⚖️UBS Receives Exemption from Certain Prohibited Transactions
This exemption provides conditional prospective relief that allows current and future asset managers under the UBS corporate umbrella (UBS QPAMs) to continue to rely on PTE 84-14 for the five-year period from June 12, 2024, through June 11, 2029, notwithstanding four judgments of conviction involving entities within the UBS and CSAG (Credit Suisse AG) corporate umbrellas. The exemption also provides conditional retroactive relief to UBS QPAMs covering their reliance on PTE 84-14 during the one-year period from June 12, 2023, through June 11, 2024.
Learn More🔍CFPB Seeks Comments on Consumer Financial Data Collection Practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is seeking comments from the public to better understand how companies that offer or provide consumer financial products or services collect, use, share, and protect consumers' personal financial data, such as data harvested from consumer payments. The submissions in response to this request for information will serve to assist the CFPB and policymakers in further understanding the current state of the business practices at these companies and the concerns of consumers as the CFPB exercises its enforcement, supervision, regulatory, and other authorities.
Learn More📜CFPB Proposes Rule to Ban Unfair Contract Terms in Financial Services
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing to prohibit certain contractual provisions in agreements for consumer financial products or services. The proposal would prohibit covered persons from including in their contracts any provisions purporting to waive substantive consumer legal rights and protections (or their remedies) granted by State or Federal law. The proposal would also prohibit contract terms that limit free expression, including with threats of account closure, fines, or breach of contract claims, as well as other contract terms. The proposal would also codify certain longstanding prohibitions under the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Credit Practices Rule.
Learn More⚖️Inflation Adjustments for Civil Money Penalties Effective 2025
This rule implements inflation adjustments to civil money penalties (CMPs) that the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation (FCSIC) may impose under the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended. These adjustments are required by 2015 amendments to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990.
Learn More📊FDIC Requests Comments on Unbanked Households Survey Renewal
The FDIC, as part of its obligations under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites the public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the request to renew the existing information collections described below (OMB Control No. 3064-0215). The notice of proposed renewal for this information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on October 25, 2024, allowing for a 60-day comment period.
Learn More🚫OFAC Sanctions Notice
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
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