American Express agrees to $350M OCC penalty; regulators issue consent orders
Key takeaway
American Express pays $350m civil money penalty to Fed and OCC for financial-crimes compliance failures
- Step 1 · The triggerAmerican Express National Bank pays $350m civil money penalty and enters Fed/OCC consent orders for financial-crimes compliance deficiencies
- Step 2 · Knock-onongoing compliance-monitoring obligations raise American Express's regulatory operating cost and management bandwidth absorption
- Step 3 · Knock-onmerchant-acquisition unit faces pressure to recover compliance-inflated cost base through pricing or reduced merchant incentives
- Step 4 · Reaches youUS SME card-acceptors face merchant-fee escalation or reduced service levels as the network passes through cost
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Source: Google News US Business
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