Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Both Mick Mulvaney and Leandra English showed up to lead the agency this morning, but credit union trade associations have only addressed Trump’s appointee.
November 27 -
The former bank CEO is widely expected to continue the recent push to implement a more industry-friendly agenda.
November 27 -
Leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to be resolved quickly after a federal court Monday assigned a judge appointed by President Trump to resolve a lawsuit over who will become the agency's acting director.
November 27 -
President Trump’s pick to head the Federal Reserve will face the Senate Banking Committee this week. Here’s what to watch for.
November 27 -
President Trump has tapped Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as interim head of the CFPB. He has taken tough stances on the CFPB, its payday lending rule, housing finance reform and other issues pending before the agency.
November 26 -
The Trump administration insisted Saturday that OMB Director Mick Mulvaney was the rightful interim leader of the CFPB, but Democrats said that the appointment was illegal. It remains unclear who is legally in charge.
November 24 -
The outcome of a case testing the president's power to fire a CFPB director will come too late to impact Richard Cordray, but may affect President Trump's interim and final picks to lead the agency.
November 22 -
Norwegian banks have been keenly aware of — and concerned about — the prospect of mobile wallets developed in Silicon Valley affecting their own services. So much so that a group of banks has begun preparing to merge their payments systems into one platform and have it up and running by next August.
November 22 -
The federal banking regulators should create a working group that, rather than propose new rules and regulations, would clarify the application of existing rules to blockchain technology.
November 22 -
NCUA’s approval of a new approach to its overhead transfer rate will benefit all credit unions, but the movement must still closely watch how its funds are spent.
November 22 -
The most immediate threat to the safeguards underpinning a well-functioning banking sector involves the failure of regulators to hold banks accountable.
November 22 -
The trial of Stefan Buck was an unusual courtroom showdown in the decade-old fight by the U.S. against tax evasion aided by financial institutions in Switzerland.
November 21 -
The digital-currency startup, which markets software to banks, appears keen to signal that it wants to play by the rules.
November 21 -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg raised concerns about provisions that would significantly increase the systemic risk threshold for large banks, as well as one that would change the calculation for the supplementary leverage ratio.
November 21 -
Hoping to streamline the payment options across Europe, the European Payments Council has launched the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme.
November 21 -
A U.S. alcohol maker's $191 million investment in Canadian cannabis could raise difficult questions for the banks that have lent big sums of money to the company.
November 21 -
The banks fell in global regulators’ ranking of the institutions that pose the biggest threats to the financial system, and authorities recommended they face lower capital surcharges.
November 21 -
When CFPB Director Cordray resigns in two weeks, will the agency grind to a halt? Kate Berry reports on the embattled agency.
November 21 -
Beyond overall tax cuts, there's also potential benefits for investors in fintech and payments innovation, writes Rick Lazio, former Republican Representative from New York and current senior vice president at alliantgroup.
November 21 -
A U.S. alcohol maker's $191 million investment in Canadian cannabis could raise difficult questions for the banks that have lent big sums of money to the company.
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