Trump ends West Bank-related sanctions

If enforcement of an Illinois law restricting interchange fees is not prevented before July 1, it will upend the debit- and credit-card operations of federally chartered financial institutions and wreak havoc on the national payment-processing system, ABA, the...

The federal banking agencies rescinded existing risk management model guidance and replaced it with revised principles that they said better account for a financial institution’s size and complexity. ABA applauded the revisions, noting that banks' use of AI...

The CFPB's new focus on reversing regulatory overreach and reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens will help make financial services more affordable and accessible for consumers, ABA said in response to the bureau’s draft strategic plan.

Overall, generative AI adoption remains widely uneven across the workforce.

In a new letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board related to implementation issues of the Current Expected Credit Loss accounting standard, ABA emphasized that “a consistent message has emerged: for community banks, CECL costs far outweigh its...

In the first part in a series, a risk and compliance expert discusses how technology risk in the financial sector increasingly defies traditional definitions and compliance efforts, and how banks can move beyond siloed thinking.