Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The Federal Reserve Board and California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation want to ensure the shuttered bank makes good on its commitment to self-liquidate and make depositors whole. It also wants full cooperation on an investigation into FTX ties.
June 1 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is advising consumers to transfer money stored on nonbank digital payment apps such as PayPal, Venmo and Cash App to insured banks and credit unions.
June 1 -
Curt Farmer, CEO of the Dallas company, defends its management of a Treasury Department program that provides federal benefits on prepaid cards. He says a recent American Banker investigative article "ignores the fact that Comerica took steps to protect Direct Express users when it became aware that a third-party vendor had not followed program protocols for reviewing customer inquiries."
June 1 -
The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.
June 1 -
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Philip Jefferson, who has been tapped to serve as vice chair of the central bank, said the new rules will standardize capital requirements and increase transparency.
May 31 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the Evansville, Indiana, installment lender had engaged in "unfair, deceptive and abusive acts and practices," and failed to reimburse interest to consumers who had cancelled certain add-on products.
May 31 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in its quarterly banking profile that the banking industry remains resilient despite a challenging economic backdrop, but exposure to commercial real estate losses and interest rate risks could make continued stability difficult.
May 31 -
A full accounting of regulators' actions in the lead-up to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, as well as other recent bank failures, is necessary to restore public confidence in both the banking system and the government itself.
May 31 -
Carrie Tolstedt, the longtime head of retail banking at Wells, is resolving legal problems tied to her role in the bank's phony-accounts scandal. Earlier this year, she agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge as part of a deal that calls for up to 16 months behind bars.
May 31 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released fourth-quarter data last week showing a big drop in revenue from overdraft and nonsufficient-funds fees in 2022 compared with 2019 as big banks reduced or eliminated certain fees.
May 30 -
Comerica's shoddy handling of its Treasury contract to manage Social Security and veterans benefits — including outsourcing fraud claims to a vendor in Pakistan — is emblematic of how the banking industry treats the poor.
May 30 -
A Comerica Bank executive admitted to major failures in its handling of the Treasury Department's Direct Express program, including data and resolved fraud disputes sent to a vendor's office in Lahore, Pakistan, a "serious" contract violation.
May 29 -
Ever since Silicon Valley and Signature banks collapsed in March, a scramble began among regulators, politicians, bank executives and others to manage the fallout from this spring's banking crisis. Here are 10 predictions of what still lies ahead to be dealt with.
May 29 -
Stakeholders have been focused on what went wrong in the months before Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by regulators. However, essential risk management was missed more than a year ago.
May 29 -
To strengthen the industry, large regional banks should be subjected to heightened supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. should change how it assesses deposit insurance premiums.
May 29 -
The global accord's provision on supervision establishes broad authorities over risks not expressly covered in capital rules. The Federal Reserve's top regulator has already hinted that those authorities might be relied on more in the wake of this spring's bank failures.
May 26 -
The National Credit Union Administration is seeking to amend its definition of a "qualified charity" under its framework, which currently excludes those that serve past and present members of the armed forces.
May 25 -
Two former top bank regulators argue that efforts to eliminate risk from the business of banking is a fool's errand, and say it is time to refocus banks' managers and boards on the business of managing it.
May 25 -
With billions of dollars at stake, financial institutions weighed in on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal to cut credit card late fees to $8, claiming, in part, that small banks and credit unions will suffer economic harm if the plan goes into effect as proposed.
May 24 -
The justices ruled this week that a lower court should have ordered the FDIC to reconsider its lifetime ban of a Michigan banker instead of deferring to the agency's judgment. The decision could make financial regulators more hesitant to take certain enforcement actions, experts predict.
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