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

CFPB Monitor

Our guest for this week’s podcast is Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation. The Office has taken over the Bureau’s work that was formerly done under Project Catalyst, the initiative launched by the CFPB in 2012 for facilitating innovation in consumer financial products and services.

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CFPB proposes revisions to trial disclosure policy

CFPB Monitor

The proposal follows Acting Director Mulvaney’s July 2019 appointment of Paul Watkins to serve as Director of the Bureau’s Office of Innovation. Currently, Arizona is the only state that has enacted a “sandbox.”). The proposal would list the features that the Bureau would want such agreements to contain.