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Varo Achieves Milestone AsĀ First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

PYMNTS

On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S. million.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Real estate markets are vulnerable to money laundering and fraud because of their transaction size and appreciation over time. Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. Why real estate? In 2017, over 5.51

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CardX CEO: Ban On Card Surcharge Ban May Lead to Lower Interchange Fees

PYMNTS

As noted in this space by Karen Webster, the ban on the ban ā€“ where, now, in New York, surcharges are allowed when merchants post total prices for transactions ā€“ shows the inefficiencies of regulation that supersede card networksā€™ own rules governing merchant activities. population.

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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.ā€. In a microcosm of the national expansion, New Hampshireā€™s newly online sports gambling program raked in $2.31 The firm entered the public markets with a valuation of $3.3

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Santander Gets Hit With Fine Due To Overdraft Practices

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According to the CFPB, the telemarketing vendor Santander contracted with deceptively marketed the overdraft service to consumers and signed them up without getting their consent. We will put a stop to any such unlawful practices that harm consumers.ā€.

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Accounting About-Face

Independent Banker

Instead of requiring complex modeling systems for institutions of all sizes, it now explicitly allows community banks to continue using their personal understanding of local markets to determine loan-loss reserves. To their credit, federal regulators have already showed they are on board with the approach laid out in FASBā€™s final standard.

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Data privacy: How to keep customer data safe

Independent Banker

Community bank customers can be at ease knowing that community banks take the protection of their customersā€™ data very seriously, and community banks are regulated by some of the strictest data privacy laws of any sector,ā€ Estep says. CCPA was modeled closely after the European Unionā€™s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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