HSA Council Represented at White House Meeting

ABA resented lawmakers with a national blueprint for fighting fraud and scams, which included requiring telecommunications and social media companies to do their part and giving states and local governments the resources to target financial crimes.

The bipartisan legislation would allow a family caregiver with an HSA to use account funds for the qualified medical expenses of a parent, parent-in-law or an individual’s spouse and dependents.

Proposed laws to ban the collection of interchange fees for certain payments have advanced in Colorado and Delaware even as federal courts weigh the legality of a similar law in Illinois.

The Federal Reserve is not tracking the information needed to improve the efficiency and timeliness of processing applications for community bank mergers and acquisitions, the Fed Office of Inspector General concluded in a new report.

Proposed acquisitions announced of banks in Michigan, Washington, Missouri and Iowa.

The State Department has formally launched a new bureau to combat cyber threats and other technological risks posed by other countries, ABC News reported.