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News BriefLatest off-channel comms sweep nets SEC, CFTC $477M in fines
Two regulators doled out more than $477 million in fines on a new group of broker-dealers, investment advisers, and swaps dealers that failed to maintain and preserve the electronic communications of their employees, bringing total such fines issued since 2021 to $3.2 billion.
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News BriefSEC fines OTC Link $1.2M over allegedly failing to file SARs
New York-based broker-dealer OTC Link will pay a $1.2 million fine to settle charges levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegedly failing to implement a system to monitor and report potential suspicious activities on its platforms.
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PodcastPodcast: BCG managing director on anti-financial crime technology
Staff writer Aaron Nicodemus discussed anti-financial crime technology in banking with Hanjo Seibert, managing director and partner of Boston Consulting Group, during the latest episode of the Compliance Week podcast.
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News BriefFed orders Customers Bank to improve AML, sanctions compliance
Pennsylvania-based Customers Bancorp avoided a fine but was ordered to revamp and strengthen its anti-money laundering, sanctions, and Bank Secrecy Act compliance programs after finding “significant deficiencies,” the Federal Reserve Board announced.
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PremiumQ&A: Paxful CCO on ramping up compliance after BSA failures
Manfred Bekeris, chief compliance officer at cypto peer-to-peer network Paxful, sat down with Compliance Week to talk about joining the company shortly before its former chief operating officer and co-founder pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
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News BriefFTX, Alameda to pay $12.7B in historic settlement with CFTC
FTX Trading and its sister cryptocurrency exchange Alameda Research will pay $12.7 billion to settle charges laid by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that the two companies violated the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations.
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Basic PageDOJ lawsuit alleges TikTok ignored order to enhance COPPA compliance
TikTok is in hot water with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission over widespread failures to comply with a 2019 consent order to enhance compliance with children’s privacy laws.
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ResourceWhite paper: Top 5 Mobile Compliance Best Practices
The message from the regulators is clear - having an off-channel policy for mobile communications is not good enough.
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PremiumLexisNexis survey: Compliance costs soared for U.K. banks in 2023
Nearly all but a tiny minority of financial institutions saw their costs of financial crime compliance rise in 2023, a survey by LexisNexis and Oxford Economics found.
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PremiumDORA set to enhance cyber resilience requirements for EU financial firms
The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act, which is set to take effect next year, will require financial services firms to implement stronger measures to protect not only themselves from disruption caused by cyberattacks but also the sector as a whole.
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PremiumAI can help reel in ‘unsustainable’ breach costs, IBM report finds
The global average cost of a data breach jumped to an all-time high for the second year in a row, but companies can reel in the ballooning drag on profits by adopting artificial intelligence, according to an IBM report.
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PremiumSFO staffing shortages improve under new leadership
Staffing shortages that have plagued the U.K. Serious Fraud Office are trending in the right direction since its new director took charge, with the anti-bribery agency forging ahead with initiatives to ensure its future sustainability.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Proactive AI compliance: 4 essential steps to minimize exposure
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance rapidly and organizations expand their usage to optimize efficiency and productivity, implementing internal AI policies to ensure regulatory compliance and minimize exposure remains a hot topic.
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Resourcee-Book: Anticipating regulatory scrutiny of AI
Regulators across the globe are chomping at the bit to supervise how businesses use artificial intelligence, prompting experts to encourage compliance to get involved in the decision-making process regarding the technology.
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News BriefFTC wants answers from Mastercard, JPMorgan, others on use of AI to collect data
Eight large companies, including Mastercard and JPMorgan Chase, have been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to provide detailed reports about their possibly secret use of artificial intelligence to track customers and use the information to set prices.
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PremiumOff-channel comms ‘hottest’ SEC mock exam topic, survey finds
Nearly three-quarters of compliance professionals at investment firms have made testing for off-channel and electronic communications surveillance a top priority in mock exams, according to a new poll, with more than half calling it the “hottest” topic of discussion.
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News BriefEmployees accuse OpenAI of illegal NDAs blocking whistleblower rights
Anonymous employees of OpenAI accused the company of requiring employees to sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that “prohibited and discouraged” them from reporting securities law violations to federal regulators.
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News BriefEx-Paxful co-founder pleads guilty to violating BSA/AML regulations
The co-founder and former chief technology officer of crypto peer-to-peer network Paxful faces charges related to violating the anti-money laundering requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act.
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News BriefEx-Outcome Health execs sentenced for overbilled ad revenue, misleading auditor
Three former executives of Chicago-based Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, were sentenced for misleading an auditor, clients, lenders, and investors about a scheme to sell $45 million in overbilled advertisements.
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PremiumHow fintechs can overcome major compliance hurdles in embedded finance
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.