Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The soon-to-be-retiring chair of the House Financial Services Committee said Senate leaders have made a "commitment" to consider more changes.
May 17 -
Christian Sewing doesn’t only have to reshape the company, revive profits and improve morale, he has to get regulators off Deutsche Bank’s back.
May 17 -
It's too late for Congress to overturn the consumer bureau's regulation on short-term lending, but acting Director Mick Mulvaney will have plenty of chances to reshape it.
May 16 -
Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney has dropped agency plans to crack down on overdraft programs and large marketplace lenders. Here's what else he's changing.
May 16 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pitching a fake initial coin offering to educate investors on the pitfalls of too-good-to-be-true ventures.
May 16 -
Regulatory burden was the dominant theme of a roundtable discussion, but executives are also concerned about their ability to attract skilled workers and they have mixed feelings on how corporate tax cuts are affecting customers' decisions.
May 16 -
A long-anticipated financial rule could help law enforcement root out illegal activity, but it requires banks to keep extra-close tabs on certain business clients. That won't be easy.
May 16 -
Circle Internet Financial says it is now worth $3 billion following latest funding round; proposed changes would give banks more leeway to make some trades.
May 16 -
After months of delay, the House is planning to vote on legislation next week that would amend the Dodd-Frank Act.
May 15 -
President Trump has nominated Michael Bright, the current acting president and chief operating officer of Ginnie Mae, to head the agency full time.
May 15 -
Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney suggested that digital mortgages should be held to different standards than ones originated by credit unions and banks.
May 15 -
A pair of nominees to the Federal Reserve Board vowed Tuesday to protect the independence of the agency if confirmed, but avoided taking hard stances on pending regulatory issues.
May 15 -
Details are still scarce about how the payment networks’ universal checkout "button" will look, but each participant will have some branding representation.
May 15 -
The Supreme Court has sided with states in a dispute over sports gambling, a double victory for payment processors, which can use largely existing tools to serve an entirely new market.
May 15 -
The proposed change would give banks more leeway in making trades and put more onus on regulators to challenge their judgments, sources said.
May 15 -
The two major national credit union trade associations have sent recommendations for improving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s enforcement processes.
May 15 -
Freelance payment companies are taking advantage of the Trump administration's immigration policies, which are starting to drive more work to freelancers in the U.S. and overseas.
May 15 -
The open banking model is not very different from what Amazon brought about in retail. Banks have little choice but to embrace the concept, according to Nick Frankland, managing director of fintech at Legal and General.
May 15 -
Each year, 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the U.K. are forced under due to late payments. This is the net result of a culture where many large companies regularly make their suppliers wait far beyond agreed terms, before processing payment.
May 14 -
The Fed and FDIC are at odds over how proposed changes to the supplemental leverage ratio would change megabanks’ capital levels. Here's why both estimates are right but misleading.
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