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Varo Achieves Milestone As First Consumer FinTech To Get National Charter

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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. Department of the Treasury that charters and regulates financial institutions. Varo is the first consumer FinTech to receive a new national bank charter from the U.S. million.

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Regulators Want Answers From Uber Over Hidden Hack

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Ride-hailing app company Uber, which made news when it covered up a huge data breach that exposed roughly 600,000 driver’s license numbers, could face investigations by regulators around the globe. 22), regulators in the U.K., s National Cyber Security Centre to determine how large the breach was and how many people in the U.K.

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Accounting About-Face

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She explained why lawmakers should exempt community banks from Basel III capital rule. To their credit, federal regulators have already showed they are on board with the approach laid out in FASB’s final standard. Connecticut headquarters. is ICBA’s vice president of accounting and capital policy. By James Kendrick.

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

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

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