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Libra Forces Cryptocurrency Regulators To Reexamine Procedures

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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. The Cost of Compliance. The projected 2020 cost of AML compliance across all U.S. financial institutions (77 percent) for AML compliance.

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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. Up to 200 regulatory changes occur every day, varying from large scale regulation like Dodd Frank, to minute changes to the font and size of footnotes in regulation text. Enter, IBM Watson Compliance. Confusion can become expensive in the compliance industry.

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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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RegTech: From Compliance Checkbox To Competitive Cornerstone

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According to John Epperson, principal at Crowe LLP , that goes to show that the current approaches to regulatory and compliance technology ( RegTech ) aren’t working. Banks spent $100 billion on RegTech solutions last year, and $6 billion has been invested by venture capitalists since 2008. Common Concerns. Why RegTech?

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ICC Says Regulation Limits Trade Finance

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Reports in Reuters on Tuesday (May 28) said UBS expects its regulatory costs to remain high in the years ahead after a decade of more stringent regulations leading to heavier, more costly burdens on banks. “That has tied up enormous resources.” “Why is this so significant?

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AI Now Helps Banks Manage Compliance

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Will artificial intelligence help banks navigate the complexities of compliance more effectively? Against a backdrop where regulations have grown by leaps and bounds in the wake of the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reported that banks have taken on tens of thousands of new staffers tied exclusively to compliance.

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A Utah bank is gone after 16 years of losses. Why did it survive so long?

American Banker

Liberty Bank in Salt Lake City had been "structurally unprofitable" since 2008, according to its regulators. Experts criticized the FDIC for allowing the bank's demise to play out in slow motion.

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