All in Regulatory Update

On 2/14/2022, the FinCEN issued a fact sheet on its Rapid Response Program (RRP). RRP is a collaborative partnership that leverages FinCEN’s relationships with law enforcement, U.S. financial institutions, and foreign financial intelligence units to help victims and their financial institutions recover funds stolen as the result of certain cyber-enabled financial crimes schemes, including business e-mail compromise.

On 2/10/2022, the CFPB released a blog post discussing the changes that banks are making to their overdraft programs. The CFPB also prepared a table comparing overdraft fees and policies across banks. According to the CFPB, they will continue to monitor these developments to better understand the impact of these changes, and to work to ensure that banks continue to evolve their businesses to reduce reliance on overdraft and NSF fees.

In early February, 2022, the Federal Reserve released a Synthetic Identity Fraud Mitigation Toolkit which offers a wide variety of informative resources for financial institutions, consumers and businesses on fraud mitigation. The issuance of the fraud mitigation toolkit is the next step in the Federal Reserve’s years-long commitment and engagement with fraud experts to support the payments industry in its battle against fraud.

On 2/8/2022, the FinCEN announced that the comment period to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) requiring the reporting of beneficial ownership information (BOI), tagged as Reporting NPRM, has closed. FinCEN received at least 230 comments. The next step in the CTA rulemaking series will be the publication of proposed rules on BOI access and disclosure requirements, which will be known as the “Access NPRM”, and which the FinCEN plans to publish later this year.

VIDEO: Are Changes Coming to Overdraft Programs?

In this Compliance Clip (video), Adam shares some interesting hints of change that relate to overdraft protection programs. While nothing has been formally planned to be changed, this video shows several actions by the regulators which could be a foreshadow to changes with guidance for overdraft protection programs. If your organization has an overdraft protection program, you won’t want to miss this 7 minute video. A transcript of this video is now available.

On 2/2/2022, the OCC issued a bulletin that addresses the OCC’s processes for considering input from state banking commissioners regarding national banks’ performance under state community reinvestment laws, including implementation of community reinvestment-related provisions of the Riegle–Neal Act. The bulletin also addresses expectations regarding the handling of consumer complaints that state officials refer to national banks and federal savings associations, and state referrals of complaints to the OCC.