Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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With plenty of cash on hand, many commercial firms have had little need to tap existing credit lines.
June 14 -
Marc Dann, a former Ohio attorney general, has a plan to publicly maintain the CFPB's consumer complaint database if acting Director Mick Mulvaney shuts it down.
June 14 -
The rule hews closely to a 2016 proposal but the central bank made a notable change to reflect a higher threshold for banks considered "systemically important."
June 14 -
It’s possible for a cryptocurrency to begin as a security and then transform into another type of asset, said William Hinman, who heads the regulator's division of corporation finance.
June 14 -
The OCC chief’s bizarre statements in House testimony produced shock waves that reached the Senate Banking Committee Thursday.
June 14 -
Proposed changes to Dodd-Frank's ban on proprietary trading are unnecessary and put the markets at risk.
June 14 -
Security Group was fined $5 million for abusive collection tactics; the Dutch payments company is now valued at nearly $16 billion.
June 14 -
Ellen Zimiles, global head of investigations and compliance at Navigant Consulting, shares what she's learned about testing and implementing AI in compliance departments, filing defensive SARs, and hiring the right people to maintain an AI system.
June 14 -
The CFPB ordered Security Group Inc. to pay $5 million for making illegal threats, including that consumers could go to jail.
June 13 -
In his inaugural hearing as comptroller of the currency, Joseph Otting defended his decision not to publicly rebuke banks for Wells Fargo-like problems.
June 13 -
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the agency has its hand full between proposals on liquidity and capital requirements and additional mandates made by the recently enacted regulatory relief law.
June 13 -
The House Financial Services Committee is preparing to vote on legislation to modernize anti-money-laundering rules, but the latest version of the bill excludes a key provision involving the collection of beneficial ownership information.
June 13 -
Six Senate Democrats are asking the SEC's internal watchdog to investigate a Republican commissioner who berated Citigroup executives in a private meeting over the bank's decision to curtail some of the business it does with companies that sell guns.
June 13 -
Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney had sided with two industry trade groups that sued the CFPB in April to invalidate the tough restrictions.
June 13 -
A bill moving through the California Legislature seeks to tame the largely unregulated world of online small-business lending. If passed, it would be the first of its kind nationally, but so far it has failed to satisfy either the industry or its critics.
June 12 -
With the question of a federal charter still looming, Treasury's last report on changes to the financial regulatory system will focus on nonbanks and new tech startups.
June 12 -
Mick Mulvaney is gutting the consumer watchdog, and it bodes poorly for hardworking Americans.
June 12 -
Legislation with bipartisan support would raise the threshold for reporting suspicious activity, a goal banks have long sought.
June 12 -
The agency proposed new minimum capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would only go into effect if the government ends its conservatorships.
June 12 -
Federal district court in Virginia finds plaintiff had so standing to sue – again.
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