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How Banks Can Turn Compliance Burden Into A Data Opportunity

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While regulators had transparency and financial security in mind when introducing more stringent requirements for banks following the global financial crisis, financial institutions faced a sudden surge in the burden compliance. The Key To Compliance Is Data.

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Watson at Work at IBM Think: Meeting compliance through cognitive computing

Insights on Business

Maintaining regulatory compliance is a daunting task. The cost of not being compliant is astronomical – since 2008, more than $50 billion in fines have been paid. Banks and financial institutions are looking for any advantage they can get to streamline operations and reduce compliance costs.

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How next-generation technologies are transforming governance, risk and compliance

Insights on Business

Today, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is being transformed by not only rapidly-evolving regulatory standards and growing costs of non-compliance, but also by the clear and present need for greater GRC adoption/engagement – by the first line of defense – while delivering added value by empowering business users.

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Lessons Learned From the Fourth United States Bank Failure of 2023

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Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. He was promoted to President and CEO in 2008. Mr. Herndon named the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) as receiver, allowing the FDIC to take control of the Heartland Tri-State’s operations.

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Wall Street In Talks To Allow Remote Trading

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He said his organization is talking to regulators about how companies could meet compliance rules if trading staff aren’t working from a place where they’re required to, where there’s plenty of oversight. They’ve done this in the past around the 2008 financial crisis and 9/11.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

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Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. Financial Companies’ Security And Regulatory Obligations .

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The most popular CECL, ALM, & portfolio risk blogs of the year

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Those read most often in the past year include several that offer practical advice for operating ALM and CECL models. Now that it’s implemented, it’s crucial to ensure ongoing compliance and efficient management of the allowance for credit losses (ACL). The FASB’s description of proposed changes can be found here.