CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions of the House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing entitled “ An Examination of Regulators’ Efforts to Preserve and Promote Minority Depository Institutions ” on November 20, 2019. This hearing will focus on the prudential regulators that oversee MDIs.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 9, 2019

Modernization of the Community Reinvestment Act. Banks and credit unions must learn about these upcoming changes, adjust for them, and meanwhile continue to operate their existing institutions and meet customers’ needs while following all of the regulations that come with being a financial institution. See the entire agenda here.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

30), Reuters reported , noting that the company is struggling to overcome “collateral damage” resulting from a slowing national economic and a broader “crisis,” the publication said, in India’s lending sector. billion in foreign loans so far in 2019, down from $2 billion during the same timeframe a year prior.

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Abrigo

JULY 1, 2021

By Vanessa Russell, Founder and Executive Director of Love Never Fails According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline , working in the financial industry provides you the opportunity to report suspicious behavior involving 92% of the various types of human trafficking. BSA Rules and Regulation. Let’s keep it going! BSA Training.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 9, 2019

The Bulletin rescinds and replaces an attachment to OCC Bulletin 1996-11 entitled “Community Reinvestment Act: Guidelines for Requesting Designation as a Wholesale or Limited-Purpose Institution.”

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Abrigo

JUNE 13, 2022

According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), this heartless crime is most likely under-reported due to victims' embarrassment. More banks are reporting to APS, rising from 62% in 2017 to 81% in 2019 and 78% in 2021. The latest survey indicates that COVID-19 has impacted bank community engagement. BSA Rules and Regulation.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 8, 2019

Supreme Court’s Inclusive Communities decision and confirms its plans to hold a symposium on disparate impact and the ECOA. The Bureau also references former Acting Director Mulvaney’s statement in May 2018 that the Bureau intended to reexamine the disparate impact doctrine in light of the U.S.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On January 1, 2021, the Senate voted into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The AMLA is extensive, and there are many steps involved before FinCEN can implement the act, such as conducting studies, writing regulations, and publishing guidance. See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now is the time for community financial institutions to pay attention. The CBOT penalty is a solid reminder to all community financial institutions that a robust AML program is critical in guarding against money laundering and terrorist financing risks regardless of size and risk. and CDD will be top of regulators' minds for some time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Earlier in 2019, Checkout.com announced a $230 million Series A funding round. . As a company whose own leadership team has meaningful connections to the French community, we look forward to being a part of that growth.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

government affairs and public policy, said in a letter to the Fed that Google “worked closely” with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to build Google Pay for the Indian market. NPCI, the payment regulator governed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), launched real-time payments in 2016. billion in 2019.

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Abrigo

MARCH 25, 2020

Key Takeaways Banking regulators say short-term, COVID-19-related loan modifications shouldn't automatically be categorized as TDRs. Regulators also announced other guidance tied to reporting and risk-based capital rules. Regulators also announced other guidance tied to reporting and risk-based capital rules.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

With first-quarter earnings reports rolling out, it’s time to take a look at the state of small businesses and how they fared for the first three months of 2019. Plus, there is new evidence that the middle-market business community fared particularly well in the first quarter. Beyond the U.S., Beyond the U.S. ,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

These and other 19 th -century proto-cooperatives were the forerunners of today’s credit union (CU) community. The PYMNTS December 2019 Credit Union Tracker looks at the changing topography of the CU space, as digital transformation challenges the “all for one, one for all” mentality that has undergirded their business model since the 1800s.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 15, 2020

When the OCC issued its final Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) rule on May 20, 2020, the agency acted alone without waiting to achieve consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued its proposed rule. As to the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), it had already bowed out of the CRA reform effort in 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

The new bank — backed by Community Choice Credit Union, Alpena Alcona Area Credit Union, ELGA Credit Union, Frankenmuth Credit Union, Honor Credit Union, Members First Credit Union and Team One Credit Union — is aiming to get regulatory approval and make its full debut by the first quarter of 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”. RotoGrinders is a website that provides the DFS community with various bits of data, including game-specific weather forecasts. The industry is big business – and getting bigger by the day.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option. In December 2019, Renfrew testified as an expert witness before Congress in what was only the second hearing on cosmetic reform held in the House in the past 40 years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The last several years have seen a surge in efforts among the cryptocurrency community to legitimize the technology. Between 2018’s fourth quarter and 2019’s first, the average cost of a ransomware attack spiked by a whopping 89 percent to $12,762. Shaping Regulations.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. So first, we’ll look at how two community banks have become trusted pillars of the community through charity work and good old?fashioned billion-asset community bank. Build your community. It’s in their DNA.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Bank of America’s Small Business Owner Report found that 27 percent of small firms plan to hire in 2019. The survey revealed a range of data points that reflect SMBs’ optimism: most SMBs expect both national and local economies to improve, and for their revenues to increase in the coming year.

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Abrigo

JUNE 16, 2016

He added, “While we continue to have strong concerns with the costs related to CECL’s life of loan loss concept, we are committed to working with both regulators and auditors to ensure banks of all sizes can meet the implementation challenges of the new standard.” 15, 2020, and for interim periods a year later.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 12, 2021

The CFPB created the Taskforce in October 2019 to examine ways to harmonize and modernize federal consumer financial laws. The report consists of two volumes. Volume II (100 pages) contains the Taskforce’s specific recommendations (which number 102) for improving and strengthening the application of financial laws and regulations.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 22, 2021

The agencies are the Comptroller of the Currency, Farm Credit Administration, FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, and National Credit Union Administration (Agencies). Recently, federal agencies proposed revisions to the Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Flood Insurance. Comments on the new proposed Q&As are due by May 17, 2021.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In its cross-motion, the Bureau references the symposium on Section 1071 that it held on November 6, 2019 as one of the actions it has taken to commence Section 1071 rulemaking. Earlier this month, the plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment and the case was assigned to a mediator.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2018

Five more quarters to go and I believe in 2019 we will set a new record length for an expansion, albeit without hitting 3% GDP growth for any one of those ten years. and 2019 at 2.4% As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues. You know me by now.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 10, 2019

The town hall consisted of opening remarks by Director Kraninger, a panel discussion with Bureau staff, industry representatives, and consumer advocates, and an open question and answer segment with members of the community. On May 14, 2019, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The webinar registration form is available here.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This year, 2019, the average American will spend three hours and 43 minutes per day on mobile devices, just ahead of the three hours and 35 minutes spent watching television. Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center ( FFRDC ). They do, in fact, put their pants on one leg at a time.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Treasury Department released its report on the sector and concluded that the market would likely benefit from greater oversight from regulators. Small business accounting software startup Smacc is one reason why the country is so attractive to the FinTech startup community. alternative lending space this week, too.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

All of this, unfortunately, is likely to make the lawmakers even more eager to regulate or break up Big Tech — or both. Some need to be broken up; all need to be properly regulated and held accountable. Apple reported that developers scored $500 billion in sales from apps in the App Store in 2019. The status quo won out.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

If you read anything but this newsletter, you’ve got to read: Blockchain Capital’s 2019 Year in Review Messari Research Crypto Theses for 2020 DappRadar 2019 dapp Industry Review Decentralized Finance Overview So let’s narrow our entire lens to decentralized finance. Two 2019 symptoms have caused this rush?—?Facebook’s

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As previously reported in February 2019 federal regulators issued a joint final rule (the “Joint Final Rule”) to implement provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (the “Act”) that require regulated financial institutions to accept private flood insurance policies.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

and try to answer with the word “community”. If you want some earlier thinking on China and CBDC design options, see War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm. this is from December 2019. They all (i.e.,

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

and try to answer with the word “community”. If you want some earlier thinking on China and CBDC design options, see War over Money reaches new heights, as Libra opts into regulation, China launches national blockchain, and Financial Stability Board raises alarm. this is from December 2019. They all (i.e.,

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

cyber, infrastructure, and regulation. During the two weeks, there were over a hundred significant cyberattacks by nation-states on national and regional banks that you could watch unfold in near real-time (bel0w) at Gartner and Money 20/20. Small Idea – Policy and Regulations are Lagging But Are Going in Banking’s Favor.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 9, 2020

The agency would first offer “Payments Charter 1.0”, which he likened to a basic national money-transmitter license. According to Acting Comptroller Brooks, a national payments charter would align with the OCC’s role, which is to create and support national financial services platforms. would add, the initial Payments Charter 1.0

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