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6 Reasons Financial Institutions Are Embracing Risk and Regulation Tactics

Perficient

Legal Obligations and Regulatory Frameworks It is well-known that financial institutions operate within a complex web of laws and regulations. Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness Adopting regulatory risk and compliance practices is not merely a box-ticking exercise. The Role of Regulatory Risk and Compliance 1.

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Note to Regulators: Exercising Fiduciary Responsibility is Not a Community Bank Board Problem – But You Might Make It One!

Finer Points

As community bankers we have a fiduciary responsibility to our customers and communities as well as our shareholders.

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Big Tech Increasingly In Regulators’ Spotlight — And Crosshairs

PYMNTS

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks — OK, make that months — for big tech firms as regulators look ever more closely at business tactics. They already have taken a hard look at their types of data and how they collect, store, and use it,” Rader said.

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California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation announces plans to exercise expanded powers under Consumer Financial Protection Law

CFPB Monitor

In its January 2021 monthly bulletin , the DFPI stated that, with the CCFPL now in effect, the DFPI will begin exercising its “expanded powers to better protect consumers from unlawful, unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices.” In the bulletin, the DFPI outlines its plans to implement the CCFPL and exercise its expanded powers.

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3 Key Takeaways from XLoD 2024

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The event brought together the world’s top financial institutions and regulators to discuss the future of non-financial risk and control. During the discussion, several risk executives explained their bank used to develop RCSA goals annually, which had become a routine exercise. Many hands rose immediately.

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2022 Dodd-Frank Stress Test Scenarios Released

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Federal bank regulators work together to design Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (“CCAR”) stress tests that are designed to ensure that even in the case of a severe recession, significant banks can lend to households and businesses. As repeated by federal bank regulators, the required economic scenarios are not forecasts.

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The Fast and the Furious

Chris Skinner

Any bank outsourcing such functions opens themselves up to regulatory risk: The requirements are primarily there to ensure that the outsourcing of the regulated activity, service or function does not lead to an outsourcing of responsibility by the entity in question, or pose a barrier to effective supervision of the specific entity by a regulator.