Consumer Protection and Safety and Soundness Perspective of Credit Union Regulation - The Consumer Finance Podcast
On June 28, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced long-anticipated proposed rules on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism program effectiveness;...more
El 6/29/24, FinCEN, en consulta con la Junta de Gobernadores del Sistema de la Reserva Federal, la Oficina del Contralor de la Moneda, la Corporación Federal de Seguro de Depósitos y la Administración Nacional de Cooperativas...more
On 6/29/24, FinCEN, in consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit Union...more
On January 12, South Dakota’s Division of Banking issued a mandate setting March 31, 2024 as the deadline for all South Dakota licensed money lenders and non-residential mortgage brokers to comply with their Bank Secrecy...more
Today, nearly four-fifths of the United States have regulated medical marijuana markets. Nearly half of the United States, consisting of twenty-one states along with Washington, D.C. and Guam, have acted to legalize...more
January 18, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order that identifies the virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Limited (Bitzlato) as a "primary money laundering...more
Federal Financial Regulators Seek Information on the Use of AI by Financial Institutions - On March 29, 2021, five federal financial regulatory agencies (the Federal Reserve, CFPB, FDIC, OCC, and NCUA) announced a request...more
The Agencies issued a joint Fact Sheet that lists considerations for a risk-based approach when it comes to charities and nonprofits. While the Fact Sheet purports to not impose additional obligations on banks, it is hard to...more
FinCEN issues implementing regulations that “ensure” compliance with the BSA. FinCEN delegates its examination authority to federal agencies. These federal agencies are the “Federal Functional Regulators” who supervise...more
On December 3, 2019, in a rare public statement regarding the provision of banking services to cannabis- or hemp-related businesses, the Federal Banking Agencies, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...more
Following last year’s passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) issued a regulatory update in August of 2019 to federally insured credit unions. Citing growth in hemp-related commerce,...more
On August 20, 2019, the National Credit Union Administration issued a regulatory alert to all federally insured credit unions providing "interim guidance" regarding the service of hemp businesses by credit unions. The alert,...more
On August 19, 2019, the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”) released Interim Guidance on Serving Hemp Businesses to federally insured credit unions on the developing federal law and regulation related to the hemp...more
Last month the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the federal bank regulators issued a Joint Statement aimed at improving transparency into their risk-focused examination and supervision of banks’ compliance...more
Credit Unions Provided a Grace Period to Comply With New Customer Due Diligence Requirements - In May of 2018, the new Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions (the “CDD Rule”) from the Financial Crimes...more
Barclays and Wachovia Settle with NCUA - On October 19, 2015, Barclays PLC and Wachovia Capital Markets LLC agreed to pay $325 million and $53 million, respectively, to settle claims brought by the National Credit Union...more
Why it matters - One Colorado credit union is taking matters into its own hands after the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (FRB-KC) and the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) rejected the institution's...more
Domestic Developments - Florida. Anthony Murgio and Yuri Lebedev, operators of bitcoin exchange service Coin.mx were arrested on July 21, 2015 for operating the exchange without a money transmission license. The U.S....more