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Varo Achieves Milestone AsĀ First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

PYMNTS

Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. As a national charter, the bank can offer credit and cash-flow management, the company said. On Friday (July 31), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced Varo Bank has been granted its full-service national bank charter. Varo Bank N.A.

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OCC outlines risk plan as Northeastern loan growth doubles

Abrigo

Multifamily, commercial and automotive loans are driving loan growth among banks in the Northeast, but increasing risk will draw fresh attention from regulators to ensure recent and future growth is sound, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said recently. • Liquidity risk management and adequacy of contingency funding plans.

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

PYMNTS

Nowhere does that ring truer than in the nascent and growing legal cannabis industry, where billions of dollars flow the old-fashioned way ā€” hand to hand, because of the clash between federal and state regulations over its legality. Itā€™s about small business loans, mortgages for facilities, and funding for capital improvements.

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Strategic Insight Buys BrightScope for Reported $35+ Million

Fintech Labs Insights

But RIABiz reports that the acquisition was financed by Genstar Capital and notes “outside sources peg the deal at $35 to $40 million.” We are excited by the opportunity to add retirement data to our portfolio and accelerate our commitment to the asset management industry.” Germany, and Canada.

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. HQ: Shelton, Connecticut. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . Credit risk management. Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4

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What Shiny New Life Insurance Startups Can Learn From My Mistakes

Tech and Finance

Today, the ecosystem of startups, venture capital, reinsurers, and other players thinking about how to disrupt insurance is exploding. Entrepreneurs resolved to tackle financial services, and life insurance specifically, need to be prepared for a different way of doing things and for the challenges that come with highly regulated industries.