CFPB Monitor

APRIL 12, 2021

The CFPB issued a Rescission of Statement of Policy for the previously-issued Statement on Bureau Supervisory and Enforcement Response to COVID-19 Pandemic (March 26, 2020). Rescission of Statement on Bureau Supervisory and Enforcement Response to COVID-19 Pandemic.

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PopularBank

MAY 24, 2024

By Andrew Boland – Director of National Healthcare Financing, Popular Bank A minimum staffing standard for nursing homes across the country was unveiled last month, raising concerns from operators and industry leaders over the impact the mandate will have on their ability to maintain adequate access to long-term care. Stay informed.

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Abrigo

JULY 9, 2024

Takeaway 2 Financial institutions will need to incorporate FinCEN's national AML/CFT priorities into their risk assessments and compliance programs. It also required that FinCEN integrate its AML/CFT policy priorities into financial institutions’ risk assessments. These FinCEN priorities highlight significant threats to the U.S.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Takeaway 3 The specific policy areas outlined below should be carefully considered by credit unions engaged in member business lending. In this blog post, we will delve into the strategies and policies credit unions can adopt to ensure the success and profitability of their MBL programs. Takeaway 2 Start slow.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

ICBA’s National Community Bank Service Award winners for 2021 demonstrate that when their local areas need support, community banks are there with innovative, compassionate and thoughtful responses. The community bank provided nearly 480,000 PPP loans totaling more than $13 billion to businesses across the nation. “I

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

China is struggling to bridge its small businesses to financing for growth, with broader fiscal policy at odds with the initiative, according to reports. The publication pointed to the government’s conflicting policy of stricter lending rules as one reason why efforts to boost small business loan volumes hasn’t taken off.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

In today’s top news, Apple manufacturer and supplier Foxconn has returned to production, the Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with laundering over $100 million in cryptocurrency, and TurboTax’s deal to buy Credit Karma has sparked antitrust concerns. Two Chinese Nationals Charged With Laundering $100M In Crypto.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

A French hospital, in one case, noted that nearly 2,000 surgical masks were removed from its main operating room, while a trauma doctor reportedly took 12 boxes of masks from a storage room at a hospital in Spain. All of the nation’s schools were previously shuttered until mid-March. Grant Shapps, U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

UN Committee Indicates Support For Initiative To Tax Big Tech In Developing Nations. The United Nation’s Tax Committee of Experts has indicated support for an initiative to assist developing nations in taxing Big Tech, Bloomberg Tax reported on Wednesday (Oct. The committee voted 12-10 Friday (Oct. and Facebook Inc. each month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The proof-of-concept was run in partnership with BIS’ Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, the Swiss National Bank and financial infrastructure operator SIX, according to the announcement. It offers potential advantages but faces “major” policy hurdles, according to the announcement.

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ABA Community Banking

MARCH 24, 2021

On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, ABA Senior Counsel Shaun Kern discusses the OCC's recent proposal to revise its rules on permissible bank premises for national banks and federal thrifts, as well as ABA's call for the agency to withdraw the proposal.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We recently reviewed a loan term sheet from a national bank for a $13mm commercial real estate (CRE) loan. This particular national bank has the ability to offer the borrower an interest rate hedge or an on-balance sheet fixed-rate loan. The loan leverage ratio is 10.83 (total debt divided by net operating income (NOI)).

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Perficient

JUNE 5, 2020

This includes static application structure, dynamic application behavior, third-party component patch/version levels, and overall deployment environment compliance with hardened operating systems. Operational Security. Secrets are necessary for the operation of all modern software systems. Third Party Component.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Treasury’s difficulties getting relief money to individuals, has renewed calls for the government to accelerate its FedNow national real-time payments network, still not expected to be operational until at least 2023. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) disbursement fiasco, coupled with the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

“Though the industry moved to enable interoperability of mobile wallets in 2018, this is limited to only P2P payments, and is yet to be expanded to both merchant and agent interoperability and even to work seamlessly at P2P,” according to the draft of the Kenya National Payments System 2021-2025 report.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This dual delivery system is suitable for our national conditions,” said Mu. “It Cielo’s devices operate across 5,500 municipalities in Brazil. As reported this past week, the European Central Bank (ECB) is being advised by ECB board member Yves Mersch that Libra could negatively impact the bank’s ability to set monetary policy.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, solid policies, procedures, and processes must be in place to monitor higher-risk products, services, customers, and geographies, in addition to understanding and detecting fraud typologies. It also directly responds to evolving regulatory requirements, especially with fraud now included in FinCEN’s national priorities.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Lloyd’s of London , the insurance firm, is supporting a new policy that protects digital currency held in digital wallets from hackers, Coindesk reported on Monday (March 2). The policy is reportedly a new insurance type that has a limit that changes with the price fluctuations of covered digital currency assets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The vice president of policy and legal affairs at DJI, Brendan Schulman, said the Federal Aviation Administration should “readily grant waivers on restrictions that might impede beneficial operations.” . There are many use cases for drones that can aid the nation,” said Lisa Ellman, the group’s executive director.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

“While we’re certainly not the first business to require face coverings, we know this is a simple step everyone can take for their safety and the safety of others in our facilities,” said Walmart’s Chief Operating Officer Dacona Smith and Lance de la Rosa, chief operating officer at Sam’s Club, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Those numbers will naturally fluctuate as the mobile wallet gets its chance to shine on the national stage, but experts have already begun to poke holes in the story they tell, if only because of Walmart’s insistence on Walmart Pay operating as its one and only mobile payment method going forward. ” Mathews told RetailWire.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

lawmakers who want information about hosts who go against the company’s policies and don’t comply with local laws. Misleading as well as deceptive listings have also led to customers swindled by “hosts” who take advantage of the cancellation policies of Airbnb per the letter. Airbnb is facing questions from U.S.

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MyBankTracker

APRIL 19, 2021

A 30-year-old male living in Portland will pay $171 per month for full coverage, while a 30-year-old female will pay $185 per month for the same policy. A 75-year-old male living in Portland will pay $196 per month ($2,352 per year), while a 30-year-old male with the same policy will pay $171 per month ($2,052 per year).

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The two units will consolidate bank supervision support, risk analysis, and oversight of national trust banks and important service providers. In addition, this work will contribute to our strategic goal of operating the agency as effectively and efficiently as possible.”. It will support the whole agency and cover issues nationally.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). However, the banking industry doesn’t like that one bit. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The letter, from RILA President Brian Dodge , was addressed to National Governor’s Association Chair Lawrence Hogan (MD) and Vice Chair Andrew Cuomo (NY), asking them to push for specific and consistent mask mandates. RILA has finally had enough of the trend, and asked two governors for help in a letter released on Tuesday morning (July 7).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The ministry’s AML and CFT policies incorporate the suggested policies set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will be monitored by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). During phase one, VASPs will have to demonstrate their compliance with these standards, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

one of the biggest payments processors in the world, one of the top 3 banks in Brazil, one of the big four banks in Australia, the largest national card processor in Europe, and several others),” according to the release. The deals sometimes concerned big players, including “some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world (e.g.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

As watchdogs ramp up oversight of financial institutions and FinTechs, late last year the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission also announced plans to relax restrictions on foreign ownership of banks operating in the country.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In Los Angeles, a widespread glut of shipments has slowed down operations at the nation's busiest container port complex, the Port of Los Angeles , according to CNBC. Exports have declined in 23 of the last 25 months, which CNBC credited partly to trade policies with China. 28) on CNBC, said the cargo volume is up 50 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements , said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global financial stability, as well as monetary policy, according to a report by Bloomberg. Central banks do not put a brake on innovations just for the sake of it.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has shifted priorities in regulatory policy tied to the financial services industry — and for Europe, it is heralding the emergence of a data-driven economy. Maniati noted the transformation had been in place well before COVID and has stretched back over five years, but has seen some urgency in recent months.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

The British government previously implemented a £160 billion package that included a £49 billion bump in funding for operations including the country’s National Health Service and packages of grants and loans for businesses. In the U.S.,

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Abrigo

AUGUST 13, 2024

10 good podcasts for bank & credit union execs & staff These banking podcasts discuss current events, strategic and policy issues, competition, digitalization advice, and more. It also examines how community banks are different from other types of financial institutions and provides strategies for optimal operations.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 20, 2021

Transnational Organized Crime Reaches Far and Is Growing One of FinCEN's first priorities for AML/CFT policy is to combat transnational organized crime (TOC). The FBI explains TOC groups are “self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate, wholly or in part, by illegal means and irrespective of geography.”

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Dunkleberg is the former dean of Temple’s School of Business and Management and has served as the Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business since 1971. These insights have the potential to inform the market and policy makers on the overall health of the economy, opportunities, and risk.”. Learn More.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2024

What’s more, FinCEN included fraud in its eight anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) national priorities in 2021, explicitly linking fraud detection and prevention to AML/CFT responsibilities for the first time. However, AML investigators identify many fraudulent transactions and patterns.

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