Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Meet the new housing finance reform plan, same as the old ones. While that gives it legs, it also presents big challenges.
June 22 -
Jan Lynn Owen works at the epicenter of the digital revolution, but she is unambiguously cautious about the fintech industry.
June 22 -
How the big banks fared in the Fed's latest round of stress testing; what's on new FDIC chair Jelena McWilliams' plate; why banks' biggest risk factor may be employees who don't speak up; and more from this week's most-read stories.
June 22 -
Credit unions and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau share a similar mission, so why does the CFPB continue to make it difficult for CUs to do business?
June 22 -
While Europe is still making sense of an international Visa outage in early June, fintech disruptor TransferWise experienced its own outage that lasted up to 11 hours on Thursday, with website, app and card payments unavailable to the company’s 1 million-plus users.
June 22 -
Judge says agency should not exist; the Fed says the largest banks are “strongly capitalized” and could withstand a severe crisis.
June 22 -
Readers weigh in on Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting's comments about discrimination, opine on President Trump’s pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, respond to new anti-money-laundering legislation and more.
June 21 -
The company said the aim of a redesign and additional automation is to make its compliance software easier for bankers to use.
June 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure is an infringement on the authority of the executive branch, a New York federal judge said Thursday.
June 21 -
A senior Treasury department official said it's an "adapt or die" situation for regulators and financial firms in the midst of a growing fintech space.
June 21 -
All 35 banks passed the Federal Reserve's first round of tests, but their results were not as stellar as last year's.
June 21 -
The plan would end the GSE conservatorships and create an explicit federal guarantee, but it's unclear if even other parts of the Trump administration support it.
June 21 -
A new rule from the NCUA is designed to curry more favor with judges by establishing a detailed application process for expansion-minded credit unions. Banks complain it would be too permissive.
June 21 -
During NAFCU’s annual conference, a panel of experts highlighted some of the legal and regulatory changes that may still be in store for credit unions.
June 21 -
Some continue to doubt there will be a premium cut, while others say there's no telling which way Brian Montgomery will go.
June 21 -
A South Dakota regulator seeks to liquidate ReliaMax Surety, which provides default insurance for many private student loans held by credit unions.
June 21 -
From regulations such as GDPR and PSD2 to conversations at major conferences, financial services and payment companies are coming to grips with how vital it is to step up ID protection, according to Lina Andolf-Orup, global product marketing manager at Fingerprints.
June 21 -
U.K.-based fintech Revolut has entered the Russian payments market through a partnership with Russian payments firm Qiwi, and announced plans to apply for a U.S. banking license.
June 21 -
As House members wrote to AG Sessions, the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Union also filed an amicus brief supporting Department of Labor FCU, which saw an ADA-related suit dismissed earlier this year.
June 20 -
The acting agency chief defended the “zero tolerance” policy while praising the permanent CFPB nominee suspected of having been involved in implementing it.
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