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What is TRACE Reporting? (Part 1 of 6)

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debt market, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) developed the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) in 2002 to facilitate the mandatory reporting of OTC bond transactions in eligible fixed-income securities. To promote transparency in the large U.S. Treasury Securities to TRACE. Interested in learning more?

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Growing Ratings Data Overwhelms Regulators

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securities regulator is having trouble with rating agencies because it doesn’t have the tools or specific knowledge it needs to analyze huge amounts of rating data, according to a report from Reuters. Those entities and their elevated ratings of mortgage-backed securities, analysts say, were gasoline for the U.S. housing bubble fire.

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In the UK, (More) Web Content Regulation Looms

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increased regulation over content delivered online through platforms may be on the horizon. This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. In the U.K.,

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2022 Dodd-Frank Stress Test Scenarios Released

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Federal bank regulators work together to design Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (“CCAR”) stress tests that are designed to ensure that even in the case of a severe recession, significant banks can lend to households and businesses. As repeated by federal bank regulators, the required economic scenarios are not forecasts.

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Allied Irish Banks Fined For Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Failures

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million fine by the Central Bank of Ireland due to compliance failures with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules. AIB said in a statement to Bloomberg that the settlement has to do with issues that happened between July 2010 and July 2014. Allied Irish Banks was hit with a $2.2

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Can compliance be more than just a cost to the business?

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Ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the Euro crisis of 2010-2012, there has been a relentless focus on compliance within the financial services sector. There seems to be a never-ending stream of new regulations from governments, central banks, monetary authorities and supranational.

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Bitcoin Daily: Coinbase CEO Signs Giving Pledge; SEC To Investigate Crypto Next Year

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The former senior vice president at Mastercard will oversee tZERO’s legal, regulatory, public policy and compliance functions. The Giving Pledge, which was started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in 2010, has also been signed by Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, Bill Ackman and Michael Bloomberg, along with more than 150 others.

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