Compliance Blog

Jun 04, 2012

Upcoming Hearings, Webcasts, and Comments

Written By JiJi Bahhur, Regulatory Compliance Counsel

Upcoming Hearings. On Wednesday, June 6, there are two hearings that you may find of interest.

From 10am to 12pm, the Senate Banking Committee plans a hearing on "Implementing Wall Street Reform: Enhancing Bank Supervision and Reducing Systemic Risk," with Consumer Financial Protection Burean Director Richard Cordray among the witnesses. Although credit unions aren't affected by this part of Dodd-Frank, NAFCU is monitoring developments in this area for its market impact on cooperatives.

Then, from 2pm to 3pm, the Committee on Financial Services plans a hearing on "An Examination of the Federal Reserve's Final Rule on the CARD Act's 'Ability to Repay' Requirement."  This issue was discussed in NAFCU's Comment Letter to the CFPB on Regulatory Streamlining (see page 3).

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Upcoming NAFCU Webcasts. NAFCU has several compliance webcasts on the horizon that might be of interest:

Note that these webcasts are open to all credit unions, regardless of membership or charter type.

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NAFCU Members. NAFCU's Regulatory Alert on NCUA's 2012 Regulatory Review is available. The NCUA conducts a review of one-third of its existing regulations on an annual basis and NAFCU is closely reviewing these regulations in order to select sections that have proved especially problematic for credit unions in recent years. Comments are due to NAFCU on July 6, 2012. NCUA is accepting comments until August 3rd.