ABI Blog Exchange

2018-01-05
The Dodd-Frank Act gets more attention when it comes to regulatory burden, but the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-laundering statutes arguably present even more of a compliance challenge for bankers.

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2018-01-05
Dueling blockchain stories — one arguing it was virtually useless, the other saying it could change real estate lending — seized the top spots this week, while readers also focused on tax reform aftermath and a key Senate retirement.

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2018-01-05
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints dropped last year for most of the big banks, including Wells Fargo, though they rose sharply at Capital One.

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2018-01-05
Banks have been in full cost-cutting mode in recent years, but with profits expected to increase substantially as a result of tax reform, all analysts and investors want to know is how they plan to spend their tax savings.

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2018-01-05
Kirsten Sutton Mork, the House Financial Services Committee's staff director, will become chief of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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2018-01-05
Rather than jump right away into lending to car buyers, Access National will start by offering CRE and M&A financing to dealerships.

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2018-01-05
The proposal lays out principles in three critical areas: the effectiveness of senior management, handling of the firm’s business line and the independent risk management structures within a banking organization.

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2018-01-05
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has called for an investigation into how CFPB Deputy Director Leandra English was approved for a permanent civil service job at the agency.

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2018-01-05
Overstock CEO and Wall Street gadfly Patrick Byrne wants to create a market free from trading practices he has long decried.

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2018-01-05
Several women are viewed as possible successors for a retiring William Dudley. Pam Codispoti has plans to up the millennial appeal of Chase’s 5,200 branches. What’s hot in fintech for 2018? Plus, the year of #MeToo in review.

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2018-01-05
SunTrust and First Republic are taking benefits they offer to their workers, such as financial wellness training and student debt repayment, and extending them to corporate clients as benefits they can offer to their own employees.

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2018-01-05
Twenty-two trade groups, including seven financial trade groups, sent a letter to House lawmakers calling for new data security standards that would preempt state law.

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2018-01-05
The company will also record a charge tied to the impairmant of its deferred-tax asset.

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2018-01-05
Readers react to President Trump considering a credit union regulator to head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, debate a delay for top banking nominees, opine on the value of blockchain, and more.

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2018-01-05
The Trump administration should not name J.

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2018-01-05
Mark Weidemaier & Mitu Gulati

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