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Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency Disclosed A Data Breach

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) disclosed it was hacked in September, reported The Wall Street Journal last week. which has prompted lawmakers to spend part of 2016 looking into shortfalls in FDIC cybersecurity policies. The incident occurred in Nov.

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AmEx Faces Fed Inquiry On Business Card Sales Tactics

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FDIC) and the Treasury Department are looking to see if American Express Co. The paper reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking into business card sales tactics at the company as well, citing unnamed sources. Officials at the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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How regulators besides the OCC can help fintechs

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has gotten the ball rolling for financial technology firms trying to operate a national platform, but the FDIC and Federal Reserve should act to remove other policy roadblocks.

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US agencies provide advice for combatting elder financial exploitation

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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and state financial regulators issued a joint statement this (..)

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Join This Exclusive Gathering of Global Industry Experts at the 15th Nextgen Payments & Regtech Forum

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Over 50 industry specialists will take the stage at the 15th Nextgen Payments & Regtech Forum in Austin, covering the latest topics and representing leading organisations such as FDIC, FTA, Payall Payment Systems, Inc., Dow Jones, SEON, PayPal, Ripple, Citibank, Wise, Binance.US, Amazon, eBay, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley, BNY Mellon, J.P.

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Banks Push Back On Possible Banking Charters For Big Techs Like Amazon And Facebook

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The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. FDIC), the states and the courts. This isn’t the OCC’s first attempt to create a special banking charter that would benefit tech firms.

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US Eases New Banking Rule On Reporting Bad Loans

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and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — are all on board with using the “new methodology for measuring counterparty credit risk in derivatives transactions.”. National bank regulators — The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.