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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. We don’t operate from a position of fear.”. Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; By Roshan McArthur.

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Preparing for Section 1071

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Financial institutions should consider the impact of this rule and prepare for changes to their business operations. Online lenders, platform lenders, and fintechs should also consider sending feedback to the CFPB and considering the ways their operations might be affected. Those implementing regulations were coming.

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AI, Security And Loosened Rules: How The US Wants To Boost FinTech

PYMNTS

Loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape, could help promote FinTech in the United States, according to report released Tuesday (July 31) by the U.S. Treasury Department. The report arrives at a time of growing optimism for U.S.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. Shielding sensitive customer information from prying eyes remains a chronic industry challenge. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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Google Gearing Up To Buy Data Science Contest Platform Kaggle

PYMNTS

The report noted Google is getting one of the biggest and most active data scientists’ community and will get access to more mindshare. million in venture funding since it went live in 2010. The potential deal comes at a time when Google is facing backlash from regulators outside of the U.S. and consumer groups.

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An Open Letter to Rohit Chopra, CFPB Director: Isn’t it time for the CFPB to restart its best vehicle for interpreting the Federal consumer Financial laws–the Official Staff Commentaries?

CFPB Monitor

When the Truth in Lending Act became law in 1969, the Federal Reserve Board soon thereafter promulgated its implementing regulation, Regulation Z. The Fed subsequently began using Official Staff Commentaries for the other consumer finance regulations that it was charged with interpreting.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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