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FTC seeks comment on proposed amendments to safeguards and privacy rules

CFPB Monitor

Requiring periodic reports submitted to the boards of directors to ensure compliance. The amendments are also designed to ensure that non-bank financial technology entities, fintechs, are subject to cybersecurity standards similar to those that banks are subject to under the FFIEC interagency guidelines.

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Flywire CEO: How Higher Ed Must Find The Flexibility To Manage Cash Flow

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Many moving parts remain uncertain, however, thwarting educators from being able to definitively predict cash flows. “This has hit so many geographies and industries that this could be the first test in a long time of the responsibility of financial transactions.” ”

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How Higher Education Finds The Flexibility To Manage Cash Flow

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Many moving parts remain uncertain, however, thwarting educators from being able to definitively predict cash flows. “This has hit so many geographies and industries that this could be the first test in a long time of the responsibility of financial transactions.” ”

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FDIC issues final rule on brokered deposits and interest rate limits applicable to less than well capitalized institutions

CFPB Monitor

The final rule, which includes material differences from the FDIC’s proposal, becomes effective April 1, 2021, with full compliance extended until January 1, 2022. Accordingly, the definition of a “brokered deposit” turns on the definition of a “deposit broker.”. Key items in the final rule include: “Deposit broker” definition.

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Closing the gate: House adopts ENABLERS Act amendment to 2023 NDAA

CFPB Monitor

Currently, and depending on the facts, the BSA often does not apply to payment processors, who often fit into an exemption under the BSA’s definition of a “money services business,” or MSBs, subject to AML requirements. financial system adopt anti-money laundering procedures that can help detect and prevent the laundering of corrupt funds.”.

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It’s Dreadful Being a Buyer of Bank Technology

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For regional and community banks there has never been a more frustrating time to be a buyer versus a builder of financial technology. As bank tech buyers, executives need to invest more in these purchases than they are doing today, and they must build a better rigor around the discipline of technology performance management.

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Open banking APIs are open for business

Insights on Business

See how open banking APIs are transforming financial services (and businesses, too!). I wasn’t particularly inspired by the Wikipedia definition , so I’ll give you mine. The emergence of financial technology (fintech) and the push of regulators for more competition are disaggregating and open this closed value chain.

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