Regulation

The National Credit Union Administration board voted Thursday to advance a proposed rule that would loosen existing regulations and allow credit unions to purchase member loans from fintechs.

Danske Bank A/S admitted to fraud and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to end a long-running U.S. probe into money laundering at its Estonia branch, an embarrassing episode that led to the ouster of top management and pushed thousands of customers to leave.

The National Credit Union Administration's emergency exemption allowing for remote board and membership meetings at federally chartered institutions is scheduled to lapse at year-end. The agency's chairman recommended hybrid meetings as an option that can satisfy traditional meeting requirements.

Santander UK was fined £108 million ($132 million) by the U.K. financial watchdog over repeated anti-money-laundering failures that included a series of missteps over its monitoring of hundreds of millions of pounds of suspicious funds.

Marijuana shops across the U.S. are rushing to find alternative ways for customers to pay after networks that supported a popular workaround to the banking system began to shut down last week.

In an appeals court filing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote that a federal judge "ignored regulatory text, history and context" when she ruled against a PNC customer. The consumer argues that the bank shouldn't have pulled funds from his checking account after he was tardy in making payments on his home equity line of credit.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating whether the cryptocurrency lender Nexo Financial is abiding by consumer protection laws, according to documents released this week. The CFPB rejected the company's argument that the agency has no authority to conduct the probe.

Long before Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed this month, it already was on the radar of federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

The National Credit Union Administration has asked Congress to restore its authority over credit union service organizations and other vendors, but some in the industry say the regulator already has enough on its plate.

Former Goldman Sachs Group banker Asante Berko was arrested on charges that he orchestrated bribes to Ghanaian officials while employed at the investment bank.