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November’s Regulatory Recap is now available here.  Let us know if we can help in any way. CSG will be closed December 24 & 25 for Christmas.  We wish all of you a happy and healthy holiday.     Please be advised that CSG provides financial services compliance audit and consulting services to our clients.  The services that we provide include … Read More

The CFPB released its first two Advisory Opinion Letters under its Advisory Opinion Program.  The Advisory Opinion Program provides a mechanism through which the Bureau can more effectively carry out its statutory purposes and objectives by better enabling compliance in the face of regulatory and statutory uncertainty. Parties may submit requests for advisory opinions regarding any issue under the Bureau’s purview … Read More

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report which said that the current privacy model form gives consumers only a limited understanding of financial institutions’ information sharing.  The GAO recommended that the CFPB update the form and consider adding more information about third party sharing. The increasing amounts of and changing ways in which industry collects and shares consumer personal … Read More

During its November 19th board meeting the NCUA issued a proposed rule that would allow credit unions to include unpaid interest in loan workouts and modifications.  The proposal includes commercial and business loans.  The proposed rule would amend Appendix B to Part 741 – Loan Workouts, Nonaccrual Policy, and Regulatory Reporting of Troubled Debt Restructured Loans. The Board has determined … Read More

The Federal Reserve, FDIC, FinCEN, NCUA and OCC issued a fact sheet clarifying that compliance efforts to meet Bank Secrecy Act due diligence requirements for customers that are charities and other nonprofit organizations should be based on the money laundering risks posed by the customer relationship. The fact sheet highlights the importance of legitimate charities and nonprofit organizations having access … Read More

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a discussion paper titled Regulatory and Supervisory Issues Relating to Outsourcing and Third-Party Relationships.  The paper builds on the FSB’s 2019 report Third-Party Dependencies in Cloud Services and a survey conducted during the first quarter of 2020 on the existing regulatory and supervisory landscape related to outsourcing and third-party risk management. The paper states: … Read More

On October 30, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) issued a final rule to restate and clarify prohibitions on harassment and abuse, false or misleading representations, and unfair practices by debt collectors when collecting consumer debt. The rule focuses on debt collection communications and gives consumers more control over how often and through what means debt collectors can communicate with … Read More

The CFPB’s November Quarterly Consumer Credit Trends report examines how often lenders report, or furnish, information on borrowers’ actual payment to nationwide consumer reporting agencies.  The report finds that actual payment furnishing for installment loan products including mortgages, auto, and student loans has steadily increased between 2012 and 2020.  Over the same period, actual payment furnishing for credit card and … Read More

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published its Fall 2020 Semiannual Risk Perspective.  Naturally, COVID-19 is a large factor on the risk environment for financial institutions.  These risks include credit risks and consumers’ ability to service debts, financial performance in a long-term low-rate environment, cybersecurity risks from altered work environments, and compliance risks with institutions trying to … Read More