All Rules & Proposals articles – Page 22
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Treasury issues second report on ‘core principles of financial regulation’
The Treasury Department has released its second report, as demanded by a presidential order, with recommendations to streamline the regulatory system and improve capital markets.
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CFPB finalizes its polarizing payday lending rule
Plunging itself into yet another industry-led political battle, the CFPB has finalized new payday lending rules. It will require that lenders determine upfront whether customers can afford repayment.
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Bill would break up Wells Fargo and other megabanks for misdeeds
Rep. Maxine Waters has unveiled the Megabank Accountability and Consequences Act, legislation demanding that federal banking regulators initiate proceedings to wind down big banks that repeatedly violate consumer protection laws.
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Bill targets ‘burdensome’ Dodd-Frank regulations, SIFI designations
Bipartisan legislation is looking to bring regulatory relief to regional banks and bring about new ways for calculating whether an institution should be designated as systemically important.
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President Trump touts $300M in reclaimed regulatory costs
President Trump and his administration are claiming that an ongoing deregulation agenda has saved the nation an estimated $300 million. Meanwhile, those efforts are bolstered by the creation of a new, like-minded business group.
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Senate confronts legal, logistical roadblocks to self-driving cars
Legislation that would clarify lingering legal conundrums about autonomous vehicles is working its way through the Senate with the American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies Act.
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In cyber-security, you are your own worst enemy
Highly publicized breaches at the SEC and Equifax reveal how compliance efforts and reputation protection is often undermined by a lack of common sense.
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Beyond the breach: SEC’s Clayton on clawbacks, fiduciary rules, and materiality
While much of his time before the Senate Banking Committee last week focused on a newly disclosed 2016 data breach, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton weighed in on numerous other topics.
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SEC’s Clayton provides update on EDGAR breach
An update issued by the SEC on Oct. 2 outlines projects and initiatives it has launched in the aftermath of a recently announced 2016 breach of the EDGAR filing system.
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FSOC lets AIG shed ‘systemically important’ status
The Financial Stability Oversight Council has de-designated AIG as a systemically important financial institution, a classification that had placed heightened prudential standards and regulatory expectations upon the non-bank.
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SEC offers relief, deadline extensions for hurricane victims
The SEC is providing regulatory relief to publicly traded companies and others unable to meet filing requirements due to hurricane damage and mail disruptions.
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Exasperated Clayton briefs Senators on SEC breach
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton provided fresh insight into the Commission's recently annunced 2016 data breach during scheduled testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.
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News headlines complicate looming arbitration vote
As Republican critics of the CFPB’s arbitration rule prepare for a Senate vote to repeal it, news headlines are giving their progressive opposition plenty of ammunition and leverage..
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Senators want Equifax answers on clawbacks, disclosures
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and fellow senators have expanded their investigation into the recent Equifax breach, the company's response, and the possibility of executive pay clawbacks.
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SEC data breach reveals fear and loathing in the mainframe
A breach disclosure by the SEC does the agency no favors as it prepares to dig deep into data troves for market surveillance.
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Amid reform considerations, Trump utilizes foreign deal reviews
On the heels of a rejected semiconductor deal with Chinese investors, legislators are pondering reforms for how international M&A is reviewed.
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SEC offers interpretive guidance, scenarios for pay ratio rule
Lacking a reprieve from its effective date, the SEC has released interpretive guidance intended to assist companies in their efforts to comply with the controversial pay ratio rule.
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Senate advances human trafficking bills, debates Communications Decency Act
Bills aiming to keep human trafficking off the nation’s roadways roadways passed in the Senate this week. Next up: a legislative effort seeking to attack the problem of Internet-facilitated human trafficking, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017.
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Dems pitch data protections in response to Equifax woes
Democratic senators have introduced new legislation intended “to give control over credit and personal information back to consumers” following a massive data breach at consumer credit rating firm Equifax that compromised the personal information of at least 143 million Americans.
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A comprehensive look at the new General Data Protection Regulation
In this e-Book, we explain in detail what the GDPR is and what new changes it demands from companies that collect or process personal data on EU citizens. Examples of questions that will be answered include: Under what circumstances is a data protection officer required? What are the steps ...