As members of the financial industry prepare to meet the challenges associated with COVID-19, key government agencies have begun to offer guidance with respect to how their regulated financial institutions, including non-depositories, can meet their compliance obligations while balancing the realities of a potential pandemic event due to COVID-19. This blog summarizes the latest updates
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Financial Services Licensing and Compliance Obligations and COVID-19
As members of the financial industry prepare to meet the challenges associated with COVID-19, key government agencies have begun to offer guidance with respect to how their regulated financial institutions, including non-depositories, can meet their compliance obligations while balancing the realities of a potential pandemic event due to COVID-19. This blog summarizes the updates that…
O Canada! What Canada’s Nationwide Legalization of Cannabis Means for American Financial Institutions
Today marks a significant shift in cannabis policy, both domestically and internationally, as Canada becomes the first industrialized nation in the world, and only the second nation overall, to legalize cannabis. This follows the passage of The Cannabis Act in June of this year, which legalized cannabis at all levels of government.
With this blessing…
FFIEC Highlights Cyber Insurance for Financial Institutions
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has issued a joint statement emphasizing the need for lenders and servicers to include cyber insurance in their risk management program. Although the FFIEC did not announce new regulatory requirements or expectations, the announcement is further evidence of what most in the industry have already recognized: Cyber coverage…
The Bank Next Door: Part I – Using Social Media to “Friend” Customers
[This post is the first in a series of post which will examine the risks, rewards, innovative uses, and changing legal landscape of social media use by financial services institutions. Future blog posts will examine topics such as: monitoring and managing consumer complaints through social media, disgruntled employee use of social media, and control over …
Banking “Smarts” For Financial Transactions Via Smartphone Technology
Mobile banking is quickly gaining momentum as the most important form of interaction between customers and their banks, and, by some accounts, is expected to become neck-in-neck with online banking and ATM use this year. Each year since 2011 the Federal Reserve has conducted a “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services” survey of over 2,000 U.S.…