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Deep Dive: How Regulatory Compliance Tools Help Keep Remittances Flowing

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Reducing fees for remittances might push price points low enough that more consumers could resume sending money home, though, and some researchers believe that money transfer service providers could make such price adjustments if they are able to reduce their own expenses through more robust and cost-effective regulatory compliance measures. .

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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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Regulations, Regulators And The High Cost Of Banking Compliance

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And the regulations just keep coming. In the banking industry, the mindset among compliance staff seems to be one where the expectation is to have a new rule governing new rules that govern new rules. In this brave new regulatory world, noted The Journal , traders interact with compliance officers. among other agencies.

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Morgan Stanley Fined By FINRA For Compliance Lapses

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Wall Street firm, was fined $10 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for compliance failures. According to a report in Reuters , citing FINRA and Morgan Stanley, the firm agreed to pay $10 million after FINRA contended it had lapses in compliance for more than five years from January of 2001 until April of 2016.

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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. There were gaps, though, and internal emails showed there was some confusion as to which department should handle the issue.

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Beyond emissions: the interplay of macroprudential regulation and climate policy

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As we find that these welfare differences are primarily driven by distortions in financial markets, we argue that countercyclical macroprudential regulation , even without any green-biased component, can effectively align the welfare performance of these policies and mitigate their short-run costs.

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Cognitive Compliance Highlights an Opportunity for Banks

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Today, banks are dealing with an overwhelming morass of regulations – more than 20,000 new ones in 2015 alone. By the year 2020, there may be 300 million pages of banking regulations. Wouldn’t it be nice if the specific regulations that applied to your business were highlighted? We call it cognitive compliance.