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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating. Unfortunately, some banks adopted BSBY as one of their preferred indexes and in doing so created risk in derivatives and operations. No ISDA documents.

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US House Zeroes In On Money Laundering Loopholes

PYMNTS

An anti-money laundering resolution presented by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) passed by a voice vote on Thursday (March 14). We know, too, that terror groups like ISIS have looted and sold these treasures to fund their operations.”. The resolution — H. I rise in strong support of H. This must stop.

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CA Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation signs MOUs with five earned wage access companies

CFPB Monitor

According to the DFPI, the MOUs are intended to allow the EWA companies “to continue operating in California, in advance of possible registration under the [CCFPL].” which received an approval order for its EWA program from the CFPB through the CFPB’s Compliance Assistance Sandbox Policy.

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Recap of Money 20/20 USA 2023 and 10 Banking Thoughts

South State Correspondent

Our Top 10 Insights From Money 20/20 From these sessions and announcements, we pulled out ten of our most important takeaways, each having an impact on bank operations in the coming year. This bill of “personal financial data rights” is similar to the California Privacy Protection Act that is already in force for banks doing business in CA.

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Financial services at IBM Think 2019

Insights on Business

IBM will be hosting IBM Think 2019 from February 12-15 this year at a new location in San Francisco, CA. Digitally transforming operations, operating models and technologies to compete in a changing industry structure. Optimizing risk, compliance and security.

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How Payments Security Drives Digital Transformation

PYMNTS

That’s the backdrop for the nearly hour-long conversation that Karen Webster had about the role of payments security in digital business transformation with CA Technologies Director of Payments Security James Jenkins. CA Technologies’ Roadmap. Here are the highlights of that conversation.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director, California Reinvestment Coalition, San Francisco, CA. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Raul Vazquez, Chief Executive Officer, Oportun, Redwood City, CA. William Howle, Head of U.S. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY.