- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Jeff Dale2023-03-31T16:49:00
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) established its Office of Financial Technology on Thursday to supervise the fintech industry as it grows at a “rapid pace,” the agency said.
The new office, announced in October, is a further expansion upon the OCC’s Office of Innovation and will heighten the agency’s focus on its “agility in providing high-quality supervision of bank-fintech partnerships,” according to a press release.
Additionally, the office will enhance the OCC’s expertise on matters regarding digital assets, fintech partnerships, and “other changing technologies and business models within and that affect OCC-supervised banks,” the agency said.
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2024-07-01T15:44:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
During a panel at Compliance Week’s Financial Crimes and Regulatory Compliance Summit, held June 10-11 in New York, experts discussed nuances in bank-financial technology partnerships, offering best practices for how banks should protect themselves.
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As financial institutions mull potential growth opportunities with digital asset and artificial intelligence tools, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu warned against leaving risk and compliance teams out of the loop.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reminded public companies and financial institutions, respectively, of their responsibilities to properly manage risks related to the crypto asset market.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged cryptocurrency company Unicoin, three top executives, and its general counsel with defrauding investors of $110 million by selling them bogus “rights certificates” in a future cryptocurrency coin.
2025-05-21T14:11:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins indicated he favors changing the agency’s requirement that only the wealthy can invest in so-called “closed-end” private equity funds and hedge funds.
2025-05-19T14:33:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has shuttered a special Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unit that focused on public corruption and whose legwork led to the special counsel investigation of President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election results.
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