Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The spots "left out a few things," Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, said at a hearing Tuesday.
February 15 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns about exclusive government contracts and the fees that recipients of public benefits get charged. “Barriers to choice kill competition and can harm families who need every dollar to make ends meet," said Director Rohit Chopra.
February 15 -
Citigroup awarded Chief Executive Jane Fraser $22.5 million for her work in 2021 after she assumed the top job in February and helped guide the bank through regulatory hurdles.
February 15 -
Adrienne Harris said the New York State Department of Financial Services will concentrate more on issues that have a big impact on people’s pocketbooks. The agency announced a move Monday that will likely save money for consumers who rely on check cashers.
February 14 -
The crypto lender, which didn’t admit or deny wrongdoing, had been accused of illegally offering a product that pays customers high interest rates to lend out their digital tokens. The company sold the accounts to U.S. investors without registering them as securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission had said.
February 14 -
After the Financial Conduct Authority told Klarna, Openpay, Clearpay and Laybuy to make their contract terms clearer, three of the companies refunded late-fee charges to consumers.
February 14 -
The largest U.S. banks will be tested against a hypothetical massive surge in unemployment and a crash in commercial real estate in the Federal Reserve's annual stress tests, according to scenarios announced Thursday.
February 10 -
The Chicago bank, which is being acquired by Old National Bancorp, agreed to pay roughly $250,000 under an agreement with the Federal Reserve.
February 10 -
The Federal Trade Commission recently issued an advisory opinion that could make it easier for consumers to recover their legal costs from banks in situations where they were defrauded by a car dealer.
February 9 -
Law enforcement officials want Visa, Mastercard and American Express to help curtail sales of "ghost guns," which are unregistered mail-order firearms that buyers assemble at home.
February 9 -
There’s no universal case for central-bank digital currencies, according to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who urged policymakers to carefully weigh trade-offs as financial innovation enters a new phase.
February 9 -
The U.S. Treasury Department defeated a blue-state challenge to a rule that exempts buyers of high-interest loans from state interest rate caps.
February 8 -
Banks that rank high on a Fintech Similarity Score made the most government-backed small-business loans outside their local area, a study found.
February 8 -
Deutsche Bank is seeking to tighten oversight of employees' electronic communication amid a clampdown by U.S. regulators on the widespread use of services such as WhatsApp in the financial industry.
February 4 -
Only 12% of large and regional banks in the U.S. and Canada are running the scenario analyses that regulators are poised to recommend, according to a new survey. Observers say progress has been faster on the other side of the Atlantic, as European banks and their regulators have moved more quickly to develop a uniform system for quantifying risks.
February 3 -
The process is expected to begin this summer and extend into late 2023, ultimately saving the Iowa company about $20 million annually.
February 3 -
Four-fifths of the state's community banks have disappeared since the start of the 2008 financial crisis. The founder of the newly chartered Scottsdale Community Bank calls the market "drastically underbanked."
February 3 -
The wirehouse and its attorney “manipulated the arbitrator selection process” and “introduced perjured testimony,” according to the ruling.
February 2 -
The draft legislation authored by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., would allow "qualified" nonbanks to issue stablecoins and create an insurance fund to offset losses.
February 2 -
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said it’s too early to contemplate adjusting capital requirements for U.S. banks based on how much risk they face from climate change.
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