PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

3 hearing advises that system-wide governance should be established to regulate virtual asset service providers (VASPs), CoinTelegraph reported Monday (Sept. Although regulation could make it hard for some crypto firms to continue operations, Murray said it’s not the BSA’s job to accommodate everyone. financial system.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. Both regulators said proving the necessary capital and profitability have been particularly difficult for […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Reuters reported news on Tuesday that banking regulators from seven states across the United States are working to, as the newswire reported, “streamline” the FinTech reporting process, with an eye on those tech firms having an easier road toward offering their products and services across the nation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington Post. According to the publication, Flowhub will provide compliance, regulatory and reporting support for cannabis companies. The publication cited data from Cowen & Co.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Or maybe a relatively bland extended-stay operation right off the interstate. To learn more about the trend, PYMNTS recently caught up with Kulveer Taggar, co-founder and CEO of Zeus , a digital and mobile-focused operation that puts business travelers into furnished housing that Zeus rents from owners.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To date 43 states and Washington, D.C. The new jumble of state-level and municipal taxation has further obscured already confusing Internet sales tax compliance. It’s all somewhat fragmented and ad hoc at the moment, as city councils coast to coast think of clever ways to leverage the new regulations. Implementation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

A federal judge late last week ordered a stay on the August 2019 compliance date tied to the “ payday lending rule ” mandated roughly two years ago by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB had asked the court to wait until a separate case had been decided. That’s the problem this legislation is looking to solve.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C. Companies that are already in their operational phases will be given advance consideration. “Technology demonstrations should highlight how these innovations work and how financial institutions might use them.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 28, 2016

The amount of regulation in the financial industry is staggering and has understandably been top of mind for most CEOs. My colleagues (shout out to Vincent Hui and Kaleb Seymour ) and I conducted a study for the credit union industry to determine the impact of regulation. The best banks aren’t just compliant with new regulations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. This forces many operations to continue using cash. Marijuana retailers] want to think about growing their businesses, enhancing operations and taking care of their employees,” she said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Wells Fargo — after a year of headaches, hassles and a seemingly unending hit parade of scandals — is now facing the ire of regulators who question why the bank is not refunding insurance money owed to customers who paid off their loans early.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

in a manner that the Secretary determines appropriate to assess compliance” with the amendment. As we will discuss, it applies the BSA to persons providing corporate formation, trust, third-party payment, or similar legal or accounting services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”. states, with only Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington labeling DFS as illegal. The decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports betting – both in-person and online – in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The latest issue involves eSports – one of the rising trends in digital commerce , and one of the ways through which some mall and brick-and-mortar operators hope to revive those retail properties. billion in 2022.”. State Pressure. All that growth is now reportedly attracting the attention of the tax man. The Wayfair Impact.

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FICO

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The potential of alternative data in consumer lending decisions continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., When federal banking agencies recently revised their Q&As for CRA compliance , their focus on the use of alternative data caught my eye.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1960, which criminalizes the operation of unlicensed money transmitting businesses, in order to increase its statutory maximum penalty from five years to ten years of imprisonment, and doubling its maximum criminal fine from $500,000 to $1 million for certain offenses. Amending 18 U.S.C.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The necessity of such regulations is undeniable, however, as lagging data standards leave businesses and consumers open to fraud and boost frustration regarding the speed of digital transactions. Discussions can be further complicated by world events that change the way FIs, businesses and consumers interact. Sixty-three percent of U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out. She effectively ran the bank and its operations. You can't make this stuff up.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

and Puerto Rico banking laws and regulations. 4 First BanCorp (NYSE: FBP) First BanCorp is a full service financial institution with operations in Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and Florida. Interesting that three of the top 5 have some sort of BaaS operation. five-year total return and #2 on the JFB Top 5!

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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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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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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The data is intended to help the CFPB enforce fair lending laws and could also be used by the government and small business lenders to identify the needs of businesses, said Michelle Lucci, Abrigo Regulatory Compliance Manager. Stay up to date on small business lending regulation and other lending trends. Collection Requirements.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Another reason pen tests are increasingly common is that regulations and PCI compliance require banks to furnish annual pen test results. The biggest knock on multifactor authentication is inconvenience, according to Joel Williquette, ICBA’s senior vice president of operational risk policy. a Washington, D.C.-based

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Heavy-handed regulators. Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. One word can summarize this action-packed banking year, GonzoBankers – tiring.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. The path to faster payments in the U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 25, 2019

Therefore, according to the Guidance, the operator of the typical virtual currency exchange platform, kiosk, ATM or vending machine does not represent a money transmitter subject to Pennsylvania licensure. Thus, a state law violation can become a federal violation. A licensing analysis will be based on the handling of the sovereign currency.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

PayPal officially pulled its support of Facebook’s Libra initiative after being a no-show at the Libra Association meeting in Washington, D.C. Trending: How EU Regulators Are Complicating SCA Compliance (Ekata PSDS Tracker). And its investment in MercadoLibre, a Latin American retailer, dropped 10 percent.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Regulators should use consistent and transparent standards when evaluating a community bank’s fair lending practices. Community banks should receive proper notice of any changes to the methodologies, standards or analysis regulators use to assess fair. lending compliance.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. Zenefits skirts compliance regulations. In addition, regulators claimed that as many as 80% of insurance plans sold in Washington state by Zenefits reps were sold illegally by unlicensed brokers. Table of contents. The Honest Company not so honest about labeling.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2011, three banks accounted for half of new mortgage loans, according to the Washington Post. Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert’s innovation in mortgages was to assign regional-specific loan application reviewers, who familiarized themselves with the regulations of certain geographies.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

Compliance Officers. Startups are using AI to automate various steps of the recruitment and on-boarding process, from resume parsing, sentiment analysis in interviews, and using chatbots for monitoring compliance. The Washington Post reports that this could be the only SV startup registered as a law firm. COMPLIANCE OFFICERS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The bill was sponsored by Congressmen Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, Denny Heck of Washington, Steve Stivers of Ohio and Warren Davidson of Ohio — all members of the House Committee on Financial Services. The legislation aims to ensure that state-authorized and regulated cannabis businesses are not forced to operate with cash only.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Wellness checks are not fail-proof, especially considering the FDA’s loosening of regulations around thermal camera systems. It can also be used to track worker compliance. Managing the flow, operation, and sanitization of elevators will be a key component in instilling confidence in returning employees. Company name.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

It caught the Treasury Department, which oversees financial services regulation for the cannabis sector via its FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) branch, off-guard. Those same risks apply for financial service providers too, which have largely left legal marijuana companies to operate entirely on cash.

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Regulation Taxes Compliance United States 101

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

LISTEN NOW Bipartisan support The 2023 SAFE Banking Act: An unclear outlook Takeaway 1 The Senate recently introduced the newest version of marijuana legislation, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act. While 38 states , along with Washington D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Under the DFA, banks that cross over $10 billion in assets face costly regulations such as DFA stress testing, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight and Durbin Amendment compliance, which caps banks’ interchange income. Have regulatory compliance costs skyrocketed as feared? ERM/COMPLIANCE COSTS.

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