Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman was convicted on eight fraud counts, including two counts of bank fraud. He faces jail time on each count.
August 21 -
The employee who made sexual harassment allegations against the agency’s director also claims Watt withheld her pay increase after she refused his advances.
August 21 -
The Troy, Mich., company is operating unfettered by regulatory orders for the first time in a decade, and its CEO says Flagstar now has the flexibility to pull the trigger faster on deals and accelerate its diversification beyond mortgages.
August 21 -
Along with activating contactless payments at its store terminals, Costco has opened its checkout lines to Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay. But there’s a catch.
August 21 -
The senator's proposed legislation includes a ban on individual stock ownership and restrictions on government employees joining the lobbying ranks.
August 21 -
FVCBancorp will use part of the proceeds to help pay for its pending acquisition of Colombo Bank.
August 21 -
Thibault Fulconis recently became CFO of the digital banking venture Varo Money, which has applied for a national bank charter.
August 21 -
The Community Reinvestment Act can lower — not increase — bank credit availability in some low-income regions, and the OCC should reconsider holding fintechs to the same standards with its new charter.
August 21 -
To compete with fintech startups, banks need to find more ways to use the mountains of data already at their disposal.
August 21 -
One expert offers credit union leaders "the best defense against risk" and lessons from previous economic crises.
August 21 -
At the recent CU Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, credit union representatives offered their ideas for the next round of reg relief.
August 21 -
Seven months have passed since the U.K.’s biggest banks were mandated to release open APIs for their customers’ account information under open banking and European Union PSD2 regulation. The process was completed by mid-April, but it fell short of creating a truly open system for data sharing.
August 21 -
Bank of America and several other large U.S. financial services companies, as part an effort organized by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Western Union, have published resources to help smaller banks spot signs of forced labor and kidnapping.
August 20 -
Several states pledged to compensate for a slowdown in enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Mick Mulvaney, but their efforts have been complicated by tight budgets and doubts over whether such initiatives are necessary.
August 20 -
The banking industry has been raising alarms about the growth of a few credit unions, but the critiques ignore the vast size differences between the two sectors and the tremendous growth banks have seen since the crisis.
August 20 -
The banking industry has been raising alarms about the growth of a few credit unions, but the critiques ignore the vast size differences between the two sectors and the tremendous growth banks have seen since the crisis.
August 20 -
After the National Credit Union Administration asked for comments on proposed revisions and expansions to its Payday Alternative Loan program, credit unions offered their suggestions for how to fix it.
August 20 -
After 20 years of working with a clunky, time-consuming 3-D Secure authorization method for online purchases, the wheels are finally in motion to get the upgraded 2.0 version in place for merchants and banks, granting access to more data for spotting fraud.
August 20 -
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., released a survey of lending practices that he said point to practices such as forced arbitration clauses and extracting a customer’s credit score to determine creditworthiness.
August 17 -
The Oakland bank has raised $25 million through a private placement of common stock.
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