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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

Abrigo

Multifamily, commercial and automotive loans are driving loan growth among banks in the Northeast, but increasing risk will draw fresh attention from regulators to ensure recent and future growth is sound, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said recently. • Liquidity risk management and adequacy of contingency funding plans.

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The Digital Evolution Of The Online Gaming Ecosystem

PYMNTS

Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”. The betting platform – which is managed via DraftKings, which won the competitive bid for the project – has been operating since late December, and saw a spike in activity over the weekend.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

It has implications for everything from regulatory compliance and risk management to a bank’s ability to engender trust in its customers. The privacy of customers’ personal information is at the forefront of every community banker’s decisions, says Steven Estep, ICBA assistant vice president of operational risk.

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Uber’s Rough Ride Of A Week

PYMNTS

The day before, the news broke that cybercriminals had managed to steal the data of 57 million customers and drivers. All in, hackers managed to nab names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, as well as the data of about 7 million drivers, which includes 600,000 U.S.

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What Shiny New Life Insurance Startups Can Learn From My Mistakes

Tech and Finance

Entrepreneurs resolved to tackle financial services, and life insurance specifically, need to be prepared for a different way of doing things and for the challenges that come with highly regulated industries. If you are truly doing something new, regulation will be a challenge. Everything in life insurance is subject to regulation.

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Partnerships, Pivots And Bookended Data Breaches

PYMNTS

Marcus’ focus will be offering small consumer loans — an area Goldman Sachs has has traditionally avoided but has been pushed toward in recent years as new regulations have forced many venerable Wall Street institutions to think out of the box about revenue streams going forward. Twenty U.S.

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

PYMNTS

Nowhere does that ring truer than in the nascent and growing legal cannabis industry, where billions of dollars flow the old-fashioned way — hand to hand, because of the clash between federal and state regulations over its legality. That’s according to data published at the end of last month, per data from the U.S. without resorting to cash.

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