OCC

Would McWilliams stay on at FDIC if Biden wins?

08/18/20

Jelena McWilliams's term as FDIC chair expires in 2023, and she cannot be removed by an incoming president. But if Joe Biden prevails, he may ask her to stay — and if she does, governing a Democratic-majority board would be a very different proposition.

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Wells Fargo consumer chief may testify of 'fear' her predecessor inspired

08/17/20

Mary Mack is expected to say that other employees were scared of Carrie Tolstedt, according to the bank’s regulators. Tolstedt, one of five former Wells executives facing civil charges in connection with the bank’s phony-accounts scandal, could be fined as much as $25 million.

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Citigroup’s $900 million loan blunder to face OCC, Fed scrutiny

08/17/20

The bank has begun briefing regulators about how it mistakenly sent payments to creditors of Revlon, the financially strapped cosmetics company. Citi has also filed a lawsuit against Brigade Capital Management seeking to recoup $175 million it sent to Brigade on Revlon's behalf.

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Lawmakers want inquiry into report that OCC halted redlining probes

08/14/20

Senate Democrats asked a watchdog to examine whether the bank regulator failed to investigate claims of discrimination against at least six banks.

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Regulators issue guidance on AML enforcement actions

08/13/20

The federal banking agencies clarified that minor violations of Bank Secrecy Act rules will typically not result in a cease-and-desist order.

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OCC's Brooks questions need for government-owned payment systems

08/13/20

Appearing to support decentralized systems, the acting comptroller of the currency said on a podcast that "the ultimate public ownership of the payment rails is when you have a network, like the internet, of interconnected institutions and computers."

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OCC finalizes assessment fee reduction due to pandemic

08/07/20

The regulator announced in June it would use call report data from before the crisis to calculate bank assessment fees in September, a one-time change.

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Big choices about who will lead financial regulators after 2020 election

08/07/20

Whoever wins the White House in November may have immediate agency openings to fill, while a key decision looms about who will run the Federal Reserve after Jerome Powell’s term expires in 2022.

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Capital One to pay $80M in connection with massive data breach

08/06/20

Regulators found fault with the bank’s cloud migration efforts in the years that preceded a 2019 hacking incident.

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Why an OCC payments charter may not become reality

08/05/20

Just as legal limbo has threatened the agency’s long-running effort to create a fintech license, a charter unique to payments companies could face a court challenge, observers say.

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