All Financial Services articles – Page 11
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CFPB eyes open banking with financial data rights rule proposal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving forward its plan to give consumers more control over their personal financial data as part of a new rule proposal.
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FinCEN rule proposal labels CVC mixing a primary money laundering concern
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network might require financial institutions to implement new recordkeeping and reporting requirements regarding convertible virtual currency mixing under a proposed rule.
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Q&A: Bangladeshi compliance AVP on future of AML, leadership strategies
Rezaul Karim, assistant vice president, risk and compliance at HSBC Bangladesh, discusses with Compliance Week recent changes in KYC/AML compliance, how new technology is shaping the banking industry, and strategies for building and leading effective AML teams.
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CPE Webcast: Key priorities for CROs in banking and financial services
Regulatory focus on operational resilience is highlighting the need for decisive, coordinated responses to new threats that are executed quickly across the organization.
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CFTC vows increased penalties for deterrence, repeat offenders
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will consider increasing its enforcement penalties in certain cases to deter future violations of commodities law and punish repeat offenders.
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Humans vs. machines, it all comes back to data
A panel of experts discussed trending topics in the compliance space, including the debate over whether humans or machines will lead future efforts to fight financial crime, during the opening keynote at Compliance Week’s Europe conference in London.
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UAE joins pact with U.S. on cybersecurity cooperation
The United States and United Arab Emirates finalized an agreement to work together to safeguard the financial sector from cyberattacks.
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Cybersecurity, AML risks among SEC 2024 exam priorities
SEC examiners will be asking tough questions of registered firms regarding how they handle risks related to operational security, interact with financial technology companies and crypto assets, and the maturity of their anti-money laundering programs.
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SEC adopts Dodd-Frank rule for short sale transparency
The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its push to get across the finish line the remaining provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act with the adoption of a new rule for institutional investment managers to provide greater transparency regarding short sale data.
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FCA fines Equifax’s U.K. unit $13.3M over 2017 data breach
The Financial Conduct Authority fined Equifax’s U.K. unit more than £11 million (U.S. $13.3 million) regarding the company’s 2017 data breach that affected approximately 13.8 million U.K. consumers.
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EOS Matrix battles back against Croatian DPA in $5.8M GDPR case
Debt collector EOS Matrix said it will challenge a General Data Protection Regulation penalty levied against it by the Croatian data protection authority after finding the data in question in the case does not match the data in its database.
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TransUnion settles with CFPB, FTC over tenant screening accuracy
Credit reporting agency TransUnion agreed to pay $23 million total across settlements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission for alleged tenant screening and security freeze deficiencies.
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FCA fines, bans ex-Barclays CEO Staley over misrepresented Epstein ties
Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley was fined £1.8 million (U.S. $2.2 million) and banned from serving in a senior management role in the financial services industry by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority for allegedly misleading the regulator regarding his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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CFTC commissioner blasts Goldman’s ‘culture of noncompliance’
After four enforcement cases against Goldman Sachs in 18 months, CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero accused the firm of perpetuating a corporate culture that tolerates repeated violations of the agency’s rules.
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FCA censures London Capital & Finance over misleading promos
Insolvent credit broker London Capital & Finance dodged a “substantial financial penalty” from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority regarding promotions it used to market minibonds to investors.
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Wilmington Trust to pay $1.3M over fiduciary duty lapses
Wilmington Trust Investment Management agreed to pay more than $1.3 million to settle charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission it failed to disclose conflicts of interest and breached its fiduciary duty to clients.
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U.K. financial regs pressure firms to step up D&I considerations
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority set out proposals to ensure firms treat nonfinancial misconduct, such as bullying, racist behavior, and sexual harassment, as strictly as other regulatory offenses.
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HSBC unit fined $2M by FINRA over long-running disclosure lapses
HSBC Securities (USA) agreed to pay $2 million as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority addressing alleged inaccurate disclosures related to conflicts of interest.
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OCC examiners to focus 2024 attention on risks that led to bank failures
Bank examiners from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are focusing their supervision attention on how banks manage risks that brought down three mid-sized financial institutions earlier this year.
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Shinhan Bank enforcements a lesson in not prioritizing compliance
The recent $25 million in combined penalties levied against South Korean-based Shinhan Bank by three U.S. regulators was the culmination of the bank’s failure over an eight-year period to timely correct deficiencies with its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act processes.