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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A shocking new report reveals an underworld of corruption in the world’s banks and how governments allow it to thrive, BuzzFeed News reported. The report found the illegal profits from the drug trade, cash stolen from developing countries and Ponzi schemes flow through financial institutions despite warnings from bank employees.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As government regulators in China increase tech industry oversight, Tencent said it will comply with new laws intended to curb antitrust activities and tighten FinTech acceleration, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday (Nov. The regulators are looking more closely at transaction-based platforms, Lau said, per Bloomberg.

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APRIL 9, 2020

million ransom to get their systems back online, The Wall Street Journal reported. A Travelex spokesman told the WSJ that the firm got advice from security experts on how to proceed, and have kept its investors and regulators up to date on the recovery.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

21) by a French regulator, in what the Wall Street Journal reported is the largest penalty under the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law. It’s also one of the highest-profile regulator actions coming from GDPR which went into effect last year.

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APRIL 2, 2021

The five federal agencies are: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Cybersecurity.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

As it aims to bolster methods of market exit and risk disposal for institutions that loan money, the central bank of China introduced a draft of updates to legislation applicable to commercial banks, Reuters reported. Runs on small financial institutions (FIs) in China have been on the uptick as of last 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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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The shift could possibly cause payments to move underground and particularly impact nations that are dependent on remittances, Reuters reported. But the checks by banks help to quell these kinds of violations, so the situation has caused frustration for regulators. 16) that the practice still fell in popularity in 2017.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to affect every aspect of the world economy and play a significant role in the global financial system, leading financial regulators around the world to take various steps to address the impact of AI on their areas of responsibility.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Policy advisers at a leading think tank said that China should introduce a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence in the finance sector, according to a report from Reuters on Sunday (Dec 22). The risk and safety lines with AI in China in the finance sector appear to be blurring.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Regulation. EU Gears Up To Propose New Big Tech Regulations. The European Commission will soon put forward a “revolutionary” revamp of digital rules that could negatively impact Big Tech’s business models, CNBC reported, citing experts. Australian Regulator Looks Into Merger Law Changes.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

has sought a national bank charter from the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), which will let it meet “promises of efficiency, affordability and financial inclusion,” according to a Friday (Nov. Financial services firm Figure Technologies, Inc. 6) announcement.

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JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

A 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR) from Cisco found companies that suffer a data breach could have customer, opportunity and revenue losses exceeding 20 percent. Ackerman added that a number of states will adopt some version of Europe’s strict General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ). According to Robert Ackerman, Jr.,

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JULY 31, 2020

On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, you’re the CEO of a national banking corporation or a national savings bank. Therefore, your primary federal bank regulator is the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC conducts frequent on-site examinations as they investigate, prepare, and then issue its reports of examination.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Bank regulators have rolled back the Jan. 1 accounting standard known as “current expected credit loss” (CECL) in an effort to bolster loans in the wake of the coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (March 27). National bank regulators — The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Members of Perficient’s Digital Asset Team have advised followers in multiple online articles about the digital asset revolution and relevant regulations affecting the same in the United States. Highlights From Federal Bank Regulators’ Joint Statement on Cryptocurrency Assets – Perficient Blogs. Drink in the hand?

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MARCH 5, 2020

In a new digital real estate game called Upland, players can buy virtual versions of properties in San Francisco, Cointelegraph reported. And, according to the report, Cryptovoxels calls itself a “virtual world powered by the Ethereum blockchain” that is owned by users. And, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the U.K.

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MAY 24, 2021

We are pleased to announce that Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group has once again received the highest national ranking from Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. This year, Chambers USA added Enforcement & Investigations as a new category for Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Russia’s Ministry of Labor has banned federal and local governmental officials — and their spouses and underage children — from holding digital currencies, CoinDesk reported. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus is reportedly intending to support a legal initiative that would allow them to seize digital currency from criminals, Cointelegraph reported. The legislator is introducing the bill alone sans co-sponsor, per the report.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators around the world. EU Auditors: European Commission Needs To ‘Scale Up’ Regulation. New Digital Regulations Could Let EU Ban Tech Firms. 34 States Unveil $113M Settlement Against Apple For Alleged iPhone ‘Throttling’ .

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JANUARY 18, 2022

18) that it plans to regulate cryptocurrency advertising like other financial products and ensure that promotions are “fair, clear and not misleading,” according to a Bloomberg report. That includes the crypto billboards that have recently been spotted along the London subway system, the report says. Treasury said Tuesday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A study from the Cifas National Fraud Database found that identity theft against consumers over the age of 61 rose by 22 percent in 2019, contributing to an 18 percent increase in identity theft overall. British banks spend upward of £6.7 billion ($8.9 For more on these and other financial crime news items, download this month’s Playbook.

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JULY 22, 2020

The governmental body said that thrifts, along with state and national banks, have a lengthy history of offering custody and safekeeping for digital assets as well as tangible property. In other news, South Korea intends to levy a two-tenths tax on income made via digital currency transactions, The Block reported. 1 of next year.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton thinks inefficiencies in traditional payments are boosting favorability for bitcoin, a report from Coindesk says. Those inefficiencies are the things that are driving the rise of bitcoin," he said, according to the report.

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APRIL 1, 2020

This legislation represents a significant breakthrough – the first time a state or nation has passed a new law devoted exclusively to putting guardrails in place for the use of facial recognition technology,” Smith said in the post. Many states don’t have any laws regulating the use of facial recognition technology.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The head of the country’s only licensed and publicly traded cryptocurrency broker says tighter regulation and exponentially higher yields are causing corporate treasury and cash management accounts to seriously consider this alternative asset class. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. This in the wake of the OCC’s Sept. The Pandemic Pop.

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JULY 24, 2020

The July Payments Powering the Platform Economy Report examines how international eCommerce platforms work to create transaction experiences that are compelling and secure for users in each market they serve. Find more about these stories and the rest of the latest headlines in the Report. Get the full story in the Report.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

The EBF represents the vast majority of the European banking sector through its membership, spanning 32 national banking associations from across Europe, which in turn encompass more than 3,500 banks.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The central bank and several other commercial banks collaborated on a cross-border bank account offering that Pakistanis overseas can use to store rupees and foreign currencies as well as to pay bills and make other transactions in the nation.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed , documents submitted by banks to the U.S. The documents, officially known as suspicious activity reports (SARs for short) show that the banks had filed more than 2,000 reports across the past 17 years. In one example, reported on Monday (Sept. billion in fines.

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JUNE 8, 2020

United Nations global blockchain expert Massimo Buonomo has foreseen a future where digital currencies could replace low-interest bank accounts, Coindesk reports. He said the regulators would need to have total control over a cryptocurrency-fueled system that replaced traditional banking.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) provided the firm with permission to put WhatsApp Pay into operation in a phased manner, The Business Standard reported. . According to the report, the phased WhatsApp launch is connected to its expansive user base.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The People’s Republic of China will likely re-legalize cryptocurrency trading, ending its nation-wide ban on crypto exchanges from early September, as reported by cnLedger, a well-known source on cryptocurrency news in China.

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