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BBVA To Close Simple, Move Customers Over To BBVA USA

PYMNTS

Talk Android posts a letter from the company in which it says there will be "no immediate impact" to accounts and that users don't need to do anything right now, with their funds housed in FDIC insured accounts with BBVA. And, the company says it wants to make the transition "as smooth as possible" for customers.

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Square Will Reapply for Banking License with the FDIC After Last Week’s Withdrawal

Bank Innovation

It plans to reapply with the FDIC, but did not reveal […]. Payment processor Square has withdrawn its application to become a deposit-taking bank, a move similar to online lender Social Finance or SoFi, which withdrew its application last fall.

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Another Maryland threat to bank partner model lending

CFPB Monitor

According to the factual allegations in the OCFR’s Charge Letter : The Bank offers in-store retail credit financing as well as store-branded credit cards to Maryland consumers. Atlanticus/Fortiva performs all of the collections, servicing, payment and remittance operations in connection with the accounts.

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FinTech Step Aims To Create The Concept Of ‘Family Banking’

PYMNTS

The teenager with a Fortnite habit who manages to clean out Dad’s checking account via the debit card linked to the gaming account. The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. 2021 And Beyond.

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Preparing your financial institution to manage loan workouts, loan modifications

Abrigo

Overall, FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions aren’t seeing dramatic increases in net charge-offs ( Chart 1 ) or rates related to declining asset quality ( Chart 2 ), such as past-due rates and rates for non-current loans. The only real deterioration we're starting to see is in subprime auto and credit card portfolios.”

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In Banking, The Line Between SMB And Consumer Can Blur

PYMNTS

In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized : firms are often considered too small to be profitable for banks’ corporate services units and are therefore pushed into an FI’s consumer banking operations.

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SoFi Officially Files For A Bank Charter Of Its Own

PYMNTS

Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Instead, SoFi as a bank will exist so it can “provide its customers an FDIC insured NOW account and a credit card product. SoFi has confirmed the news.

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