Abrigo

JANUARY 3, 2024

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently issued a new regulation on the requirements, including how AML staff will access the information through a new federal beneficial ownership information (BOI) registry. This definition is different from existing customer due diligence (CDD) rules that took effect in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. In another nod toward privacy, Microsoft wants to see government regulation of facial recognition technology. Bloomberg reported that the top 10 regulated banks in the U.S. Facial Recognition’s Need for Legislation?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The initiative, which is known as the Blockchain Urban Plan for 2018–2022, was announced in a Zurich visit. In other news, regulators in the European Union are looking at initial coin offerings (ICOs) to determine if they need to be regulated, Reuters reported. telephone number management.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. Many states don’t have any laws regulating the use of facial recognition technology.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. With 142 presentations and panels, the content was tailored to the needs of every bank interested in payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. This steady march toward online banking tools has played a key role in how Brazil’s regulators are structuring its open banking rules.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

Both Kik and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are seeking a quick end to their legal dispute, CoinDesk reported. It contended that it had not had an unregistered securities sale as of the beginning of 2018 when the SEC first acted. securities rules.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The country’s government and regulators are keeping pace with those in the European Union and the U.S. Foreign firms and regulators tend to think of Chinese laws as either too strict, wide-reaching or lax — perceptions that have failed to keep up with local regulations’ developments. “In Confronting the Chinese Privacy Myth .

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Abrigo

JANUARY 27, 2020

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has been working on their share of goal setting, as they have released their 2020 supervisory priorities for credit unions, regulation updates, and the agency’s modernization programs. “We BSA Rules and Regulation. The new year often brings a time of reflection and goal setting.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The company said requests were up 27 percent in 2018, as opposed to a year earlier. regulators and 1.8 million users to Canadian regulators. Uber also said that despite the rise in requests from law enforcement, it “has not received a national security request.” .

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Abrigo

JULY 23, 2021

The regulations are forthcoming, but institutions now should begin the process of performing a threat-focused risk assessment which will guide them where to focus their efforts. The North Korean government has been also found to have used chemical weapons against its own nationals. Included as a Priority is Proliferation Financing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. The feature was shelved at that time, as Expedia’s systems weren’t set up to accept bitcoin payments. million South African rand ($4.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2019

Wong was in charge from 2007 until 2018. The National Credit Union Administration was named as Municipal Credit Union’s conservator, Linda Lacewell, the state’s acting financial services superintendent, told Reuters. million worth of New York State Lottery tickets with the money he embezzled.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 21, 2020

Despite Federal ambiguity, State Regulators are beginning to clearly define their stances on cannabis banking. It would be impossible to talk about cannabis banking in 2019 without mentioning the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 (SAFE Act). State Banking Regulators. or less tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). GET STARTED.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Three board members are on track to be replaced by April and a fourth by the end of 2018. There’s a lot of different metrics that you look at, but they’re all pointing to a slow but steady recovery,” he said, without giving any specifics.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. The initiative will be on hold until the government enacts new laws that would safeguard data security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which pointed out that investors may have a false sense of security triggered by the operating label of an “exchange.”. Concerns over regulation will likely continue to plague the crypto, according to analysts. The declines could also be attributed to comments from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Locality Bank, a digital-first community bank serving south Florida that opened in January, is run by industry veterans with such successful track records that regulators signed off on their application for a charter in less than a year. from 2016 until its sale in 2018. Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Built on a solid foundation.

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Abrigo

APRIL 26, 2022

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) has profiled this global issue by naming corruption one of the eight national security priorities. Securities and Exchange Commission launched investigations into political corruption and started legislative efforts to thwart such acts. financial system. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

The nation has watched many European countries go through this process over the past year, so impacts on its financial ecosystem are at least expected if firms have not yet experienced them. Turkish regulators and government officials spent less time deliberating whether they wanted to implement PSD2 and more considering how to integrate it.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Our Transparent AI is easy to explain to regulators. . The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the Federal Banking Agencies, released a joint statement in December 2018 emphasizing financial institutions’ need to embrace technology to strengthen their BSA/AML programs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Anonymity is desirable for anyone online, as personal information like addresses, financial details, names and Social Security numbers can devastate in the hands of a fraudster, but tasks like conducting online banking and making purchases require identity verification as a prerequisite. First inquiries revolve around personal privacy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Member ING Bank was fined 775 million euros ($852 million USD) in 2018 for failing to prevent criminals from siphoning millions of euros through it over a six-year period, for example. Consumers want speed and personalization, but they don’t want to sacrifice security,” he said. AML Strategies and Innovation Quirks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

regulators turn down its plan to pay back customers who purchased auto insurance they didn’t need. In June, Wells Fargo submitted the plan to regulators as part of a $1 billion settlement it reached with the CFPB and the OCC. Reuters noted that there is no deadline for when the regulators need to sign off on the plan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

They must also excel at securely handling payments and personal data, while recommending services at the right moment to enhance transactions along the way. million tourists using the platform in 2018, a 56 percent increase over the prior year. Airbnb on Payments, User Friction and Security Challenges in a Global Market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

The new findings gathered by Juniper Research and published in its report, “The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Threat Analysis, Impact Assessment & Leading Vendors 2018-2023,” shows that there will be a staggering increase of 175 percent in cybercrime in 2023. The research also found that the U.S. by 2023.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Despite Federal ambiguity, Illinois State Regulators defined their stances on cannabis banking. It would be impossible to talk about cannabis banking in 2020 without mentioning the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 (SAFE Act). Illinois State Banking Regulators. Key Takeaways. or less tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Australian Services and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned John Louis Anthony Bigatton, who was the Australian national representative for crypto platform BitConnect, from engaging in financial services for the next seven years after he was found to be engaging in deceptive practices, a report from Financial Standard finds.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Commerzbank completed the transaction with R3’s Corda-based blockchain platform, while Main Incubator acted as a service partner, Continental was the issuer and Siemens subscribed to the security as an investor. The entire market for BCC crashed in late January 2018, after two U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and industry leaders are zeroing in on some of the most vulnerable targets of cyber scams: small businesses. Even more troubling, however, is the cloud security company’s finding that most SMBs estimate the cost of a data breach to be just $10,000. Stronger passwords.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 6, 2021

The Priorities have been much-anticipated because, under the AML Act, regulators will review and examine financial institutions in part according to how their AML/CFT compliance programs incorporate and further the Priorities, “as appropriate.”. Given the already-existing breadth of the eight Priorities, that goal looks challenging.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The latest changes proposed by the Fed come on the heels of the May 2018 passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which in turn scaled back a number of financial regulations introduced a decade ago in the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis. PSD2 News, Too.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

The report explores how companies in G20 nations are preparing for risks related to technological disruption, regulation and cybersecurity. Its global survey, the 2018 global operations risk management survey, warned that corporate understanding of risks is not enough.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

“Criminals who seek to use this country as a place to launder money should be in no doubt that they have nowhere to hide,” said Ben Wallace, minister for national security and economic crime. million over 2017 to 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats!

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