard as regulatory scrutiny of banking-as-a-service increases.
August 22 -
Figure, Oportun and Brex are among the fintechs that have dropped their applications for a banking charter.
August 22 -
John Paul Dillon pleaded guilty to nearly $1 million in fraud related to COVID-19 emergency small-business programs, including the Payroll Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and a fraudulent loan application for a mortgage.
August 21 -
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted federally chartered banks permission Monday to close branches in California, Nevada and Arizona affected by Tropical Storm Hilary.
August 21 -
Congress must act to ban nonbanks from issuing stablecoins. The products are virtually equivalent to bank deposits, and should be regulated as such.
August 21 -
"Their criminal case is likely to move faster than this civil suit, and vindication there may also neutralize some of the negative publicity about which they complain," the judge in the case wrote.
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