Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the Cincinnati bank engaged in aggressive sales practices and open bank and credit card accounts without consumers' authorization in order to meet sales targets.
March 9 -
Sen. Mark Warner led a group of Democratic senators in calling on bank, credit union and GSE regulators to give detailed instructions on helping consumer and commercial borrowers hurt by the COVID-19 outbreak.
March 9 -
In announcing plans to export Just Walk Out to other retailers, Amazon rattled the emerging autonomous checkout industry and raised questions about its ability to amass even more data than it already has about consumer consumption patterns.
March 9 -
The House Financial Services Committee is still planning to have former Wells Fargo board members Betsy Duke and James Quigley testify after they announced their resignations.
March 9 -
The company disclosed that an internal review of a now-discontinued loan program found that employees engaged in misconduct tied to income verification and requirements, among other things.
March 9 -
The network offering an array of vendor services to member banks named former trade group chiefs Camden Fine and Ed Yingling to its board and has hired former American Banker Editor-in-Chief Rob Blackwell as chief content officer and head of external affairs.
March 9 -
The bank's board chair and fellow director James Quigley abruptly resigned early Monday. Both are scheduled to appear before the House Financial Services Committee this week.
March 9 -
Maybe Congress shouldn’t be so quick to change laws without real-world input.
March 9 -
The agencies recommend steps financial institutions should take to proactively prevent disruption of operations, minimize contact between staff and consumers, and plan for how affected employees reenter the workplace, among other things.
March 9 -
The House Financial Services Committee is expected to question two of the bank's former board members, raising public scrutiny to a new level for bank directors.
March 8 -
The agencies recommend steps banks should take to proactively prevent disruption of operations, minimize contact between staff and customers, and plan for how affected employees reenter the workplace, among other things.
March 6 -
The agency's effort to engage with lawmakers on a whistleblower award program is one of three initiatives the bureau announced to advance its strategy of preventing consumer harm.
March 6 -
The challenge has been aligning the data-sharing ecosystem in a way that simplifies access and enhances consumer control while ensuring a high level of security, says Finicity's Steve Smith.
March 6 -
Wells Fargo remains the TBTF poster child and regulators continue to do too little to address the problem. And as always, small banks suffer collateral damage.
March 6 -
Most states have some kind of pricing limit on consumer loans. But proposals for a national usury law divide even Democrats, some of whom are concerned about restricting credit.
March 5 -
As part of a review, the agency said it had identified requirements dealing with operating subsidiaries, noncontrolling investments by banks and other corporate activities that were no longer necessary.
March 5 -
The bank said it was Sloan's decision to retire, but a new report from House Democrats reveals that Fed and OCC officials made moves behind the scenes in 2018 and 2019 to pressure the bank's board to remove him.
March 5 -
The agency says it is not cutting its workforce but that the new strategy is necessary because it has an unusually high number of workers near retirement age.
March 5 -
Credit union groups are hailing the introduction of a bill to change the bureau’s leadership structure, but similar bills have been introduced in the past and gone nowhere.
March 5 -
The banking regulators have announced that they are postponing next week’s National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference because of growing health concerns about the virus outbreak.
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