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This week’s podcast: a conversation with Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation

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Paul formerly worked in the Arizona Attorney General’s office where he was in charge of fintech initiatives and led the state’s successful efforts to create the first “regulatory sandbox” in the United States which allows new financial technologies and products to be tested in a controlled environment with reduced regulatory risk.

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CFPB and Colorado Attorney General announce joint virtual office hours as part of AFCIN

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These joint office hours are intended to give companies pursuing innovation in consumer financial services the opportunity to discuss new financial technology and ideas for innovation to benefit consumers with officials from the CFPB, state attorneys general, and state regulators.

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Online lending summit speakers discuss SPNB charters, CFPB trial disclosure policy, alternative data

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earlier this week, the OCC’s recent decision to accept applications from non-depository financial technology firms for a special purpose national bank (SPNB) charter was the focus of considerable discussion. At the Online Lending Policy Institute’s (OLPI) annual summit in Washington, D.C.

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CFPB proposes revisions to trial disclosure policy

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB is proposing significant revisions to its “Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs” (TDP Policy), which sets forth the Bureau’s standards and procedures for exempting individual companies, on a case-by-case basis, from applicable federal disclosure requirements to allow those companies to test trial disclosures.