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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

PYMNTS

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). The headquarters will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Square launched its campaign to open a bank more than two years ago.

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FDIC's unusual order against tiny Utah bank: Sell yourself or liquidate

American Banker

The FDIC's public rebuke against it indicates a last-ditch effort to figure out a less messy solution than receivership. One of the smallest banks in the country hasn't consistently made a profit since 2007 and has been the subject of enforcement actions.

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A Utah bank is gone after 16 years of losses. Why did it survive so long?

American Banker

Experts criticized the FDIC for allowing the bank's demise to play out in slow motion. Liberty Bank in Salt Lake City had been "structurally unprofitable" since 2008, according to its regulators.

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Japanese FinTech Rakuten Applying For US Banking Charter 

PYMNTS

FDIC) and the state of Utah for an industrial loan company (ILC) charter. The bank would be headquartered in Utah and could handle users’ deposits, according to Lee Carter, Rakuten head of banking and potential ILC CEO. We’ll have specific goals for community service and investments back into the community.”.

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Utah de novo gets conditional OK from FDIC

American Banker

Organizers of Bank of St. George still need to raise $18 million before opening.

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Banks Fighting SoFi’s Banking Charter

PYMNTS

The Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group representing about 6,000 small banks holding almost $5T in assets, is lining up against SoFi, urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reject its application to launch a banking unit. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.

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OCC approves national bank charter applications of fintech company

CFPB Monitor

as a full service national bank headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. In its press release announcing the withdrawal, the OCC stated that Figure Technologies had amended its charter application for Figure Bank, National Association, to offer FDIC-insured deposit accounts.