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MUFG Bank Enters Consent Order With OCC Over AML Compliance

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Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), over deficiencies that the OCC identified in the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program. The OCC identified the deficiencies in the bank’s branches in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. MUFG Bank said the OCC recognized improvements the bank made to its U.S.

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Why Texas has its own account with the Federal Reserve

American Banker

The state's comptroller of public accounts is one of several notable non-depositories with access to the Fed's payments system, along with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Tennessee Valley Authority. So why do they have accounts while some neobanks don't?

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Why By-The-Book Compliance Could Be Homesharing’s Next Innovation

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“We are really good at regulatory compliance,” Lyric Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Kitchell said in an interview with Bloomberg. A Chicago apartment goes for about $242 per night on, and the rooms in New York will range from $200 to $500 per night.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Hints At EU Pullout Over Data Transfers Laws; Appeal Filed Over Apple’s $15B Tax Bill On Ireland Operations; In-App Billing Battle Rages On

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Developers who are not in compliance will be urged to update their apps to bring them in line.” As app developers have gone at it of late with Apple and Google over what many feel are unfair demands pertaining to in-app payments, Google is holding its ground. Facebook Faces Facial Biometrics Lawsuit.

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Plugging leaks: Bento for Business uses tech to help clients streamline payments

Bank Innovation

Bento for Business‘ pitch to business owners, however, is more than just about expense tracking, according to Farhan Ahmad, the Chicago-based company’s CEO. […].

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Deep Dive: An Automated Approach To The $2T Global Money Laundering Problem

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The term “money laundering” is believed to have originated as a result of infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone’s habit of channeling criminally obtained funds through laundromats, as their cash-heavy nature made it more difficult for the right side of the law to detect such money mixed in among legitimate payments.

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CFPB might be over its anti-discrimination skis in Townstone case

American Banker

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is appealing a lower court ruling that found the agency exceeded its authority in bringing an anti-discrimination enforcement action against a Chicago mortgage lender after he made disparaging remarks about Blacks and Hispanics.

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