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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. Bob Hickok.

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The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

PYMNTS

RotoGrinders is a website that provides the DFS community with various bits of data, including game-specific weather forecasts. And New Hampshire is far from unique: According to the Monitor’s reports, both Connecticut and Rhode Island have seen similar results with their online gambling platforms. And that was really all I needed.”.

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CFPB and DOJ announce redlining settlement

CFPB Monitor

” In delineating its assessment area under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), the bank excluded most of the majority-Black-and-Hispanic neighborhoods in the NY/NJ and Camden MSAs. The proposed consent order requires the bank to pay a $5.5 million civil money penalty to the CFPB.

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Accounting Liabilities

Independent Banker

A New Accounting Twist—ICBA’s accounting expert James Kendrick tells community banks to closely watch for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s pending new standards for recognizing credit losses, much earlier than currently required. IB: How would this affect community banks? IB: What is being proposed by FASB?

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

PYMNTS

To that end, said Kevin Hart, CEO of Green Check Verified (hereafter Green Check), spoke with PYMNTS about how cannabis firms, banking and compliance issues intersect, and how FinTech can help alleviate friction in the process of keeping track of it all. The rules will change, perhaps piecemeal, perhaps drastically.

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Directing HUD to Review Fair Housing Act Disparate Impact Rule

CFPB Monitor

With regard to the 2020 Rule, the memorandum provides that: The effects of the 2020 Rule that the HUD Secretary must examine include “the effect that amending the [2013 Rule] has had on HUD’s statutory duty to ensure compliance with the Fair Housing Act.”. In Inclusive Communities , which was decided in 2015, the U.