PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2018

Tax reform played a key role for several corporate successes in the first quarter of 2018. “The optimism generated from corporate tax reform seems to have done little to persuade organizations to spend their cash during the early months of 2018,” Kaitz said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. Between 2008 and 2018, approximately $26 billion worth of fines were levied against banks for AML, KYC and sanctions noncompliance. financial services firms is $26.4

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Middle market companies need help navigating the complexities of accounts payable management, especially when it comes to cross-border, cross-currency payments. In a release, Tipalti said earlier this month that it saw an increase of 250 percent in customer bookings in the first half of 2019 compared to the first half of 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Marry tech and talent, then risk management can pay dividends, notes an upcoming PYMNTS webinar. He noted that in the financial services realm, firms are already heavily regulated and they struggle with the looming threat of consequences, should shortcomings arise, when it comes to risk management.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Earlier this year, CoinDesk data revealed more money was raised via ICO in the first quarter of 2018 than in the entirety of 2017, totaling $6.3 He is also CEO of his new venture Genesis , a company formed to provide consulting and asset management services in the context of cryptocurrencies. billion raised via ICO in July.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

GonzoBankers, 2018 has been a troublesome year. about the best and worst in banking for 2018 and get fired up to start again in ’19. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the 2018 GonzoBanker Awards ! Although all banks faced stock headwinds in 2018, we give the nod to William Demchak at PNC Financial Services.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2020

The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR cessation and transition risk.” (LIBOR is the acronym for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate.).

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Nothing seems to put a bounce in a banker’s step more than a tax break and regulatory relief, and this bountiful energy was radiating at Bank Director’s annual “mecca” for bank M&A in Phoenix last week – Acquire or be Acquired. For those in the know – simply AOBA. The chatter at AOBA centered on three important topics: #1: The Breaks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The change may have been telegraphed more than a year ago in October 2018, when Mick Mulvaney, who had been serving as acting director of the agency, said that the CFPB was working on a new regulation to define those practices, as reported in The Wall Street Journal. Digital Taxes, Abroad.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. It is likely that regulators will soon ask banks to come up with a plan.

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Abrigo

JUNE 10, 2020

The regulators don’t care what your budget is,” Luttrell says. But inadequate staffing appears in regulatory consent orders more often than many people would expect, and regulators are not sympathetic when it comes to violations as a result of underemployment in compliance. Get adequate resources. Focus BSA/AML resources on risk.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Governments rely on tax revenues to fuel the vital services they provide to residents and businesses – from firefighting and public education to water system repair and road maintenance. Retail sales taxes have long been key sources of state governments’ budgets and have been their greatest single stream of revenue since the mid-1900s. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It has been a busy year for the world of bank regulations, particularly Know Your Customer (KYC). Financial services regulations are notorious for their complexity and ever-changing demands for financial institutions and corporates, but another fuel for development in the KYC space was the FinTech community.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Launched in 2018, the project monitors products sent via several steps to the customer, including product returns, to prevent counterfeit drives from being sent back. In other news, Brazil’s Tax Authority has announced that transactions involving cryptocurrencies must now be reported to the Department of Federal Revenue ( RFB ).

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Change has been long overdue for the wealth management industry, which is facing growing competition, outdated legacy tech , thinning margins , and an aging client base. Digitization will be crucial for wealth managers looking to capture or retain this generation of clients. In turn, this is driving revenue for big banks. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

Both corporates and banks have said Know Your Customer ( KYC ) regulations are their most pressing compliance concerns, with nearly three-quarters of businesses with more than $1 billion in revenues pointing to KYC as their top challenge. ” and an overall rise in complexity of current regulations. ” Technological Troubles.

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FICO

MAY 25, 2017

million digital records exposed the dark deeds of dirty money and tax evasion and burst the bubble of pretense that the world is effective at dealing with corruption. One in five banks in Asia Pacific say that they expect tax evasion to increase 100 to 500 percent over last year’s levels according to a recent poll by FICO.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Small business owners have a lot on their plates today and, depending on who one asks, top concerns range from taxes to late invoice payments. Still, less than half said they expect their local economies and the national economy to improve in 2018. Eighty-one percent of U.S. billion in working capital is on the books for U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The survey also found that the role of the CFO at mid-market firms is evolving from one that focuses on managing company financials to one with added responsibilities of helping to form company strategies, identifying new opportunities and expanding their companies’ use of technology. ” .

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The importance of FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Rule , effective May of 2018, is evident, and regulator expectations are high. The CDD Rule amended the Bank Secrecy Act regulations to strengthen customer due diligence requirements for financial institutions. BSA Rules and Regulation. In fact, the U.S. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

” Accounting strategies can not only boost transparency for regulators and visibility for a firm’s own leadership, but regulators say they can also promote security. ’s 9,000 publicly listed companies spiked in 2018 after consistent declines since 2006. .” Last October, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

Calk ignored internal standards at the lender and lied to regulators in order to approve the loans. During his trial in 2018, prosecutors contended he was struggling to manage mountains of debt. The indictment shines a spotlight once again on Manafort’s financial situation when he was working for the Trump campaign.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The current quarter included a 10-cent per share income tax expense. . Officials said non-interest income was down $684 million from the first quarter of 2018, to about $9 billion in the second quarter, citing lower mortgage banking fees and other income. per share, while earnings came in at 98 cents. Revenue fell to $21.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Nowhere does that ring truer than in the nascent and growing legal cannabis industry, where billions of dollars flow the old-fashioned way — hand to hand, because of the clash between federal and state regulations over its legality. As noted in this space earlier in the year, roughly $5 billion in taxes was handled — via cash — last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

workforce (36 percent) participated in the gig economy during 2018. A December 2018 survey from Connect Solutions found that this kind of remote employment offers perks for both workers and employers. This helps gig workers better manage their finances as they know exactly when their income will be accessible to them.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

BSA was intended to detect illicit activity through cash and monetary instruments to catch tax evaders using secret foreign bank accounts. The importantance of the BSA tole came to be paramount to the entrie risk management program and included as part of the federal safety and soundness examinations. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

trillion) in 2018 alone, and growing at double digits into the current year. Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates. Working with Regulators. Top markets include Japan, the United States and Korea.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Fifty-four percent of small business owners say they are optimistic about the national economy , found Bank of America’s 2018 Business Advantage Small Business Owner Report. More than 90 percent of survey respondents said they feel the government did not adequately prepare the small business community for the new tax code.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

Analysis from Bloomberg BNA in its “ 2017 Outlook — International Payroll ” report released just before the new year suggests data protection has become a paramount concern for payroll managers. One of these regulations is the Privacy Shield agreement, which regulates how data is moved between the EU and U.S. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

As the price of bitcoin surged this week, cryptocurrency (namely, Facebook’s Libra) has been under increased scrutiny by regulators. Even if exchanges are done electronically, they are monitored and regulated by central banks. The folks who bought their bitcoin at around $4,000 are feeling pretty smart. in the latest quarter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

According to Jake Benson, CEO of back-office software provider Libra , that’s because traditional accounting and auditing software solutions aren’t compatible with blockchain, rendering them unable to access, manage and analyze financial data stored on distributed ledgers. Regulation can rapidly change,” said Benson.

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ForwardBanker

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) train that left the station in 2018, fueled by things like tax reform, interest rates inching up, and FI-friendly regulation keeps on chugging along. American Banker reports that the pace of M&A slowed slightly in 2019, but even so, more than 180 mergers were announced as of the end of.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”. As regulators begin to consider blockchain regulations, many have signaled a desire not to hamper innovation while doing so.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

As for the mechanics: An “account aggregator” system is being created by banks, and will be regulated and licensed by the central bank. The aggregators have duties as fiduciaries to manage consent. To look at Europe as prologue, recent findings from the CMA9 (shorthand for the nine largest banks in the U.K.),

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

businesses are attracted to digital invoicing for a slew of financial benefits: faster, more efficient accounts payable and reconciliation processes, a reduction in the threat of errors due to manual data entry and ability to capture early payment discounts thanks to an accelerated invoice management process. In the U.S., Still, U.S.

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Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2015

The guidance provides a framework for both financial institutions and regulators with respect to implementing expected credit loss models. Bank and credit union professionals left the webinar with a greater understanding of items that will likely require planning on the part of senior management or the board.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

As for the mechanics: An “account aggregator” system is being created by banks, and will be regulated and licensed by the central bank. The aggregators have duties as fiduciaries to manage consent. To look at Europe as prologue, recent findings from the CMA9 (shorthand for the nine largest banks in the U.K.),

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