CFPB Monitor
JANUARY 25, 2021
Per the Utah Department of Financial Institutions website, Rakuten Bank America’s application for a Utah ILC charter was received on July 26, 2019 and remains pending. . Rakuten’s first FDIC deposit insurance application was filed in July 2019, and was withdrawn in March 2020. based bank, Rakuten Bank America.
Bank Innovation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
The charter, submitted to the State of Utah last June, would give the online lender the ability to collect deposits insured by the […].
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PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2020
Also, Square won a banking license for an industrial bank in Utah. FDIC Approves Square for Banking License. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) granted Square a banking license to operate a de novo industrial bank in Salt Lake City. Coronavirus Triggers Job Losses, Reduced Hours.
PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2017
Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Officially SoFi is looking for an industrial loan charter under the name SoFi Bank in Utah. SoFi has confirmed the news. The bank will offer no other products and services.”.
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 15, 2022
In 2019, California enacted AB 539 which, effective January 1, 2020, limited the interest rate that can be charged on loans of $2,500 to $10,000 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate.
PYMNTS
JUNE 20, 2017
The action comes a week after the FDIC announced that digital lender SoFi had applied to the state of Utah for a special banking charter known as an ILC. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.
CFPB Monitor
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Unless it settles, it creates a risk to the viability of bank model online lending that is structured like OppFi’s Program. It would be helpful if the FDIC were to submit an amicus brief supporting OppFi’s position regarding federal preemption of California usury law under Section 27(a) of the FDI Act.
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