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CFPB issues report on state community reinvestment laws

CFPB Monitor

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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. Shielding sensitive customer information from prying eyes remains a chronic industry challenge. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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Accounting About-Face

Independent Banker

She explained why lawmakers should exempt community banks from Basel III capital rule. Community bankers score big changes in final credit-loss standard. To their credit, federal regulators have already showed they are on board with the approach laid out in FASB’s final standard. Senate Banking Committee. By James Kendrick.

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The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

PYMNTS

Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”. RotoGrinders is a website that provides the DFS community with various bits of data, including game-specific weather forecasts. But I knew weather and sports,” Roth noted. And that was really all I needed.”.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

"Our combined financial institution will offer a wider array of products and services while continuing our long-standing personal commitment to our customers and community." - Gregory Schreacke, President of First Financial Service Corporation in Elizabethtown, KY on his bank''s sale to Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc.

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Ohio Lottery Makes A New Bet on Mobile

PYMNTS

In Connecticut, for example, you cannot buy tickets with a credit card. The company can do that because — after working with regulators before entering a specific state — it buys lotto tickets and keeps original paper tickets in a secure location, “which it also pays to insure, in case anything goes wrong at its holding facility.

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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. One wonders whether the CFPB and DOJ consulted with the OCC, the bank’s prudential regulator, about the terms of the proposed consent order.

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