Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Should Congress Create a New Federal Charter for Non-Bank Payments Companies?
Fintech Focus Podcast | Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Exploring AI's Potential in Financial Services With John Sun of SpringLabs — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Navigating Regulatory Waters: Recent Enforcement Actions in BaaS — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Have State-Chartered, FDIC-Insured Banks Finally Achieved Interstate Usury Parity with National Banks?
Fintech Focus Podcast | The UK Fintech Investment Landscape
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Regulators Escalate Focus on the Risks of Bank Relationships with Fintechs and Other Third Parties
2024 State Legislative Review: Key Payment Laws and Their Impacts — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
First Republic Executives Fail in Attempt to Recover Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan Assets
The Future of Bank-Fintech Partnerships and Banking as a Service — The Consumer Finance Podcast
In That Case: Cantero v. Bank of America
Navigating Bank-Fintech Partnerships: Avoiding Common Pitfalls — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Revisiting Financial Institution Incentive Compensation Rules Under Dodd-Frank — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Redlining Complications Caused by Implementation of 2020 Census Tracts
U.S. District Court Addresses Federal Preemption for State Credit Reporting Laws
How to estimate how your performance will look under the new CRA
Instant Decline, Instant Relief? Unpacking the CFPB's Proposed Rule on NSF Fees — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Fintech Focus Podcast | Are Regulators Dictating Fintech Deal Terms?
The Coming Perfect Storm
Das Europäische Parlament hat am 24. April 2024 ein neues Gesetzespaket zur Geldwäschebekämpfung verabschiedet, welches das Instrumentarium der EU zur Bekämpfung von Geldwäsche und Terrorismusfinanzierung stärken soll....more
Hosted by the Canadian Institute, the 23rd Annual Canadian Forum on Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime returns for another exciting year. The event features carefully curated programming providing practical guidance...more
ACI’s 8th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems will provide in-depth guidance on the latest regulatory developments at the Federal and State Level that you need to be aware of....more
The 24th National Forum on Prepaid Accounts Compliance will address the latest developments impacting the prepaid industry and provide answers to the most pressing questions and challenges being faced by practitioners in this...more
Don’t miss the opportunity to gain valuable insights from industry experts at Canadian Institute’s Annual Flagship Conference on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions. This event will equip you with strategies to...more
Shinhan Bank America (“Shinhan”), a New York-based subsidiary of a Korean bank, faced coordinated enforcement actions on September 29 from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), Federal Deposit Insurance...more
On 07 June 2023, K2 Integrity hosted a webinar on the state of cryptocurrency and digital assets in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. A discussion was held with Bryan Stirewalt, senior managing director at K2...more
AML compliance for reporting entities has never been of greater critical importance than it is today. With the growing sophistication of criminals and the methods and technologies that they employed, combined with the...more
For all of its upheaval, cryptocurrency seems like it is here to stay. This presents virtual currency businesses and institutional bankers with a dilemma: Do they capitalize on the increasingly powerful trend, or do they wait...more
On August 2, 2022, New York State’s Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) announced that Robinhood Crypto, LLC (“RHC”), a trading platform that allows customers to transact in cryptocurrencies, had agreed to pay a $30...more
Welcome to Wilson Sonsini’s Focus on Fintech quarterly newsletter. This quarterly newsletter provides ongoing analysis and commentary on regulatory developments impacting the fintech industry....more
Israel’s financial regulatory authorities are regulating virtual currencies (cryptographic currencies) due to their steady increase in use. For example, the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority (CMISA) issued an...more
Welcome to Banking Bites! This is our short summary flagging key developments in the UK that we hope will inform your activities in your market. This edition covers...more
Questions of which, if any, regulatory regimes apply to the variety of participants in the cryptocurrency market continue to dog the industry. On February 28, 2022, whether a cryptocurrency futures trading platform...more
The Bank of Israel is proposing to regulate the provision of services to licensed cryptocurrency service providers (i.e., exchange platforms). The purpose of the proposal is to ensure banks are not able to sweepingly refuse...more
In January of 2021, the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) went into effect, marking the most significant changes to federal anti-money laundering laws since the USA Patriot Act of 2001. The AMLA represents an attempt...more
The Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, and OCC (collectively, the “Agencies”) issued on November 23 a short Joint Statement on Crypto-Asset Policy Sprint Initiative and Next Steps (“Joint Statement”), which announced – without...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: HM Treasury responds to Payments Landscape Review call for evidence Hong Kong: HKMA publishes white paper exploring the idea of a CBDC Italy: Bank of...more
The Department of Justice is aggressively scrutinizing participants in the cryptocurrency markets—including “financial institutions working with cryptocurrency”—to thwart the use of the technology as a vehicle for money...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has completed two of its early benchmark obligations arising out of the recently passed Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (the “AML Act”)... First, pursuant to the AML Act,...more
After the attacks on JBS and Colonial Pipeline, the U.S. Treasury Department will likely consider increasing its enforcement of anti-money-laundering laws and adopt new reporting requirements for cryptocurrency transactions....more
As spring turns to summer, climate change is on our minds. A new day, a new story about how financial institutions are addressing climate-related risks. In the past few months, six major banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan...more
Every day, the mainstream media and social media are filled with references to cryptocurrency. Depending on who you ask, it’s either simply the next way to spend your money, or it’s a haven for criminal activity. In this...more
In this Issue. In one of its first acts after being installed on January 20, the Biden Administration issued a regulatory freeze on new agency rules that have been adopted but are not yet effective; in one of its final acts...more
Throughout 2020, cryptocurrencies experienced incremental progress towards the mainstream as institutional investors and financial institutions made positive statements about the nascent asset class, an increasing number of...more