PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

And as reported by sites such as American Banker and National Law Review , a bipartisan group of senators is working on a bill that may reform the Bank Secrecy Act, which in turn may raise the threshold for reporting currency transaction reports to $30,000, from the current levels of $10,000. This would be the first boost in 25 years.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. FDIC), the states and the courts. A lack of safety and soundness rules will expose the financial system to significant vulnerabilities.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

In Ireland, reported CryptoGlobe , the Irish cabinet has approved legislation that will bring more regulation to the sector. Separately, in India, the action toward crypto regulation seems to be … inaction. The site noted that the new rules still await passage by the country’s legislative body. In the U.S.,

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 18, 2022

After moving alone in 2020 to reform its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Reserve Board in issuing a joint notice of proposed rulemaking setting forth proposed amendments to their regulations implementing the CRA.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 17, 2021

On May 19, 2021, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing , “Oversight of Prudential Regulators: Ensuring the Safety, Soundness, Diversity, and Accountability of Depository Institutions.” The scheduled witnesses are: Todd Harper, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.

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Cisco

JULY 12, 2022

As a key provider of technology for mission-critical financial system infrastructures across the globe, Cisco is held to the highest levels of scrutiny in the financial services regulatory audit chain. These systems are continually being updated with newer and better ones; however, it takes a long time to sunset the legacy technology.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Over the last 90 days, we have let clients know about the federal banking regulators planned cryptocurrency road map , explained what steps national banks need to take to begin crypto activities , provided thoughts on the possibility of a U.S. Although not stated, FDIC insurance of stablecoin deposits would almost have to be required.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 20, 2020

federal and state financial institution regulators have taken meaningful, proactive steps to acknowledge financial inequality issues, reach out to traditionally underserved populations to expand access to credit, and further protect consumers from discrimination. This blog post contains a summary of those efforts.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Meet Competitive Pressures: National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for seven, ten, or 20-year fixed-rate loans. Second, community banks should use FDIC-insured institutions as hedge providers, and the hedges must be structured as qualified financial contracts (QFC).

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2020

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) includes the following key provisions that affect financial institutions and regulation of financial institutions: Section 4003 – Emergency Relief and Taxpayer Provisions. Section 4008 – Debt Guaranty Authority. Section 4009 – Temporary Government In The Sunshine Act Relief.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 4, 2018

"The FDIC recently has observed instances of liquidity stress at a small number of insured banks." So opened the Summer 2017 FDIC Supervisory Insights issue. Regulators and consultants promulgate this untruth. He was confident in his bank's liquidity position, but felt regulators could artificially create a liquidity problem.

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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 key is simple: financial institutions just need to improve the efficiency of their people and systems. The question is, how to do this, while keeping the regulators happy?

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Locality Bank, a digital-first community bank serving south Florida that opened in January, is run by industry veterans with such successful track records that regulators signed off on their application for a charter in less than a year. Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. That’s no small feat for any de novo, especially during a pandemic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

The guidance did not change any regulation, but clarified the regulator’s stance on the loans, Reuters reported. Regulatory uncertainty forced banks out of this space, leaving families to rely on pawn shops, costly payday lenders or loosely regulated online lending during times of financial stress.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As well, the form has a long history of transmitting national values and providing cultural, political and even economic education — one need only dig deep into the comic scene during World War II to understand that. We hope this comic book helps illustrate the importance of regulations and compliance professionals around the globe.”.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Federal banking regulators have been busy in this space. In the Joint Statement, the Agencies state that they “recognize that the merging crypto-asset sector presents potential opportunities and risks for banking organizations, their customers, and the overall financial system.” Ancillary custody services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Small banks do not want to compete with the Amazons and Walmarts of the world when it comes to offering financial services for clients — and as of today, they more or less are protected from having to do so by regulations that prevent banks’ holding companies from branching too far outside of core financial services businesses.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The better prepared, the less likely they are to run afoul of the continually shifting regulations. Regulators and industry consultants agree that community banks are generally doing a great job handling their regulatory oversight and requirements. Be aware of existing or emerging risk concerns. in Kent, Ohio.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 1, 2018

1010.100(d) — and their subsidiaries which are subject to the jurisdiction of the OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, or NCUA. 5318(l) for certain premium finance loans. The Order applies to “banks” — as defined at 31 C.F.R.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently sent a letter to Powell raising this concern, noting that the Fed’s “anemic scrutiny of applications for mergers and acquisitions [M&A] raises concerns that [it] may oversee a wave of bank consolidation to the detriment of consumers and the financial system.”

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Abrigo

APRIL 23, 2015

OCC guidance on Community Bank Supervision states all national banks must receive a full-scope, on-site exam at least annually. It would also allow examiners to focus more attention and resources on the nation’s riskier banks. The bill, spearheaded by Senator Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Senator Pat Toomey, R-PA.,

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 20, 2017

The banking system is stable, which is critical to national and state economies. According to the FDIC , disparate impact occurs when a policy or practice applied equally to all applicants has a disproportionate adverse impact on applicants in a protected group. I got news for our lawmakers and regulators. Also critical.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Ballard Spahr LLP has submitted a comment letter to the OCC in support of its proposed rule , “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” (the “Proposed Rule”). Three virtually identical Federal Interest Statutes govern interest that may be charged by Banks: Section 85 of the National Bank Act (“NBA”), 12 U.S.C. §

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 19, 2015

Section 342 of Dodd-Frank directs each of the federal financial regulatory agencies to create an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) to oversee diversity efforts at the agencies, and further, to develop standards for assessing diversity policies and practices at regulated financial entities.

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Abrigo

JUNE 2, 2021

The guidance emphasizes a risk-focused approach to examinations and refocuses the regulators to scope each exam according to the unique financial institution, not to use a one-size-fits-all approach. Although this advisory is dated 2014, it is top-of-conversation among regulators even today. BSA Rules and Regulation. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

regulations have not only mandated traditional FIs to open customer data to third-party FinTechs on the authorization of joint customers, the regulatory landscape has also encouraged greater competition in the small business banking space, giving rise to a flock of challenger banks. market is not like others across the globe.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Among those agencies, alphabetically speaking: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the National Credit Union Administration.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

While marketplace lending platforms and alternative finance players first surfaced to compete with traditional financial institutions (FIs), many large banks have now realized that collaborating with these companies is the way to better service SMBs — and without the added investment in developing proprietary systems.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 15, 2020

On May 20, 2020, the OCC issued a final rule to “strengthen and modernize” its existing Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) regulations. The OCC acted alone in issuing the final CRA rule without waiting to achieve consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued the proposed rule.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

The bank’s mortgage company has developed a national retail lending presence over the last 18 months using phones and email, rather than branch offices. “We Electronic signatures are accepted by banking regulators and meet state standards under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 23, 2016

According to a 2015 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , seven percent of US households were unbanked, meaning they had no account at an insured financial institution, and 19% were underbanked, meaning they used non-traditional financial providers like pre-paid cards and/or payday lenders.

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American Banker

JUNE 9, 2016

Regulators need to start paying attention to "denial-of-system" attacks as one of the triggers that could bring down a systemically important institution.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

Percentage of Uninsured Deposits: At the time of failure, SVB had approximately 88% of their deposits above the FDIC-insured $250k limit and ran at 95% at the end of last year. Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 12, 2022

However, regulators themselves have been criticized for encouraging de-risking by driving highly risk-adverse decisions by FIs, who are unwilling to take the chance and assume the compliance costs of doing business with specific customers who may in fact be “legitimate,” but whose risk profile is deemed to be high due to their group affiliation.

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American Banker

MAY 9, 2016

The Federal Reserve deserves praise for a proposal that would strengthen financial stability by eliminating the rights of counterparties to tear up derivatives contracts in a failure.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

These agencies had input: the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC and the National Credit Union Administration. No one knows yet how in-depth the regulators might want those assessments.”. The FFIEC is reviewing an Excel version created with banker input. For example: Who manages each piece?

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

These agencies had input: the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC and the National Credit Union Administration. No one knows yet how in-depth the regulators might want those assessments.”. The FFIEC is reviewing an Excel version created with banker input. For example: Who manages each piece?

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