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5 reasons your financial institution should attend the ThinkBIG 2024 conference

Abrigo

REGISTER Takeaway 1 Banking and compliance professionals rely on ThinkBIG to elevate their understanding of industry shifts and regulatory pressures. Banking and compliance professionals rely on the annual conference to elevate their understanding of industry shifts and regulatory pressures that hammer them daily.

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Texas judge rebukes CFPB over anti-discrimination policy

American Banker

A district court judge ruled that Congress did not give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau broad authority to look for discrimination, putting a major dent into the bureau's efforts to apply anti-discrimination principles to non-lending products such as advertising.

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AML human trafficking red flags and other ways banks can support victims

Abrigo

Two recent guests of the Abrigo podcast Ahead of the Curve shared ways that their organizations, Made Free and the Texas Advocacy Project (TAP), fight against human trafficking. Look into wires to and from foreign countries more skeptically,” said Terri Luttrell, Director of Compliance and Engagement at Abrigo. “A

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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

In such an environment, community banks should focus on the power of their relationships with customers, according to Kent Kirby, a retired banker with 39 years of experience in all aspects of commercial banking; lending, loan review, back-room operations, portfolio management, portfolio analytics, and credit policy.

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Budget Surplus? 5 Ways to Invest in Your Financial Institution with This Year’s Excess Budget

Abrigo

In a competitive lending environment, many banks and credit unions are concerned about losing good-quality loans if they over-price them. It's "business as usual" as far as expectations for compliance staff to remain alert for illicit financial activity. Lending & Credit Risk. Consumer Lending. Streamline loan review.

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

PYMNTS

The summary, according to the site, would direct the FCC to develop new regulations that would detail how the law may protect social media platforms as they move to take content off their sites – and to take those new regulations into account when investigating or filing suit against those firms. CFPB and Payday Lending.

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9 ways to manage credit risk

Independent Banker

Effects of the pandemic and other factors creating unpredictability have changed how community banks approach their credit and lending operations. Understanding the impact of a rising rate environment on a concentrated portion of your lending portfolio is critical.”. It also makes a good impression on regulators.