- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2024-10-23T15:45:00
Banks, credit card companies and other financial mainstays will be required to comply with new data privacy and retail account portability regulations under a sweeping rule issued Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The Personal Financial Data Rights rule is designed to modernize the U.S. consumer financial system and increase competition, by expanding banking and payment options for the public while adding better data privacy protections, the CFPB said.
In short, the new rule, on the drawing board since 2010 and the aftermath of the financial crisis, will bring U.S. banking and financial services and protections in line with those already required in other nations.
2024-11-04T20:09:00Z By Adrianne Appel
VyStar credit union has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine and make restitution to customers harmed by its alleged lack of due diligence when it launched a new banking platform, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
2024-10-25T13:55:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Businesses need to follow the consumer protection rules of the Fair Credit Reporting Act when engaging in employee surveillance, which includes background reports about employees produced by third parties using artificial intelligence, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in new guidance.
2024-09-13T13:09:00Z By Adrianne Appel
TD Bank has been ordered to pay $27.7 million and implement compliance measures, for providing inaccurate, negative credit information to credit agencies about tens of thousands of its customers and taking too long to fix the errors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
2025-06-26T20:22:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In another sign of President Donald Trump’s focus on cryptocurrency, the head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create proposals to consider crypto assets for a single-family home mortgage.
2025-06-24T17:21:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Four years after Brexit, the U.K. and EU announced a “reset” that will ease barriers to importing and exporting food, drink, and agricultural produce. It may also harmonize rules around carbon emissions trading systems, simplifying compliance for multinational organizations that are large emitters, and enable more young people to gain ...
2025-06-20T14:20:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
The U.S. Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty as commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, marking a shift in agency staffing that gave commissioners nominated by President Donald Trump a majority of decision-making power. The move followed resignations of two commissioners earlier this month, each of whom had been nominated ...
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