Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Moody's is working on a scoring system for stablecoins, the crypto sector's most traded tokens, as the asset class grows and faces increased scrutiny from regulators and investors.
January 26 -
On Tuesdays, this band of seven Republican senators, which includes some of the chamber's leading obstructionists, meets to plot ways to extract austere spending concessions from Democrats in exchange for their help in averting a catastrophic U.S. payments default.
January 26 -
Morgan Stanley fined some of its own bankers more than $1 million each for conducting business on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms, the latest fallout from an industrywide probe that saw U.S. regulators impose the record penalties for monitoring lapses.
January 26 -
Interest rates, liquidity and credit are among the National Credit Union Administration's top concerns.
January 25 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Silvergate's connection with crypto and the traditional banking system raises the specter of a crypto collapse.
January 25 -
Senate Democrats and banks want to subject industrial loan companies to Fed supervision, but even without legislation observers say the FDIC is skeptical of new applications.
January 25 -
BNP Paribas's Frankfurt offices were raided by German prosecutors as part of their vast investigation into the Cum-Ex scandal that has swept up Wall Street's biggest banks.
January 25 -
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is standing by the state's commercial financing disclosure law, urging more protections for small-business financings and arguing that federal consumer law does not not apply to commercial lending.
January 24 -
During a hearing on racial bias in home valuation, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau questions the Appraisal Foundation's "weird" regulatory structure.
January 24 -
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen advised Congress that her department is deploying an additional accounting maneuver to avert breaching the federal debt limit.
January 24 -
Rising demand for compliance staffers to help banks meet stress test requirements has increased the chances of lower profitability, according to new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
January 23 -
Working appraisers say government efforts to curb discrimination are pressuring them to inflate values, putting banks and borrowers at risk.
January 23 -
In a state where two-thirds of residents use a credit union, a growing populace translates to even more membership, employment and loan growth with those institutions, according to data from the National Credit Union Administration.
January 23 -
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new system that would allow the blockchain's users to generate obfuscated addresses and receive funds privately on the network.
January 23 -
The National Credit Union Administration put Valwood Park Federal Credit Union into its care this month, citing concerns of unsafe and unsound business practices.
January 23 -
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Credit cards with rewards are rewarding only for those who know how to profit from the system, according to a paper released by the Federal Reserve.
January 23 -
More than half of all cross-border payment fees are concealed in exchange rate markups that few consumers understand.
January 23 -
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Signature Bank will only handle user transactions of more than $100,000 as the bank decreases its exposure to digital-asset markets.
January 23 -
The Wall Street Journal reported the Fed is investigating Goldman Sachs' Marcus division, the company's effort to reach U.S. consumers that has been scaled back. The New York bank's stock fell 2.5% after the news.
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