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CFPB Names Paul Watkins From AZ AG Office As Innovation Head

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that Paul Watkins, a lawyer, will lead the agency’s newly created Office of Innovation. “I The Office of Innovation was recently created by Mulvaney to focus on a new priority for the agency: encouraging consumer-friendly innovation.

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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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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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Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, discusses final innovation policies in Ballard Spahr webinar

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Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, joined Ballard Spahr partners Alan Kaplinsky and James Kim yesterday for a discussion of the CFPB’s final innovation policies. Both Alan and James praised the Bureau’s efforts under its new leadership, with Alan referring to them as “refreshing.”).

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2024: A Race to Perform … and Earn the Right to Transform 

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Early this week, the conference was the epicenter of discussions, where 2,000 attendees descended upon Arizona to strategize and set the tone for our great industry’s future. Concerns about successors to today’s executive leadership teams dominated many presentations.

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Bright Paths Students Demonstrate New Skills with Incredible Variety of Apps

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Technology Stack: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, ForeignKeys, Jinja | APIs Used: Used data from “California regulations of possibly harmful products”, which was a CSV file. Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship.

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CFPB proposes revisions to trial disclosure policy

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The proposal follows Acting Director Mulvaney’s July 2019 appointment of Paul Watkins to serve as Director of the Bureau’s Office of Innovation. There can be no predicate for an enforcement action by such a regulator that is based on a statutory or regulatory provisions waived by the Bureau.