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    How fintechs can overcome major compliance hurdles in embedded finance

    2024-07-01T15:45:00Z

    Margaret Holmes Tibbets, chief compliance officer at financial technology company Pipe, explains how firms are facing an existential compliance crisis, and to survive they’ll need to overcome not one but two hurdles. 

  • OCC
    News Brief

    OCC emphasizes compliance’s role in FI’s operational resiliency

    2024-06-20T15:40:00Z

    Compliance departments at financial institutions must become more involved in ensuring their firm’s operational resiliency to address emerging risks, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said in its semi-annual risk perspective.

  • SEC
    Article

    SEC 2022 exam priorities stress compliance ‘must be empowered’

    2022-03-31T18:46:00Z

    The Securities and Exchange Commission released its 2022 examination priorities, providing investment firms, broker-dealers, and other registrants a breakdown of what issues the Division of Examinations will focus on this year.

  • Blog

    CFTC Commissioner: Regulators should ‘do no harm’ to blockchain

    2016-03-31T14:15:00Z

    As regulators address the use of blockchain technology by financial institutions, three words should guide their efforts: “do no harm.” That was the message from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s J. Christopher Giancarlo during a speech at the 2016 Blockchain Symposium. Regulators should foster, not impede, developments, he said.

  • Blog

    New OCC Task Force on Banking Innovation

    2015-08-09T14:00:00Z

    Image: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is pulling together a team to consider the regulatory implications of advances in banking technology. “We’re still early in the process, so I can’t tell you exactly where we’ll end up,” OCC director Tom Curry said. He did float the idea ...