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Examiners from the nation's regulator of large banks will have more time to look for anti-money laundering violations now that a new agency has assumed some responsibility for enforcing consumer protection rules. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will use the resources it once spent enforcing the consumer regulations at large banks toward examining for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and other compliance, said Dan Stipano, the agency's deputy chief counsel, during a July 13 online chat held by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). The shift stems from the creation of the...