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The fatal flaws in the 2023 CRA rule
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Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2025, The Tribute to Pope Francis Edition
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The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
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In March 2025, a Northern District of Texas judge denied the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) motion to stay its case against Comerica Bank for alleged mismanagement of a government benefit card program in...more
On August 15, 2024, the Illinois Bankers Association, American Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions, and Illinois Credit Union League filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Illinois...more
On December 13, 2023, the Congressional Research Service issued a report titled How the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 Could Affect Consumers, Merchants, and Banks highlighting potential issues for Congress....more
FTC Amends Safeguards Rule to Require Non-Banking Financial Institutions to Report Data Security Breaches - “Amendment will require non-bank financial institutions to report when they discover that information affecting...more
The Federal Reserve Board has proposed a new rule for public comment that would significantly lower the cap on interchange fees that debit card issuing banks (issuers) may charge a merchant’s bank (an acquiring bank) for...more
On October 16, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) published a notice of an Open Board Meeting to take place on October 25. The only matter under consideration at that meeting will be the Fed’s proposed revisions to the debit...more
This survey summarizes several recent developments affecting bank deposits and payment systems. The U.S. department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued new guidance concerning the customer...more
According to a confidential FBI alert reported upon by Krebs on Security last Friday, the FBI issued an alert to banks concerning what is called an Unlimited ATM Cashout, attacks of which are expected in the near future....more
On August 10, 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a private warning to banks warning them that cybercriminals are planning to “conduct a global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cash-out scheme in the coming...more
Bankinfosecurity.com report that “Fraudsters are now gingerly testing the waters in central and Western Europe with attacks that drain cash machines of their funds, according to a trade group that studies criminal activity...more
Earlier this summer, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released its highly anticipated Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (Assessment), which is designed to assist financial institutions in identifying...more
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing MasterCard, Visa and three major banks of illegally fixing ATM prices to the detriment of consumers. A federal district judge had thrown out the lawsuit in 2013 after...more
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, NJ has announced that Marius Ventila, a Romanian native, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and to pay $7.5 million in restitution for his part in a credit card skimming scam that used...more
The CFPB recently announced that it has developed “the Newcomer’s Guides to Managing Money to provide recent immigrants with straightforward information about basic money decisions.” According to the CFPB, each guide...more
Preventing the unauthorized access to and fraudulent use of credit and debit cards has been a high priority of the payment card industry for years. As the threat environment evolves, so too do the applicable data security...more