PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regulation. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. As technology companies become bigger and more important to the economy, I would say more regulations to reflect the new reality are needed," Lau said, according to the report.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

LISTEN NOW Bipartisan support The 2023 SAFE Banking Act: An unclear outlook Takeaway 1 The Senate recently introduced the newest version of marijuana legislation, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act. While 38 states , along with Washington D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection watchdog, has hit Amazon and Google with significant financial penalties for allegedly contravening regulations on the digital advertising trackers known as “cookies,” CNBC reported. Amazon was told to pay 35 million euros (approximately $42.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jamal El-Hindi, the deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), spoke at the 2019 Money Transmitter Regulators Association Annual Conference on Wednesday (Sept. 11) about the importance of innovation and the regulation of non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), according to a release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

3 hearing advises that system-wide governance should be established to regulate virtual asset service providers (VASPs), CoinTelegraph reported Monday (Sept. Although regulation could make it hard for some crypto firms to continue operations, Murray said it’s not the BSA’s job to accommodate everyone. financial system.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The hearing itself was a small victory for proponents who wish to open up the banking system to legal pot operators. That’s because it marked the first hearing dedicated to a proposed bill in Congress that would offer financial institutions protections against federal regulators when dealing with legal cannabis operations.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. Both regulators said proving the necessary capital and profitability have been particularly difficult for […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Reuters reported news on Tuesday that banking regulators from seven states across the United States are working to, as the newswire reported, “streamline” the FinTech reporting process, with an eye on those tech firms having an easier road toward offering their products and services across the nation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington Post. According to the publication, Flowhub will provide compliance, regulatory and reporting support for cannabis companies. The publication cited data from Cowen & Co.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data is intended to help the CFPB enforce fair lending laws and could also be used by the government and small business lenders to identify the needs of businesses, said Michelle Lucci, Abrigo Regulatory Compliance Manager. Stay up to date on small business lending regulation and other lending trends. Collection Requirements.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Or maybe a relatively bland extended-stay operation right off the interstate. To learn more about the trend, PYMNTS recently caught up with Kulveer Taggar, co-founder and CEO of Zeus , a digital and mobile-focused operation that puts business travelers into furnished housing that Zeus rents from owners.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To date 43 states and Washington, D.C. The new jumble of state-level and municipal taxation has further obscured already confusing Internet sales tax compliance. It’s all somewhat fragmented and ad hoc at the moment, as city councils coast to coast think of clever ways to leverage the new regulations. Implementation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The hearing itself was a small victory for proponents who wish to open up the banking system to legal pot operators. That’s because it marked the first hearing dedicated to a proposed bill in Congress that would offer financial institutions protections against federal regulators if dealing with legal cannabis operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The bill was sponsored by Congressmen Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Denny Heck of Washington, Steve Stivers of Ohio and Warren Davidson of Ohio — all members of the House Committee on Financial Services. The legislation aims to ensure that state-authorized and regulated cannabis businesses are not forced to operate with cash only.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 21, 2020

Despite Federal ambiguity, State Regulators are beginning to clearly define their stances on cannabis banking. Compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) is going green… or is it? State Banking Regulators. I believe we will see more state banking regulators join them in 2020. GET STARTED. Conclusion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

A federal judge late last week ordered a stay on the August 2019 compliance date tied to the “ payday lending rule ” mandated roughly two years ago by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB had asked the court to wait until a separate case had been decided. That’s the problem this legislation is looking to solve.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C. Companies that are already in their operational phases will be given advance consideration. “Technology demonstrations should highlight how these innovations work and how financial institutions might use them.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 25, 2019

Therefore, according to the Guidance, the operator of the typical virtual currency exchange platform, kiosk, ATM or vending machine does not represent a money transmitter subject to Pennsylvania licensure. Thus, a state law violation can become a federal violation. A licensing analysis will be based on the handling of the sovereign currency.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 28, 2016

The amount of regulation in the financial industry is staggering and has understandably been top of mind for most CEOs. My colleagues (shout out to Vincent Hui and Kaleb Seymour ) and I conducted a study for the credit union industry to determine the impact of regulation. The best banks aren’t just compliant with new regulations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. This forces many operations to continue using cash. Marijuana retailers] want to think about growing their businesses, enhancing operations and taking care of their employees,” she said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

It caught the Treasury Department, which oversees financial services regulation for the cannabis sector via its FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) branch, off-guard. Those same risks apply for financial service providers too, which have largely left legal marijuana companies to operate entirely on cash.

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Regulation Taxes Compliance United States 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Wells Fargo — after a year of headaches, hassles and a seemingly unending hit parade of scandals — is now facing the ire of regulators who question why the bank is not refunding insurance money owed to customers who paid off their loans early.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

in a manner that the Secretary determines appropriate to assess compliance” with the amendment. As we will discuss, it applies the BSA to persons providing corporate formation, trust, third-party payment, or similar legal or accounting services.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Regulators should use consistent and transparent standards when evaluating a community bank’s fair lending practices. Community banks should receive proper notice of any changes to the methodologies, standards or analysis regulators use to assess fair. lending compliance.

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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.”. states, with only Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington labeling DFS as illegal. The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The latest issue involves eSports – one of the rising trends in digital commerce , and one of the ways through which some mall and brick-and-mortar operators hope to revive those retail properties. billion in 2022.”. State Pressure. All that growth is now reportedly attracting the attention of the tax man. The Wayfair Impact.

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FICO

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The potential of alternative data in consumer lending decisions continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., When federal banking agencies recently revised their Q&As for CRA compliance , their focus on the use of alternative data caught my eye.

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Lending Data Community FDIC 74

Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Under the DFA, banks that cross over $10 billion in assets face costly regulations such as DFA stress testing, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight and Durbin Amendment compliance, which caps banks’ interchange income. Have regulatory compliance costs skyrocketed as feared? ERM/COMPLIANCE COSTS.

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Risk Management Compliance Survey Cards 60

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Another reason pen tests are increasingly common is that regulations and PCI compliance require banks to furnish annual pen test results. The biggest knock on multifactor authentication is inconvenience, according to Joel Williquette, ICBA’s senior vice president of operational risk policy. a Washington, D.C.-based

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1960, which criminalizes the operation of unlicensed money transmitting businesses, in order to increase its statutory maximum penalty from five years to ten years of imprisonment, and doubling its maximum criminal fine from $500,000 to $1 million for certain offenses. Amending 18 U.S.C.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

PayPal officially pulled its support of Facebook’s Libra initiative after being a no-show at the Libra Association meeting in Washington, D.C. Trending: How EU Regulators Are Complicating SCA Compliance (Ekata PSDS Tracker). And its investment in MercadoLibre, a Latin American retailer, dropped 10 percent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

PayPal officially pulled its support of Facebook’s Libra initiative after it no-showed at the Libra Association meeting last week in Washington, D.C. Questions about regulatory compliance related to money laundering were reported to be the reason for PayPal’s exit. We’ll know today how many others may follow.

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FICO

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Since the November elections, much of the talk here in Washington, D.C. While the database is not expected to be operational for several years, the FCC did provide for a safe harbor that will protect those that leverage the database from TCPA liability. has been on preparing for a divided Congress. The next step?

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Policies District of Columbia Regulation California 40

Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out. She effectively ran the bank and its operations. You can't make this stuff up.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

and Puerto Rico banking laws and regulations. 4 First BanCorp (NYSE: FBP) First BanCorp is a full service financial institution with operations in Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and Florida. Interesting that three of the top 5 have some sort of BaaS operation. five-year total return and #2 on the JFB Top 5!

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

If the deal passes muster with the regulators, such an acquisition would make Walmart one of the country’s largest health insurance companies. Walmart currently operates pharmacies in close to 4,700 stores in the U.S., The two sides are reportedly discussing options, one of which is acquisition.

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