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April 17, 2020 |
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Compliance professionals are uniquely positioned to educate older Americans about the growing number of scams surrounding the pandemic.
Risk and Compliance News
In a final rule issued today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau raised the reporting thresholds for banks reporting data under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council today released long-awaited updates to its Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering examination manual.
Temporary adjustments to "know your customer" and anti-money laundering requirements are "key" to speeding up the rate at which banks are able to provide much-needed relief to small businesses through the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols said in a letter to Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Angus King (Ind.-Maine).
To help facilitate the timely, efficient and secure disbursement of the Treasury Department’s economic impact payments, the CFPB issued an interpretive rule—which takes effect upon publication in the Federal Register—stating that, if certain conditions are met, certain government pandemic relief payments are not considered "government benefits" for the purposes of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Regulation E.
As banks seek to contact customers with COVID-19-related information, the ABA asked the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to provide immediate relief confirming that financial institutions’ COVID-19-related calls are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s requirements.
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