The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced the development and implementation of a supervision program focused directly on service providers – the National Information System Supervision Program (NISSP), which is a comprehensive examination program new to service providers in the financial services industry.
NISSP has started supervising large service providers in the depository and non-depository financial services industries including electronic system platforms, software packages and other types of technological tools.
Service providers need to have robust Compliance Management Systems (CMS) to ensure they provide technology that supports compliance with all 18 consumer protection laws and examination support processes to support the CFPB examination. To learn more, read A&M Financial Industry Advisory Services Managing Director Anthony Gibbs’ article below.
Migrating from Systems of Record (SoR) to Systems of Intelligence (SoI)
March 24, 2026
Financial institutions do not have a core banking problem. They have a decisioning problem. For decades, banks optimized Systems of Record (SoR) to post transactions with precision and maintain regulatory integrity. That battle has largely been won. What now differentiates institutions is not how accurately they book activity, but how intelligently and quickly they make decisions.
CBUAE Resilience Package: What It Means for Your Institution
March 24, 2026
The CBUAE’s five-pillar Resilience Package (17 March 2026) is a proactive intervention backed by the CBUAE’s AED 1 trillion asset base.
CASE STUDY: BIGBANK AS — INAUGURAL SRT
March 20, 2026
Bigbank, a pan-European bank headquartered in Estonia, sought to execute its inaugural SRT transaction as part of its broader capital management strategy. A&M advised the bank on the transaction, helping it successfully enter the securitisation market and structure a capital relief solution aligned with its growth ambitions.
CBUAE Resilience Package: A Familiar Playbook for an Unfamiliar Situation
March 19, 2026
On 17 March 2026, the CBUAE moved swiftly to approve a five-pillar Financial Institution Resilience Package in response to the Iran conflict, backed by record foreign exchange reserves exceeding AED 1 trillion. The response is well-structured and consistent with the CBUAE’s track record of proactive crisis management, having set clear precedents in 2008 and 2020.
