August 14, 2026
Banks Turn Fewer AML Alerts Into Bigger Financial Crime Leads

Financial institutions have spent years trying to see more suspicious activity. New data from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) suggests the more valuable question may be whether they can...

August 14, 2026
SEC Cancels Planned Meeting on Registration Exemptions for Crypto Tokens

The Securities and Exchange Commission has abruptly canceled an open meeting scheduled for Friday (Aug. 14) to consider proposed exemptions for digital asset companies. The cancellation postpones a potentially significant...

August 12, 2026
AI Recordkeeping Raises Compliance Questions for Financial Services Firms

Financial services firms are moving rapidly to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in compliance, communications and other business functions, but their use of the technology is raising a deceptively familiar regulatory...

August 12, 2026
FinCEN Deletes Ownership Data but Banks Keep the Risk

The federal government spent years building toward a centralized answer to one of banking’s oldest compliance questions: Who actually owns the company moving the money? Now, much of that answer...

August 12, 2026
Veriff and Uphold on Verifying Customers for the Life of...

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August 10, 2026
What the OCC’s Wise and Bunq Denials Mean for FinTech...

A national bank charter promises FinTechs a more direct route into U.S. financial services. But the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is making clear that getting one...

August 10, 2026
FDIC Lets Augustus Pair Stablecoins With Insured Deposits

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has approved deposit insurance for a proposed national bank built in part around digital assets and stablecoins. The approval provides one of the clearest...

August 07, 2026
Senate CLARITY Act Compromise Draft Seeks Middle Ground on Stablecoins,...

The Senate’s latest compromise draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act attempts to bridge many of the disputes that have stalled comprehensive U.S. digital asset legislation. The revised...

August 06, 2026
Coalition Opposes AI Sandbox Proposal in CLARITY Act

A coalition of civil rights, labor, consumer advocacy and technology accountability organizations is urging the U.S. Senate to remove provisions establishing federal AI regulatory sandboxes from the proposed CLARITY Act....