PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the pace of digital innovation across the financial sector, and credit unions (CUs) are no exception. Many CUs are investing heavily in new digital technologies to help serve their members during the COVID-19 pandemic, but not all innovations are successful. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Staying abreast of these various compliance shifts can be costly and challenging for banks, but doing so is necessary to ensure that financial institutions’ (FIs) operations can run smoothly and ward off cyberattacks. Compliance, Cybercrime And The Cloud . EU and U.K. EU and U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Keeping customers' digital payment data safe and secure is a critical part of doing business in the digital economy, and following Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance guidelines is an effective way for firms to accomplish this. Getting Up to Speed on Compliance. This can be particularly burdensome for smaller firms.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. For marijuana businesses, with compliance a critical yet challenging factor, these payment rails don’t always adequately address the needs of the sector.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 31, 2022

On May 19, 2022, the Associate Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), Alessio Evangelista, spoke at the Chainalysis Links Conference in New York City on the topic of “The Intersection of Cryptocurrencies and National Security.” Responsible Innovation “.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Slow compliance checks and sluggish processing times are commonplace, especially on the legacy systems still used by many banks around the world. Automating Compliance. Cash payments are quickly falling to the wayside, with only 26 percent of all U.S. consumer purchases made with cash.

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Bobsguide

MARCH 24, 2022

Finastra and CloudMargin Collateral Management as a Service offering accelerates compliance with UMR regulation. Stuart Connolly, CEO of CloudMargin, said, “Now is the time for Phase 6 firms, that will be subject to UMR for initial margin calls, to start addressing operational and technological challenges ahead of the deadline.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. I travel three weeks out of four to meet our stakeholders in the markets they are in — customers, agents, regulators and employees. PYMNTS: What does a day in your life look like? I try to keep this to a minimum.

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Perficient

JUNE 1, 2023

We also enable clients to use Writer’s snippets to follow strict compliance regulations and efficiently include disclosures in their Sales and Marketing. Boost operational efficiency and rapid scalability by effortlessly generating new documents using existing data and content with the help of AI-powered document creation.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 4, 2019

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is pushing ahead with its Innovation Pilot Program, a mechanism that will allow regulators to work with financial services companies as new products are being developed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovations like the Internet of Things (IoT), telematics and mobile payments are primed to disrupt the fleet space, but the industry may not be making use of these tools as much as it perhaps should be. The problem is that certain technologies struggle to gain traction within fleet operations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

The volatility of cryptocurrencies and their existence in what’s often a grey area of regulatory compliance make businesses operating in this sector an unattractive target for traditional financial institutions. FIs themselves struggle with fully understanding how this industry operates, too. As Karalevi?ius

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2019

regulators have taken a greater interest over the last year in technology startups promising to reinvent finance. Several financial-technology companies are looking to staff up in regulatory compliance, according to job posting data reviewed […].

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Abrigo

APRIL 19, 2016

banks incorporate “responsible innovation” as they adapt quickly to these advances, but what exactly does that mean? In a recent whitepaper (download), the regulator outlined the general approach it will take as it evaluates innovative products, services and processes that OCC-regulated banks may offer or perform.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

IBM RegTech Innovations. These technologies bring capabilities that speed risk modeling, automate fraud detection, ensure regulatory compliance, enable distributed trust, and protect sensitive financial information. Transforming how financial institutions operate. Today the process of ensuring compliance is highly manual.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Innovation is oxygen in payments. For financial services firms, innovation is spurring speed, killing friction and fostering loyalty among customers. That, itself, begs the question: What is innovation, really? explained there is wide variation in the definition of innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From the back-office bean counter to the overseer of cybersecurity and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, the modern corporate treasury has undergone an extreme makeover in recent years that goes well beyond its historic roots in cash management. The other is technological innovation. i2C: Regulators Circle The Wagons On Big Tech.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on daily business has generated new questions surrounding these initiatives that regulators are now scrambling to answer. and the EU. Australia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector companies that have developed tech to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the organization said in a release. FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 12, 2018

For one thing, rising interest rates will increase their cost of funds, and perhaps make their offerings less attractive, and for another, regulations may arrive that make operating their businesses more expensive. Online lenders may own more than half of the personal lending market, but they face serious headwinds.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 16, 2017

Last year, regulators in New York decided to take cybersecurity matters for financial institutions into their own hands, releasing a set of rules (which went into effect in March), requiring banks and other FIs to establish a stricter cybersecurity program.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 7, 2021

The CFPB has issued an approval order through its Compliance Assistance Sandbox Policy (CAS Policy) to Synchrony Bank in connection with a proposed “dual-feature” credit card (DFCC) program. The order has a 36-month duration. The Bureau also identifies “additional factors” it considered in issuing the approval order.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is being transformed by not only rapidly-evolving regulatory standards and growing costs of non-compliance, but also by the clear and present need for greater GRC adoption/engagement – by the first line of defense – while delivering added value by empowering business users.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

payroll processing company Payescape , said this area of the back office may have a larger influence on how accountants operate than some may believe. That’s particularly true when it comes to compliance and data security. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a prime example, said Jones. In the U.K.,

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. RegTech has two aims: increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of compliance.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. RegTech has two aims: increasing the effectiveness and the efficiency of compliance.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jamal El-Hindi, the deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), spoke at the 2019 Money Transmitter Regulators Association Annual Conference on Wednesday (Sept. 11) about the importance of innovation and the regulation of non-banking financial institutions (NBFI), according to a release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Financial services and payments companies today are required to enable and support innovative new ways for customers to conduct financial transactions from any device, and from any location, without exposing themselves or their data to risk,” he said. Greater Security Without Compromising UX.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Unlike social media … the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch.”. One thing he wants to do right away is to enhance the coordination between financial regulators in the country. “To The Bank of England approaches Libra with an open mind but not an open door,” Carney said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2017

The B2B payments industry is finally beginning to hustle when it comes to technological innovation. And as traditional financial institutions (FI) begin to recognize the value of collaborating with FinTechs, these banks can similarly shake their reputation for being innovation laggards and promote B2B payments progress while they’re at it. .

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

Today, banks are dealing with an overwhelming morass of regulations – more than 20,000 new ones in 2015 alone. By the year 2020, there may be 300 million pages of banking regulations. Wouldn’t it be nice if the specific regulations that applied to your business were highlighted? We call it cognitive compliance.

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Insights on Business

MARCH 5, 2019

Reducing costs but appeasing regulators seems like an oxymoron, yet, many AML compliance and operations leaders are being asked to do just that. The question is, how to do this, while keeping the regulators happy? Even better, regulators have recently begun encouraging the application of these techniques.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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Abrigo

JUNE 10, 2020

The former Chief Operational Risk Officer was fined for insufficient action on AML program deficiencies and staffing issues. Abrigo Compliance & Engagement Director Terri Luttrell, CAMS-Audit, says that fines against individual BSA professionals are rare. The regulators don’t care what your budget is,” Luttrell says.

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FICO

MARCH 7, 2023

Home Blog FICO Responsible AI: Are European Firms Ready for the Regulators? There are significant changes coming in Europe, which highlight getting a handle on responsible AI use, with the banking and financial services sector among those that will be most impacted by increasing regulation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Along with a new name, the Diem Association is also asserting its independence, a move that comes after concerns raised by regulators around the world about Facebook’s cryptocurrency project — specifically, the potentially negative impacts like the weakening of central banks as well as money laundering and privacy violations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

There’s a worry with regulators, Vestager said, because Fitbit is a data-heavy company. “In The Google deal has rivals calling regulators to make sure everything is on the up and up. Vestager said regulators need to consider how the acquisition affects other companies. Google made a deal to buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion euro ($2.65

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