PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The compliance burden of a legal marijuana business having to manage regulations that vary by state, and between the state and federal level, has created a banking conundrum for a market forced to rely heavily on cash. But the compliance challenges associated with this market are not easily (or quickly) addressed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

The technical capabilities can be dizzying and dazzling, of course, spanning the gamut from machine learning to artificial intelligence (AI), to predictive modeling. People in compliance functions — or the folks who would be enabling the technology — don’t necessarily own that data. There’s another factor.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 13, 2024

The major themes of fraud, artificial intelligence (AI), expansion of instant payments, open banking, and regulation were particularly relevant to your roles as executives, risk managers, compliance officers, and technology leaders. It is likely that regulators will soon ask banks to come up with a plan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2018

Last week, of course, the U.S. And yet: How and why to regulate? And where – and just who should do the regulating? federal agencies that are trying to figure out if something is under their purview and should they [even] be regulating this.”. Obviously, there are tax issues and you’ve got the IRS involved,” said Patel.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

game have been drawing increased scrutiny from regulators … everyone from exchange operators to miners. And in a world where the investments in ICOs have lurched into the billions of dollars, the regulation of a thus far unregulated (ICO) U.S. has been somewhat, at least arguably, late to the ICO regulation game.

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FICO

DECEMBER 21, 2016

That means 2017 should be a risky year from a compliance standpoint. Of course, as an analytics provider, we would say that. To help in those efforts, regulators are requiring firms to improve their KYC programs with more detailed data and advanced analytics. Compliance will break through the “cloud ceiling.”.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

Of course, the sweeping AML Act of 2020 was passed because it also was tucked into the massive defense spending authorization bill for that year—so backers of BSA/AML expansion appear to be reverting to tactics which previously bore fruit. Requirements. Here, the amendment does provide the Secretary and FinCEN with its typical discretion.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 28, 2015

Much like tax forms were once frequently completed with just a calculator, pencil and paper, the same is true of a business valuation. Compliance. This is the real crux of building versus buying – how much time can my firm save over the course of the year with an automated solution? Human error. With more than 1.1

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

With old rules evolving into new ones, geographic boundaries and their own set of regulations are just some of the many complexities that add friction to the process of international business. Bullock discussed the compliance challenges of various payment scheme regulations that cross-border merchants often need to confront.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 6, 2021

The Priorities have been much-anticipated because, under the AML Act, regulators will review and examine financial institutions in part according to how their AML/CFT compliance programs incorporate and further the Priorities, “as appropriate.”. None of this is wrong, of course. technology and trade secrets.

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Abrigo

MAY 29, 2019

The compliance department is already one of the most understaffed areas of the institution and when staff turnover occurs or an employee goes on vacation or family leave, it can be cause for panic. Does tax season or holiday retail volumes give you more alerts than you can handle with current staffing?

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 28, 2022

As the number and frequency of cyber attacks continue to grow, regulators have attempted to enhance cybersecurity protections via increased and more rigid incident reporting obligations, leading to a constantly shifting regulatory patchwork of varying disclosure and timing obligations.

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MyBankTracker

JULY 21, 2020

Additionally, you’ll likely end up being asked to sign a W-8BEN (also known as the Certificate of Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting form). If it does, you might end up paying higher taxes. Taxes to Consider. It needs to be renewed every three years. Don’t let it expire.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The company has also established the first secure and trusted compliance, vetting, KYC (Know Your Customer) and regulatory approval process for 75,000 China-based sellers (and growing) so that global marketplaces can have access to this massive eCommerce engine without operational, logistical, technological, payment or ERP fears.

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San Francisco Compliance Regulation Branding 101

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As a result of the relative lag in technology adoption, organizations are less adept at getting all the information they need to streamline those supplier relationships, such as tax information or other crucial items that he said “cry for information … it’s a very risky process to pay the wrong people.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

And in the wake of all those sales lies a pressing issue for merchants plying their trades online: figuring out the tax liabilities. At the same time, navigating tax policies is proving to be a complex business. tax policy at Avalara , noted that this holiday season is the second one post-Wayfair. The hard part?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Regulations . EU Regulators Plan New Rules For Big Tech . European Union watchdogs intend to gear new regulations aimed at fighting election-related disinformation toward Big Tech firms such as Apple and Facebook as opposed to smaller tech players. India Telecom Watchdog Decides To Not Regulate OTTs .

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Banking 2020

MARCH 19, 2015

It’s hard to think of two industries more regulated than healthcare and banking. Launching a business in either arena means ploughing through a plethora of compliance mandates, all designed specifically to protect the customers of each. That’s of course appropriate, but there are odd disconnects at the core of it all.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

Visma Connect recently interviewed Jürgen Krieg, FICO's head of global compliance sales. In this excerpt from that article, Jürgen elaborates on the importance of compliance. . At FICO, I am responsible for planning and implementing growth strategies to develop new markets, and the expansion of our compliance business globally.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Under Project Catalyst, the CFPB has launched a Trial Disclosure Program and approved research pilots on early intervention credit counseling and tax-time saving. Moreover, no-action letters would not provide an interpretation of a statute or regulation nor a safe harbor from the Bureau’s supervision and enforcement authority.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection watchdog, has hit Amazon and Google with significant financial penalties for allegedly contravening regulations on the digital advertising trackers known as “cookies,” CNBC reported. Amazon was told to pay 35 million euros (approximately $42.5

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Tomorrow's Transactions

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Unlike our own Minister of Finance, he is actually an economist and he spent a decade as the Director General of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce so he understands the relationship between regulation and business very, very well. Matteo is much too kind, of course, but it was a fun event. Under Pax Mongolia, China prospered.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Platform operators and merchants must conduct due diligence related to everything from intellectual property and tariffs to tax laws and FX rates. There’s a relatively new wrinkle, too, as Europe has mandated new data privacy processes in the wake of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Working with Regulators.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Further, actually touching client funds immediately makes these apps into regulated custodians or money transmitters or financial advisors, which means a lot of compliance cost for little upside. Certainly, regulators will be asking the same question as the space grows more popular. all Fintech unicorns?—?that Sound familiar? (5)

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Suppliers, of course, want to collect on receivables outstanding, getting cash into accounts for goods and services provided. Paper is the conduit of communications and payments (via checks, of course), and is the way payables have been tracked and satisfied over centuries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The storyline, of course, seems a bit at odds with the title of the show (which not surprisingly lasted only one season) but it stayed with me. Which, of course, would leave consumers possibly contending with late payments for those billers – and a big mess to have to clean up. In other words, not very much for useful stuff.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Community banking priorities of reducing regulatory burden and institutionalizing tiered regulation, as well as addressing the risks and market distortions created by too-big-to-fail institutions are likely to rank high on Shelby’s and Brown’s legislative goals for the new Congress. He’s a free-market conservative,” Lynch says.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Financial institutions (FIs) that service the industry, she recently told PYMNTS, “don’t have the compliance people, processes or automated tools in place to meet the required guidelines — and are unknowingly putting their clients at risk.”. According to Lang, traditional FIs cannot meet this regulatory compliance and reporting need.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Of course, everyone who has actually lived life, and been in business to actually build a business, knows “nothin’, and ooooh nothin’ and I mean nothin’ is really free.” (Now Payday lenders, of course, make highly risky loans to people who need to borrow money and don’t have any collateral except for their weekly paychecks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That Mark Zuckerberg showed remarkable restraint in the face of being asked, repeatedly, over the course of two days and 10 hours, questions that highlighted that lack of understanding. Those searches are prompted by a consumer’s interest in discovering the answer to something: When are federal taxes due? trillion searches a year.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

These APIs handle everything from acceptance and processing to settlement and reconciliation, while ensuring compliance and security. This process also comes with hurdles like regulations, fees, compliance standards, and payment card issuers — all of which become increasingly complex for international transactions.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Heavy-handed regulators. The Gonzo team understands the value of well-designed regulations and standards, and we too despise the “gotcha” behavior of Wells Fargo and other players who institutionalize manipulating the consumer. Hard to imagine a lot of deal signings headed into 2018 – except the IRS, of course. Payments chaos.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This regulation reduced trading profits and created a need to cut costs, spurring investment banks to spin off unprofitable divisions or eliminate them entirely. And across equity research and sales & trading, poor performances and new regulations have led to widespread layoffs as banks have figured out they can do more with less.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What happens when you give fintech nerds a healthy dose of wine and cocktails over the course of 4 hours? Given the pending PSD2 regulation in Europe, almost half of the technology we saw on stage at FinovateEurope had some sort of PSD2 compliance element. You get honest opinions about what is new and next in fintech.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

PSD2 is here, of course, changing the way consumers and companies access data. Compliance impacts friction — likely increasing it. In those verticals, there is a continued and growing need to combat crime and terrorism and satisfy an environment zeroed in on anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations. “As

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Data Illinois Taxes Customer Experience 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Specific tax and other legal requirements for payroll vary across jurisdictions, meaning international payroll can lead an enterprise to noncompliance. Of course, the issue of exposure to foreign exchange volatility is a massive challenge. ” Some of those errors can be costly to the organization as a whole.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Invoicing, payments, inventory management, compliance, tax levies — generally speaking, no one founded a small business from a burning desire to manage any of those things (unless, of course, the SMB founded specifically targets one of those areas), but managing all of those things is a necessary part of any successful business.

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