Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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Fifteen million Americans who owe a combined $49 billion in medical debt would benefit from a proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scrub medical debts from credit reports and ban their use in underwriting decisions.
June 11 -
The pairing of these rule sets can multiply the layers of compliance to vet when adopting new technology. Here's how experts suggest approaching this challenge.
June 11 -
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu Thursday said AI providers and end-users — including banks — should share responsibility for errors that derive from artificial intelligence models.
June 6 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule pursuant to its broader open banking proposal Wednesday that would require standard-setting bodies to include public interest consumer groups and others to receive bureau recognition.
June 5 -
On top of cratering origination figures, the company faces lawsuits from counterparties over nonpayment.
June 4 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a new circular that it's still watching for attempts to get borrowers to sign away rights that can't be waived.
June 4 -
The changes that affect how buyer broker commissions are paid go into effect on Aug. 17, but there's much uncertainty about carrying them out, said Ryan Tomasello of KBW.
June 3 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Monday completed its rule establishing a nationwide database for a wide swath of financial companies — including payments companies, debt collectors, auto lenders — that have faced regulatory or legal penalties for consumer-related infractions.
June 3 -
The announcement comes after weeks of criticism from the bureau's director over fees including title insurance and credit scores.
May 30 -
The Supreme Court decided to rule narrowly in Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A., sending the case back to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit with instructions to perform a more nuanced analysis on whether a New York escrow law unfairly discriminates against national banks.
May 30 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Quarterly Banking Profile for Q1 showed that banks' net income margins got a boost, but FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg said concerns around inflation, interest rate volatility and geopolitical uncertainty could mean tougher quarters ahead.
May 29 -
Beth Hammack, who stepped down as the bank's co-head of global finance earlier this year, will take the helm as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland later this summer following the retirement of longtime President Loretta Mester.
May 29 -
If approved by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the program will not lead to large amounts of home equity being extracted, nor is it mission creep, wrote Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst Bose George.
May 28 -
A pair of recently created consulting firms seek to shift lender thinking to make compliance a front-of-mind target, not merely a cost center.
May 26 -
House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg to make himself available for a June 12 hearing on the agency's workplace culture.
May 23 -
Companies are seeing evidence of income falsification, which previous research shows is the most common type of fraud or defect risk.
May 23 -
All lenders experiencing system breaches must report the incidents within 12 hours of detection, the administration announced.
May 23 -
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.
May 20 -
Originators misled VA refinance applicants into believing they could skip two months of mortgage payments, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.
May 20 -
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Friday that the agency will be moving forward with rules and enforcement actions after the defeat of a Supreme Court challenge to the agency's constitutionality.
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