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JUNE 26, 2020

Dombrovskis told the Times he will ask the 27-nation bloc’s markets supervisor to evaluate BaFin’s handling of the one-time rising star German financial technology company. “We We need to clarify what went wrong.”. A mid-July deadline for a reply from ESMA has been set, he added.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Bitcoin is about to get even more scrutiny by regulators, on a global stage. As reported by Reuters this week, Lagarde said at a conference sponsored by the newswire that bitcoin should be regulated — worldwide. She went on to say that “there has to be regulation. She pointed to the crypto’s use in criminal activity.

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Heartland Tri-State began operations in 1985 under the name First National Bank of Elkhart. Mr. Shan Hanes, who served as the bank’s President and CEO until its closure, joined the firm in 1993 as an agricultural loan officer and Informational Technology Officer. He was promoted to President and CEO in 2008.

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New BOI requirements and how financial institutions can comply Here's what FinCEN's recent final rule for beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting says and how anti-money laundering (AML) programs will access BOI information. It also creates safeguards to ensure that the information is protected. Effective Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Blaine Luetkemeyer would significantly change data security and breach notification standards for the financial services and insurance industries. Most notably, the proposed legislation would create a national standard for data security and breach notification and preempt all current state law on the matter.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If approved as written, professionals involved in real estate closings and settlements will have to report information to FinCEN about non-financed residential real estate transfers to legal entities or trusts. residential real estate sector but safeguarding our economic and national security.” Know the red flags for money laundering.

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JULY 9, 2020

A new rule from the United Nations will require connected cars sold in Japan, South Korea and the European Union, among other places, to be protected against cyberattacks, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Japan said it would begin implementing the rules next year, and South Korea plans to introduce some regulations this year.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The new regulations, if adopted after a comment period, would require banks and some other institutions to obtain and report the identities of parties engaging in certain digital transactions, including payments involving what are called "unhosted wallets" – effectively secret bank accounts that hold cryptocurrency.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Two individuals from Russia who were recently sanctioned by the Treasury Department purportedly put into place copycat websites for cryptocurrency exchanges that that tricked people into providing login information, CoinDesk reported. After that time, they purportedly stole ether, bitcoin and NEO to the tune of $20 million.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

The National ATM Council (NAC) argued in testimony to the Committee on Consumer Affairs of the New York City Council last week that a proposed ordinance would impose costly and burdensome new security regulations on ATM operators all around the city. said Renard in the same press release.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The Cyberspace Administration of China is considering a revamping of internet oversight regulations, rules that have not been updated in more than 20 years, according to a Reuters report on Friday (Jan. The plan to revise cyberspace regulations comes at a time when China is stepping up the scrutiny of tech giants.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

increased regulation over content delivered online through platforms may be on the horizon. This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. In the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Facebook could face coordinated regulation by nine countries after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to be questioned by an international committee on fake news. I would like to see us look at a set of rules through the OECD or [a United Nations] international convention,” she said, according to the FT.

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JUNE 16, 2020

But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A recent report released by the United Nations found that 132 out of 194 countries have now introduced data protection regulations of some kind, all varying in terms of what type of information they protect and the severity of their restrictions. Around The Data Protection World.

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. In other news, the government of Iran is aiming to limit digital currency exchanges with so-called “currency smuggling” regulations, CoinDesk reported. dollars and Ukrainian hryvnias.

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JULY 27, 2020

The OCC issued a letter last week stating that “a national bank [and a federal savings association] may provide. The letter states: Consistent with OCC regulations and guidance on custody activities, the risks associated with an individual account should be addressed prior to acceptance.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

When the impact stretches across oceans, nations and demographics, though, and those affected number in the hundreds of millions, a sea change is a-swelling. How can they do that in an environment in which the security status quo is no longer appropriate? Equifax brings a few key questions to mind. That cat’s never coming back.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG) in India has published a report recommending that laws around blockchain should be based on what the technology does, and not the technology itself, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. said that national policy might not be enough in terms of crypto regulation. . “We

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JULY 29, 2022

and related entities (collectively, “Harris Jewelry”), a national jewelry retailer that markets and sells military-themed gifts, to resolve their lawsuit which alleged that Harris Jewelry had engaged in unlawful sales and credit practices targeting servicemembers.

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JULY 21, 2021

As part of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) first national priorities list for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) policies, one important priority continues to be detecting, reporting, and preventing terrorist financing. Know emerging trends and red flags for terrorist financing.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The National Standardization Group for Facial Recognition Technology was launched last week by Hong Kong-based SenseTime and 27 other tech companies. Although facial recognition and biometrics offer security authentication and transaction speed, the measure also opens the door to data theft as cybercriminals seek ways to beat the system.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Ride-hailing app company Uber, which made news when it covered up a huge data breach that exposed roughly 600,000 driver’s license numbers, could face investigations by regulators around the globe. 22), regulators in the U.K., s National Cyber Security Centre to determine how large the breach was and how many people in the U.K.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Secure software practices are at the heart of all system development; doubly so for highly regulated industries such as health-care providers. As a best-practice it is recommended to adopt automation of certain security audits, integration of compliance oversight into key development process areas (e.g. Source Code Analysis.

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JULY 16, 2020

In a surprise win for privacy advocates, the European Court of Justice has ruled companies will face restrictions on storing information about European Union (EU) residents on U.S. The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Alphabet Inc.’s

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APRIL 9, 2020

The cybercriminals demanded $6 million in ransom with a promise that they would not release the sensitive information of Travelex customers, including birthdates and credit card numbers. They claimed to have birthdates, credit card information and national insurance numbers and demanded the $6 million payment.

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This leads to many generations of installed technology sets with diverse hardware and software systems, all that need to be tracked and managed, secured, and audited. A number of our financial institution customers are regulated by multiple, and different, regulatory bodies. Streamlining the IT audit process. In the U.S.

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JULY 16, 2018

New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. In another nod toward privacy, Microsoft wants to see government regulation of facial recognition technology. Bloomberg reported that the top 10 regulated banks in the U.S. Facial Recognition’s Need for Legislation?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry. Insider risk.

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MAY 19, 2020

The Security Service of Ukraine is reportedly holding a hacker for allegedly selling a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, CoinDesk reported. Meanwhile, BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report.

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MARCH 27, 2017

As far as cryptocurrencies have come in recent years, a number of security and fraud risk elements still remain. Recently, the nation’s cybercrime police unit claimed to have successfully prosecuted drug traffickers based on bitcoin transaction information sourced by a specialized software developed by the Danish National Cyber Crime Center.

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Informing clients that KYC practices are in place for their protection can help alleviate the tension. KYC questions may provoke skepticism or confusion, but assurance that disclosing the required information is in the client’s best interest often eases concerns. Miss” and thus alienating nonbinary customers.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Chinese authorities are getting more power to inspect the information technology, or IT, of companies and access property information and business data as part of new cybersecurity rules, reported the Wall Street Journal. It justifies for the authorities the right to basically copy or access anything,” Zarit said. “It

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Aiming to beef up security in connected and driverless cars , a group of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives that would put the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in charge of studying security issues for cars and trucks that are connected and eventually driverless.

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MAY 15, 2018

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s main investigative agency in the country, has filed charges in the Punjab National Bank fraud case against Nirav Modi, the jewelry retail owner, and his uncle Mehul Choksi, as well as senior executives at the state-run lender.

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MAY 22, 2017

That depends, says counterterrorism and cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke, on what companies, banks and regulators are willing to learn from the incident. s National Health Service. s National Health Service. After the latest worldwide cyberattack, the question remains: What’s going to change? The Digital Threat to Commerce.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Ride-hailing company Uber has revealed in its transparency report that it has received an increased number of requests for data information from the U.S. Uber said it provided information on 34 million users to U.S. regulators and 1.8 million users to Canadian regulators. government, according to a report by TechCrunch.

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