Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Flash Report May 4, 2020 Treasury Department Continues to Issue Guidelines for Small Business Paycheck Protection Program The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was signed into law on March 27, 2020, offers a lifeline to small businesses and sole proprietors (generally those with 500 or fewer employees) in the form of the Paycheck Protection Programme (PPP) administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This programme initially authorized $349 billion in… Newsletter May 28, 2020 Compliance Insights - May 2020 Your monthly compliance news roundup BSA/AML Examination Manual Updates from FFIEC On April 15, 2020, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released updates to the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) examination manual. The manual is used to evaluate an institution’s compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements. This… Newsletter August 30, 2022 Compliance Insights - June 2020 Your monthly compliance news roundup FinCEN: BSA Reporting Obligations Remain Crucial During COVID-19 as Fraud Trends Rise The first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States was confirmed on January 20, 2020, two months after the first known cases are believed to have originated in China. While the world turned its attention to the virus and finding effective treatment… Flash Report May 18, 2020 What the Interagency Guidance on Credit Risk Review Systems Means for Your Institution Introduction On May 8, 2020, the Agencies[1] released a final version of the Interagency Guidance on Credit Risk Review Systems. This final guidance applies to all institutions supervised by the Agencies and supersedes regulatory expectations for credit risk review systems documented in Attachment 1 - Loan Review Systems – of the 2006 Interagency Policy Statement on… Whitepaper November 21, 2022 Preparing financial institutions for an unfamiliar economic downturn We are in unusual economic times. While making predictions may be a fool’s errand, the aggressive posturing among central banks to fight runaway inflation implies that we will soon be — if not already are — in the late stage of the economic cycle. However, considering the past several months of mixed economic data, the outcome of the downturn and the developments that drive it are likely to look… Whitepaper August 11, 2023 Navigating sanctions compliance through the transition to ISO 20022 The International Organisation for Standardisation’s (ISO) new global messaging standard, ISO 20022, is set to be adopted by payment processing organisations globally by 2025. Whitepaper December 12, 2022 The evolving complexity of financial institution compliance: Top compliance priorities for 2023 Ask an executive from most any company anywhere across the globe what her biggest concern is for 2023 and she is likely to say “uncertainty” — notably, uncertainty about how geopolitical tensions, national elections and their aftermath, and economic conditions will affect the business as well as uncertainty about the company’s ability to adapt to the post- COVID work environment. Flash Report June 8, 2023 U.S. Banking Regulators Finalise (Finally) Revised Third-Party Risk Management Guidance On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the agencies) issued the “Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management.”[1] This marks the long-awaited finalisation of the proposed guidance that was initially issued on July 19,… Flash Report June 20, 2017 Il recepimento della IV Direttiva AML in Italia Nel mese di maggio 2015, il Legislatore Europeo ha emanato il testo definitivo della nuova Direttiva in tema di contrasto al riciclaggio e al finanziamento del terrorismo che, come è noto, reca modifiche al panorama normativo ad oggi in essere sul tema. La IV Direttiva impone il 26 giugno 2017 come data ultima ai fini del recepimento delle proprie previsioni all’interno degli ordinamenti… Flash Report July 5, 2017 Autovalutazione dei rischi di riciclaggio e di finanziamento del terrorismo: estensione alle Compagnie di Assicurazione Il 5 giugno 2017 l’Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni ha pubblicato una lettera al mercato nella quale viene richiesto alle Compagnie di Assicurazione operanti nei rami Vita la conduzione di un esercizio di autovalutazione dei rischi di riciclaggio e di finanziamento del terrorismo. La richiesta, pervenuta dall’Autorità di Vigilanza Assicurativa, risulta allineata alle previsioni… Load More