- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-09-18T16:43:00
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) proposed a new rule that would require banks to keep better deposit records on ownership of funds controlled by their financial technology (fintech) partners.
The proposed notice of new rulemaking, published Tuesday, “would strengthen recordkeeping for bank deposits received from third party, non-bank companies accepting those deposits on behalf of consumers and businesses,” the FDIC said in a press release.
The move comes after a high-profile meltdown by Synapse, a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) third party for many fintechs which, when Synapse filed for bankruptcy in May, froze out thousands of customers who held $265 million in deposits with several different apps, CNBC reported in June. At the time, $85 million in customer funds were missing, per the CNBC report.
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Federal banking regulators approved a new rule for bank mergers that will require additional scrutiny of mergers for antitrust issues for large and mid-sized banks.
The Federal Reserve Board ordered an Arkansas bank that partnered with numerous financial technology companies to correct deficiencies in its anti-money laundering, sanctions, risk management, and consumer compliance programs.
President Joe Biden selected a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as his preferred choice to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the aftermath of its toxic workplace culture scandal.
Companies under criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice for any reason must show they have robust compliance for any artificial intelligence in use–or risk heightened prosecution–under a DOJ policy update.
The Securities and Exchange Commission will host a virtual national seminar on Nov. 7 targeted toward chief compliance officers at investment companies and investment advisers.
The Federal Trade Commission took aim at the business models of some of the world’s largest companies, publishing a years-long study that decried technologies that have created “vast surveillance” networks that expose people to “a host of harms” and violate children’s privacy laws.
