Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The agency issued an interpretive rule earlier this month that said digital marketers must comply with federal consumer financial protection law. Banks will need to double down on compliance when engaging with these companies.
August 25 -
The Center for Responsible Lending, the Woodstock Institute and other left-leaning groups argue that the $13.4 billion merger will harm low-income communities, reduce small-business lending and add to systemic risk.
August 24 -
The Wyoming crypto bank is attempting to force the Federal Reserve's hand on master account policy. The Fed would rather go at its own pace.
August 24 -
Former Goldman banker Brijesh Goel was arrested last month for insider trading. His friend, ex-Barclays trader Akshay Niranjan, is "co-conspirator 1" in the criminal complaint against Goel, and the man who turned on his buddy, according to people familiar with the matter.
August 24 -
Texas is taking steps that could cost BlackRock, UBS Group and eight other finance firms business with the state after finding them to be hostile to the energy industry.
August 24 -
Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said the issues raised by the sanctions affect the "right to privacy of every American citizen."
August 23 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to issue guidance soon around fraud liability on digital payment platforms, and the thorniest question concerns who pays for customers' mistakes.
August 23 -
Banks have been barred from trading on their own account for almost a decade because Congress wanted to quash any potential conflict of interest. They should hold themselves to the same standard.
August 23 -
Banking trade groups are saying the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s plan to increase the deposit insurance fund is poorly timed and based on flawed assumptions.
August 22 -
For a government agency that prefers to move gradually, the change at the top has come fast, thanks in large part to increased pressure in the wake of a national reckoning around diversity. But it has also fallen short in some ways.
August 22 -
A luxury yacht formerly owned by sanctioned Russian businessman Dmitry Pumpyansky will be sold at auction on Tuesday after the billionaire failed to repay JPMorgan Chase a loan, according to an auctioneer's website.
August 22 -
Small-business owners who can't get loans from traditional sources need alternative ways to access capital.
August 22 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asked a federal judge to force Block to fully comply with a pair of investigative demands related to its Cash App payments tool.
August 21 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued the letters ordering the companies to stop making false or misleading representations of deposit insurance.
August 19 -
Carlos Garcia of Professional Holding Corp. in Coral Gables would serve as CEO of the holding company for Nave Bank, which seeks FDIC approval to be the first federally insured digital bank in Puerto Rico.
August 19 -
Citigroup's markets operation had hundreds of blind spots, allowing for potentially abusive transactions to go unnoticed in almost 900,000 trades processed every day at the bank's Canary Wharf headquarters for more than two years.
August 19 -
How many more decisions will CFPB Director Rohit Chopra make without appropriate stakeholder input?
August 19 -
The Federal Reserve looks to be paying closer attention to a potential pinch-point that rankled dollar funding markets almost three years ago and could at some stage become a catalyst for ending early officials' plans to shrink the U.S. central bank's expanded balance sheet.
August 19 -
As regulators mull the Toronto bank's deal for First Horizon and broader guidelines around bank combinations, community groups called for stronger investment commitments from the two banks before they are allowed to merge.
August 18 -
A recent announcement from the CFPB makes clear that the agency expects banks to adopt multifactor authentication, password management and security patching.
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