In today’s financial services environment, keeping up with the regulatory compliance landscape is challenging, and takes an ever-increasing commitment of your credit union's time and energy. Our REGular Blog is designed to keep you informed of what’s happening in the regulatory compliance world by providing not only our thought leadership and perspective, but also linking you to helpful resources from other trade associations and industry groups. From Richmond to Alexandria to Washington, stay in the know on issues to help you stay one step ahead of the regulators.
- CFPB Issues Final League-Opposed Credit Card Penalty Fee Rule
March 5, 2024The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued its final rule on credit card penalty fees. "We maintain that the Bureau's rule fails to consider the negative consequences likely to result from the regulation, including interest rate hikes and changes to other terms and fee amounts," notes League Chief Advocacy Officer JT Blau. "The proposal also does not take into account credit unions' member-owned, not-for-profit business model, which incentivizes credit unions to keep fees reasonable and proportionate to the costs of providing the service."
- REGular Blog: CFPB Issues Final Rule Limiting Credit Card Late Fees
March 5, 2024Today the CFPB issued its final rule on credit card late fees, which lowers the safe harbor on credit card late fees for large issuers. The rule was proposed last year, and it did change slightly from the proposed version. The Final Rule is a hot conversation topic here at GAC!
- Sen. Mark Warner Meets With Virginia CU Representatives at League's Capitol Hill Reception
March 4, 2024As part of our advocacy efforts at GAC today, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was the guest of honor at the League's Legislative Reception on Capitol Hill.
- League Meets with NCUA Board Vice Chair Kyle Hauptman
March 4, 2024Chief Advocacy Officer JT Blau met Sunday with National Credit Union Administration Board Vice Chairman Kyle Hauptman to discuss a number of issues, including credit union board meeting frequency, challenges facing board and supervisory committee members, and upcoming call report changes.
- Transparency Needed in Any Future NCUA Call Report Changes
February 29, 2024Credit unions support a more transparent process for changes to NCUA’s call report, America’s Credit Unions’ Ann Petros wrote to NCUA Chairman Todd Harper Wednesday. Changes to the call report—proposed by the NCUA Board in December and effective March 31—require credit unions with more than $1 billion in assets to list income related to overdraft fees and non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees in the call report.
- REGular Blog: An Update on NCUA Requiring Large Credit Unions to Report Overdraft and NSF Fee Income
February 27, 2024A couple of weeks ago we wrote about NCUA Chairman Todd Harper's speech and discussion at the Brookings Institution, during which he discussed how NCUA would be amending the Call Report to require large credit unions (in this case meaning more than $1 billion in total assets) to report income from overdraft fees and NSF fees. He stated the agency was working on the change through the Paperwork Reduction Act. Today we are looking at what exactly are the changes that are being proposed as well as what is still unclear about the proposed change.
- FinCEN Sees Increase in BSA Reporting Involving the Use of Convertible Virtual Currency for Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking
February 27, 2024The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Financial Trend Analysis (FTA) today reflecting an increase in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reporting associated with the use of convertible virtual currency (CVC) and online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) and human trafficking. This FTA is based on BSA reporting filed between January 2020 and December 2021. FinCEN’s analysis highlights the value of BSA reporting filed by regulated financial institutions.
- FFIEC Issues Statement on Examination Principles Related to Valuation Discrimination and Bias in Residential Lending
February 22, 2024On February 12, 2024, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a statement of principles related to residential property appraisal and valuation practices for member entities to consider in their consumer compliance and safety and soundness examinations. The principles are intended to aid member entities in assessing whether supervised institutions’ compliance management systems and risk management practices are appropriate in identifying and mitigating risks due to discrimination or bias as well as promoting credible valuations.
- NCUA Call Report Update: Focus on Overdraft & NSF Fees; Penalties Resume
February 20, 2024If you’ve been following regulatory compliance developments over the past 18 months or so, then you’ve likely noticed that the regulatory agencies have increased their scrutiny of certain fees charged by credit unions. While numerous fees have been targeted, the agencies have focused the most attention on overdraft and non-sufficient funds (NSF) fees.
- League’s Reg Compliance Update Set for March 13
February 20, 2024Count on your League to help you manage today's complex regulatory compliance environment! We've scheduled the first of this year’s quarterly virtual updates for March 13. These virtual updates are designed to aid your team in building its compliance resources and boosting its regulatory expertise. Register now.
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