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AmEx Faces Fed Inquiry On Business Card Sales Tactics

PYMNTS

FDIC) and the Treasury Department are looking to see if American Express Co. AmEx) harnessed strong and deceptive sales practices for card sales to business owners and if clients experienced negative effects, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Jan. Officials at the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Preparing your financial institution to manage loan workouts, loan modifications

Abrigo

Managing loan workouts and modifications Tips for preparing your bank or credit union to handle an increased volume of problem loans while ensuring prudent credit risk management. You might also like this video, "A look at credit risk in a rising-rate environment." Regulators foster prudent loan modifications.

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Compliance changes to watch in 2023

Independent Banker

The FDIC approved a final rule to increase initial base deposit insurance assessment rates by 2 basis points until the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) achieves the FDIC’s long-term goal of a reserve ratio of 2% of insured deposits. The FDIC’s long-term goal for the reserve ratio of insured deposits. Source: FDIC.

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Federal banking regulators issue statement on loan reference rates and advise prompt transition from LIBOR

CFPB Monitor

The Fed, FDIC, and OCC have issued a “ Statement on Reference Rates for Loans ” that addresses replacement rates for the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). In June 2020, the CFPB proposed amendments to Regulation Z to address the discontinuation of LIBOR.

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Digital Disruption

Independent Banker

One of the biggest problems with FinTech companies is that many of them exploit existing banking infrastructure—including debit, credit and ACH networks—and access traditional checking and saving accounts, yet face minimal regulation when it comes to data security and privacy. Siphoning customers. These insights emulate relationship banking.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding.

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Consumer Lending Compliance: Hot-Button Issues to Monitor

Abrigo

Consumer lending compliance — like other aspects of enterprise risk management at financial institutions — saw a huge impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. Major consumer loan compliance regulations. Regulation B, implementing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) for fair lending. Pandemic Issues.