Chris Skinner

MAY 1, 2017

I’m regularly blogging and talking about the legacy economy known as America. Back in December, I picked up on this new Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Ruling to issue national FinTech bank charters. FinTech community on edge As it turned out, the proposal caused a firestorm among numerous FinTech industry stakeholders.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Abrigo

APRIL 23, 2015

A new bill proposed on April 16 aims to increase the exam cycle period for a larger pool of community banks. OCC guidance on Community Bank Supervision states all national banks must receive a full-scope, on-site exam at least annually. The bill, spearheaded by Senator Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Senator Pat Toomey, R-PA.,

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 20, 2020

federal and state financial institution regulators have taken meaningful, proactive steps to acknowledge financial inequality issues, reach out to traditionally underserved populations to expand access to credit, and further protect consumers from discrimination. This blog post contains a summary of those efforts.

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American Banker

MAY 8, 2020

The Independent Community Bankers of America accused the National Credit Union Administration of using the coronavirus outbreak to usher in additional changes without the normal amount of scrutiny.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The dispute over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ‘s (OCC’s) national bank charter, which became available to FinTech firms last year, has reportedly caused technology conglomerates to shy away from a tool that aims to provide nonbank firms with a more streamlined way to operate on a national level.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

This increase in cash escalates the threat of robberies, assault, and other aggressive crimes both at these businesses and in the surrounding communities. It also allows financial institutions to properly monitor for and report on suspicious activity, ensuring that the CRBs in their communities are legitimate. What about hemp?

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Chase and more published their findings — sometimes to contradicting conclusions. The majority reported feeling optimistic about their local economies, but less than half (43 percent) said the same about the national market. The index recorded a 0.28

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community. But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Small banks do not want to compete with the Amazons and Walmarts of the world when it comes to offering financial services for clients — and as of today, they more or less are protected from having to do so by regulations that prevent banks’ holding companies from branching too far outside of core financial services businesses.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., You can see that the overall share of regulated banking entities at the federal level is hovering around 20% to 30%.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., You can see that the overall share of regulated banking entities at the federal level is hovering around 20% to 30%.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Attorney General William Barr said that while cryptocurrency could fundamentally transform how human beings interact and how we organize society, “ensuring that use of this technology is safe and does not imperil our public safety or our national security is vitally important to America and its allies.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

3), its developer, the Triple Five Group , the Canadian conglomerate which also owns two of North America’s largest malls, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta and the Mall of America in Minnesota, announced the mall will reopen on Oct. On Thursday (Sept. 1, NorthJersey.com reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

In conjunction with the DoJ, the RMBS Working Group has negotiated billions upon billions of dollars in settlements with the biggest banks in America. billion from Bank of America. These groups engage in voter registration, community organizing and lobbying. Bank of America is the only bank to make its donation list public.

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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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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Within the financial industry, the word “regulation” often receives a mixed reaction. The “big guys” like Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and others are required under the Dodd-Frank financial laws to release their findings publicly , as a step to prepare for the Fed’s annual check-up in the spring.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

This new round of capital will help us further our mission of connecting communities around the world through last-mile delivery,” CEO Tony Xu said. Best Taking a Stand — DICK’S, Bank of America, Kroger, BlackRock, Delta, United (etc). We had a pit in our stomach,” Stack told CNN. “We

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

See Part I: Implications for Community Financial Institutions. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act) was signed into law on October 26, 2001, just over a month after the attacks. BSA Rules and Regulation. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

When the impact stretches across oceans, nations and demographics, though, and those affected number in the hundreds of millions, a sea change is a-swelling. Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) Bancard president and CEO Tina Giorgio offered some insight into what firms did after news of the Equifax breach hit.

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2015

March comes in like a lion for the nation’s largest banks. It was a critical day in the eyes of those at Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo and others at the top. During examination time, regulators are increasingly looking at a bank’s stress testing processes and resulting capital plans.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Mishkin The American Bankers Association, Consumers Bankers Association, Independent Community Bankers of America, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, and Association of Military Banks of America have submitted a 59-page letter commenting on the Department of Defense’s proposed revisions to its Military Loan Act regulations.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 8, 2022

Eight national trade groups have filed a petition with the CFPB that urges the Bureau to engage in rulemaking to define larger participants in the market for data aggregation services. They assert that the CFPB has authority to promulgate such a regulation and cite to various provisions of the CFPA as the source of such authority.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to Cherry Bekaert LLP , Bank of America has allocated a 50-person team to prepare for adjusted credit loss standards. However, small community banks without such resources are sounding their concerns. Even some banks will be kept on their toes.

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Tech and Finance

MAY 28, 2019

North America has a newcomer in core banking — Technisys, originally from Argentina. Co-founders Miguel Santos, CEO and co-founder Adrián Iglesias, COO both came out of IBM Argentina while a third co-founder German Pugliese Bassi, CMO & Alliances is a well-known entrepreneur in Latin America. Incorporation Ltd (TNI) of Thailand.

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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. The group sent a joint letter to Rep.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. Other ideas include more government action regarding competitive regulation.

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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. Beautycounter has retail stores in New York City and Denver, eCommerce capabilities and approximately 45,000 sales consultants across North America.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The National Credit Union Administration’s irresponsible power play earlier this year to ignore the explicit member business lending limits Congress has set for credit unions could not be ignored. In the process, however, the regulation also tramples upon consumers, taxpayers, the financial system and the integrity of responsible government.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The Independent Community Bankers of America have asked a federal judge to reject a motion by the National Credit Union Administration petitioning for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by ICBA that challenges recent revisions to the agency's member business lending regulation.

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Independent Banker

MAY 24, 2016

For example, the accounting standard will now be crystal clear that community banks can forgo certain unnecessary or inappropriate disclosures. They avoid what otherwise would have become seriously unworkable accounting requirements for community banks. Soon the regulators will take up the CECL standard. We must stay on point.

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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. But I knew weather and sports,” Roth noted. And that was really all I needed.”.

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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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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, Regulation DD requires disclosure, on request and before a consumer opens a deposit account, of the amount of any overdraft fee or NSF fee imposed in connection with the account. Regulation Z similarly requires disclosure, on or with in application or solicitation for a credit card account, of any late payment fee.

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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.”

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Making good on threats it had made previously, the Independent Community Bankers of America filed suit Wednesday against the National Credit Union Administration, claiming the agency's recent overhaul of its member business lending rules violate two different laws.

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American Banker

MARCH 18, 2016

The Independent Community Bankers of America and the Credit Union National Association sent a joint letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board urging changes to a proposal to alter how financial institutions establish reserves for loan losses.

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