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The OCC fined American Express National Bank $350 million for BSA and AML failures after delays in reporting suspicious activity.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min
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The OCC fined American Express National Bank $350 million for BSA and AML failures after delays in reporting suspicious activity.
Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min

S.3315 cleared the Senate unanimously and heads to the House. The bill adds rural hospital grants and security upgrades.
Oct 4, 2026 · 4 min

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand reintroduced the Data Protection Act to create a federal privacy agency and regulate data
Oct 2, 2026 · 2 min

The Senate advanced bipartisan telecom bills on voluntary certification and an NTIA working group to set cybersecurity best practices.
Sep 26, 2026 · 3 min

The OCC reorganized its cyber supervision program for national banks and federal savings associations without adding new requirements.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min

Warner and Wyden reintroduced a bill to set mandatory health cyber standards, with audits, continuity plans and $1.3 billion.
Sep 23, 2026 · 2 min

Treasury is pushing banks to file more SARs on cyberfraud and added a keyword to flag possible scam centers.
Sep 21, 2026 · 4 min

Congress moves on data privacy and incident reporting, while CISA’s CIRCIA rule remains pending and could affect cross-border operations.
Sep 21, 2026 · 4 min

The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 as Congress moved on AI bills covering data centers, fraud, frontier models
Sep 19, 2026 · 4 min

The Treasury asked banks to improve suspicious activity reports tied to cyber scams and added a SAR keyword after losses near $13 billion.
Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min

CIRCIA could take effect in late 2026 or early 2027, while Congress weighs bills that would require AI reporting
Sep 17, 2026 · 3 min

The U.S. Treasury asked banks and fintechs to step up cyberfraud reporting, citing losses of nearly $13 billion since 2023.
Sep 16, 2026 · 4 min

Congress faces CISA deadlines and new bills on cyber threat sharing, federal surveillance and health data.
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min

The OCC said public comments are due 60 days after Federal Register publication. The proposal moves ahead with the Fed
Sep 12, 2026 · 4 min

The OCC keeps a 36-hour reporting rule for banks and foreign branches in the U.S., as CIRCIA and NYDFS add pressure.
Sep 11, 2026 · 4 min

Congress is weighing bills on AI chatbots, autonomous agents, maritime cybersecurity and health care resilience, with compliance implications.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min

The House is moving on child privacy, smart meter data, and AI agent security through three federal bills.
Sep 9, 2026 · 3 min

Dallas Fed says generative AI and AI agents belong inside existing bank risk frameworks.
Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min

HIPRA and new House bills on smart meters, data brokers, water and platform liability move forward in Congress.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3 min

U.S. proposed a special measure on Banque Misr UAE and clarified SAR, cybersecurity and bank board expectations.
Sep 6, 2026 · 2 min

The House passed the NDO Fairness Act and extended CISA 2015 through Dec. 11. Health, network security and minors bills also moved.
Sep 4, 2026 · 3 min

The U.S. Treasury formed a public-private group to prepare finance for post-quantum cryptography, without immediate new rules.
Sep 3, 2026 · 3 min

The OCC and FDIC raised the bar for unsafe or unsound findings and standardized the MRA threshold.
Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min

FFIEC, NIST and NYDFS are tightening U.S. bank requirements, with more focus on third parties, reporting and compliance evidence.
Aug 30, 2026 · 3 min

The final rule tightens the definition of unsafe or unsound practices and raises the MRA bar to material financial risk.
Aug 29, 2026 · 3 min

Bills in Congress would require AI to disclose sponsored content and major data centers to report their electricity and water use.
Aug 29, 2026 · 3 min

Brazil's ANPD fined ByteDance R$153.7 million and ordered the deletion of irregularly collected teen data on TikTok.
Aug 28, 2026 · 4 min

Treasury, the Fed, FDIC, OCC and FinCEN advance post-quantum crypto, supervisory data, stablecoins and AI oversight.
Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min

Brazil’s Central Bank tightens Pix rules, adds cryptoasset oversight, and raises security requirements for banks
Aug 27, 2026 · 2 min

Congress still has no federal privacy law, while debate moves ahead on NDAs, AI rules, and a cybersecurity liability extension.
Aug 26, 2026 · 4 min

Congress advanced a bill to bar certain NDAs on data centers and a Senate measure to strengthen water system cyber oversight.
Aug 25, 2026 · 3 min

The Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025 cleared its third committee. It would require Commerce to build a public guidance repository for operators.
Aug 24, 2026 · 4 min

Brazil’s ANPD suspended Discord livestreams and tightened LGPD rules. HackZero is already updating privacy terms for US transfers and incident notices.
Aug 24, 2026 · 3 min

The OCC proposed a new framework for sharing confidential supervisory information and kept cyber incident reporting requirements in place.
Aug 22, 2026 · 2 min

The bill remains in committee and has not reached the House floor. It could expand federal control over data
Aug 19, 2026 · 3 min

FinCEN ended domestic beneficial ownership reporting, stripping banks of a federal KYC reference and raising the bar for correspondent controls.
Aug 18, 2026 · 4 min

SEC cyber disclosure rules remain in force, while the OCC is intensifying third-party oversight. The reach extends to Argentina.
Aug 16, 2026 · 2 min

HIPRA moved out of Senate committee, while the GUARD Financial Data Act added new rules on minimization, opt-out, access
Aug 15, 2026 · 5 min

NYDFS keeps its cybersecurity resource center and 23 NYCRR Part 500 active, while guidance also tracks GLBA and PCI DSS changes.
Aug 1, 2026 · 3 min

The House Science Committee advanced a federal AI security center as Gold Eagle already coordinates critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
Jul 21, 2026 · 3 min

FINRA expanded its GenAI guidance in its 2026 oversight report, detailing risks, testing, monitoring and supervision for member firms.
Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min

A bipartisan bill would define transnational repression, add up to 10 years in prison, and expand DOJ and FBI oversight.
Jul 17, 2026 · 3 min