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5 Reasons Your Financial Institution Should Attend ThinkBIG 2021

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Network with other bankers, auditors, regulators, and Abrigo experts. Abrigo’s annual conferences have brought together industry experts, financial institution peers, BSA/AML professionals, CPAs, auditors, and regulators for nearly two decades. Reasons to attend. Why ThinkBIG 2021?

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

Abrigo

Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue. In 2017, over 5.51

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The Regulation Iceman Commeth For The On-Demand Economy

PYMNTS

Those services launched into virgin territory in terms of regulation — businesses of this kind had never quite existed before — and so the rules and regs in place did not quite manage to directly address them. Reports are that three weeks in, Austin Uber drivers have decamped to San Antonio. The Big Austin Loss .

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

When the 2022/23 ICBA board of directors was introduced at ICBA LIVE in San Antonio, Texas, there was a palpable sense of excitement in the air. Lucas White: We need to continue to differentiate community banks and educate policymakers on why tiered and proportionate regulation is necessary. By Molly Bennett.

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New ICBA chairman Derek Williams’ commitment to community

Independent Banker

Williams (second from left) with ICBA’s 2022/23 executive committee, including outgoing chairman Brad Bolton, at ICBA LIVE 2022 in San Antonio. So, he joined a training program at what was then Citizens & Southern National Bank, once the largest bank in the southeastern U.S.,

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FinCEN Steps up Efforts to Protect Against the Six Biggest Threats to the U.S. Financial System

Abrigo

Blanco discussed the organization’s active approach toward addressing the top financial threats to our financial system, our national security, and our communities and families. FinCEN is committed to addressing compliance failures that put our financial system and national security at risk. The 12 major U.S.

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Education: By Popular Demand

Independent Banker

These in-depth and timely professional development programs are designed exclusively for community bankers and led by nationally recognized industry experts who know the issues community banks grapple with. Many have been bankers themselves and sometimes industry regulators or attorneys. Lead FWD Summit. 11–14, 2016, in Denver.