A Buzzfeed investigation on more than 2,100 suspicious activity reports banks filed with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reveals that over a period of nearly two decades, major institutions moved trillions of dollars for suspected terrorists, drug dealers, and corrupt foreign government officials.
Read MoreThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this week released proposals regarding SME lenders that could be exempted from data collection requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Read MoreAn Executive Order dated August 6 prohibits “any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.” It takes effect in 45 days of the Order, and includes digital payments through WeChat.
Read MoreThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Friday, July 26, that it will propose new rules on how third parties can access consumer financial records later this year.
Read MoreIn an embarrassing gut punch to Facebook, from the Brazilian central bank Tuesday suspended WhatsApp payments barely a week after the service launched in the country. The regulator said rolling out the payments service without prior analysis could damage the payments system from a competition, efficiency and data privacy point of view.
Read MoreNow, instead of just prosecuting big tech, Europe is looking to compete with them.
Read MoreIt seems the only thing Congress can agree on is its dislike of big tech.
Read MoreIn a recent panel talk at Davos (where else?), Salesforce’s co-CEO Keith Block advocated for a national data privacy law in the U.S.
Read MoreBig tech seems to be having some tax woes lately, from the efforts of EU antitrust authorities to recover what they say are tens of billion in back taxes to the new “digital tax” imposed by France and a court case that could impact multinationals.
Read MoreSmaller enterprises typically do not have the budgets that large organizations do, and thus have to come up with unique ways to compete in the marketplace. In this vein, the Department of Labor released what we think is a very smart rule this week.
Read MoreThe 2017 data breach at Equifax, was one of the largest in history. Now it will go down as the costliest. While this all sounds well and good as a headline, we hope much of this money will go to affected consumers.
One of the enduring memories of the Obamacare rollout in 2013 was the extreme tech issues with its website, Healthcare.gov. California officials hope a similar fate doesn’t derail its ambitious new data privacy law, set to go into effect at the beginning of next year.
Read MoreIn light of Michael Cohen’s conviction and prison entrée on May 6, we thought we’d share a fascinating story from Institutional Investor on what white collar criminals and Wall Streeters face in prison. Since the 80s and the height of the “greed is good” era, there has been a perception that the minimum security prisons that white collar felons go to are more akin to hotels (think “Club Fed”).
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