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CFPB director wants some payments firms labeled systemically important
The bureau's chief, Rohit Chopra, urged users who maintain balances on their digital wallets and money-transfer apps to move that uninsured money to a bank account.
By Anna Hrushka • April 12, 2023 -
Goldman Sachs fined $15M by CFTC in swaps case
The bank failed to disclose the same-day value of pre-trade-mid-market marks in dozens of swaps in 2015 and 2016, when it knew it could make a quick profit, the CFTC said.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • April 11, 2023 -
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Fraud and AML in banking
The past year has been one of reckoning with regard to fraud — from TD’s $3 billion AML penalty to the continuing punitive phase connected to PPP misdeeds, crypto bankruptcies and pig butchering.
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Warren, AOC question Circle, BlockFi over SVB ties
The lawmakers wrote 14 depositors, asking whether “mutual backscratching arrangements” encouraged firms to keep large uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.
By Anna Hrushka • April 11, 2023 -
OCC to audit JPMorgan’s dealmaking: sources
The audit was scheduled before JPMorgan sued the founder of Frank, a fintech it bought. The Justice Department charged the fintech exec with fraud, a development that has raised questions around due diligence.
By Dan Ennis • April 7, 2023 -
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Merrill Lynch stampedes back into the collective consciousness
A leadership change, a delayed retirement and an SEC penalty put Bank of America's long-since-acquired thundering herd front and center several times in less than a week.
By Dan Ennis • April 6, 2023 -
Swiss council orders bonus cuts for 1,000 Credit Suisse execs
The tiered cuts in the bank’s top three management levels are worth up to $66 million, said the federal council, which also directed Credit Suisse to retrieve bonuses that have already been paid.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • April 6, 2023 -
UBS embarks on ‘Herculean’ Credit Suisse integration
Enmeshing the two banks is expected to take roughly three to four years, UBS executives said at a shareholder meeting two weeks after agreeing to take over its chief rival.
By Dan Ennis • April 5, 2023 -
Dimon warns against reactionary regulations
The banking industry must avoid "knee-jerk, whack-a-mole or politically motivated responses" to the current financial crisis, JPMorgan's CEO said in a letter to shareholders Tuesday.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • April 4, 2023 -
Credit Suisse chair, CEO apologize at shareholder meeting
"We ran out of time," the bank's CEO, Ulrich Körner, told attendees. Axel Lehmann, meanwhile, was narrowly re-elected chair, but some investors continued to blame the bank and the Swiss government.
By Dan Ennis • April 4, 2023 -
CFPB issues updated policy statement on abusive practices
The guidance did not impose any new legal requirements but outlined the background, objectives and analysis of the abusive practices that would ensure fair dealings in the market.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • April 4, 2023 -
Dutch neobank Bunq applies for US bank license
Bunq CEO Ali Niknam said the neobank is expanding to the U.S. to serve European expatriates “with strong ties to both sides of the Atlantic.”
By Anna Hrushka • April 4, 2023 -
Swiss prosecutor opens probe into UBS-Credit Suisse deal
The investigation comes amid reports that the tie-up could spur a cull of 11,000 jobs in Switzerland alone and another 25,000 globally.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • April 3, 2023 -
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Barr, Gruenberg testimony brings slogans, tone shifts and policy talk
Among other things, House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-NC, is making a habit of telling the public what Congress can't do.
By Dan Ennis • March 31, 2023 -
CFPB finalizes small-business data collection rule
The final rule covers financial institutions that issue at least 100 small-business loans a year — up from 25 loans per year proposed in 2021.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • March 31, 2023 -
Wells Fargo to pay $97.8M in sanctions penalties
While the Office of Foreign Assets Control called the bank’s deficient oversight resulting in violations "egregious," it said it was "not a result of a systemic compliance breakdown."
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • March 31, 2023 -
Biden eyes stiffer liquidity rules, stress testing for midsize banks
The White House also seeks to require firms with between $100 billion and $250 billion to give regulators comprehensive resolution plans, or living wills.
By Anna Hrushka • March 30, 2023 -
Yellen takes aim at deregulation
Banks were a “pillar of strength” for the financial system at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the treasury secretary said, but the failures of Signature and Silicon Valley Bank “demonstrate that our business is unfinished.”
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • March 30, 2023 -
Massachusetts regulators probe Citizens Financial unit
The Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office is investigating the sale of annuities controlled by indicted financier Greg Lindberg. A total of $2.2 billion in customer funds has been frozen since 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported.
By Anna Hrushka • March 30, 2023 -
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to be deposed in Epstein case
The under-oath interview is expected in early May, a source told Reuters. Lawyers for the bank argued it should take place after the deposition of JPMorgan's ex-private-banking chief, Jes Staley.
By Dan Ennis • March 29, 2023 -
Barr, Gruenberg face Senate panel over SVB, Signature failures
“It is not the job of [Fed] supervisors to fix the issues identified,” Barr said Tuesday. “It is the job of the bank's senior management and board of directors to fix its problems.”
By Dan Ennis • March 28, 2023 -
CFTC sues Binance over compliance ‘evasion’
The crypto exchange said it would restrict U.S. customers from certain trading but communicated with users on an app set to automatically delete messages, the CFTC alleged.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • March 28, 2023 -
FDIC orders neobank Utoppia to stop making claims of deposit insurance
As of January, the fintech’s website claimed Utoppia was “insured by the FDIC,” according to the regulator. The FDIC also said Utoppia’s CFO made false claims of deposit insurance on LinkedIn.
By Anna Hrushka • March 28, 2023 -
Credit Suisse could face disciplinary action: Finma
Additionally, the chairman of Credit Suisse's largest shareholder resigned after his comments may have played into a run that doomed the bank.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • March 27, 2023 -
Fed could have rejected Custodia’s application 3 times, it says
The central bank blasted Custodia’s decision to accept only uninsured deposits, as well as its lack of diversification, in a scathing 86-page order Friday.
By Anna Hrushka • March 27, 2023 -
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Bank crisis puts deposit insurance, Fed IG in focus but leaves cannabis out
Lawmakers are shuffling priorities in the wake of Signature and Silicon Valley Bank failures. In a surprise turn, the overdraft fight even gets a callback.
By Dan Ennis • March 24, 2023