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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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Report: FinCEN Files Reveal Billions In Suspicious Money Flows

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BuzzFeed said the thousands of suspicious activity reports, authored by lenders and shared with the government, offer a glimpse into global corruption enabled by banks and allowed to flourish by regulators. Since 2010, prosecution has been delayed by 18 banks for anti-money laundering, according to BuzzFeed.

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VirnetX Takes $503M Bite Out Of Apple For Patent Infringement

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11, 2010, alleged that Apple’s FaceTime and VPN On Demand features were using its patented technology. national security.”. "On 1), the tech giant referred to the possible effects of legal proceedings and global regulations and how those could impact its operations and financial conditions. On four separate occasions.

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Aussie Regs Accuse NAB Of Decade-Long Fee Scheme

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Australian regulators have made public a report into National Australia Bank (NAB), accusing the FI of charging consumer and small business customers fees for services that were never rendered, reports in The Sydney Morning Herald said Wednesday (Aug.

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Deep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements

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A series of regulations was established to encourage a safer, more transparent financial services environment following the 2008 financial crisis. Failure to meet AML/KYC requirement challenges can be costly for FIs, too, with regulators issuing heavy fines for lax security practices or failure to devote sufficient resources to oversight.

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FinTech Firms On The New FinTech Charter

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The report , released in support of President Trump’s call to regulate the U.S. In general, the department proposed to fuel more FinTech activity in the United States by loosening federal regulations, enacting national data breach protections and drafting “model laws” at the state level to reduce overlapping red tape.

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Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking – One Transaction at a Time

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By Vanessa Russell, Founder and Executive Director of Love Never Fails According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline , working in the financial industry provides you the opportunity to report suspicious behavior involving 92% of the various types of human trafficking. BSA Rules and Regulation. Let’s keep it going! BSA Training.

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