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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, Inc.

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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. The lawsuit, like previous CSBS lawsuits, challenged the OCC’s authority to issue special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to non-depository fintech companies or to uninsured deposit-taking fintechs.

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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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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. All industrial banks are chartered in Utah – and there are only 17 such charters issued, 15 of which are currently active.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank. You tell us.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Get the full report. How Stripe makes money

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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle

Lex Sokolin

This generated a good $6 billion of revenue in 2016, though that number is likely further compressed given attempts at regulating this sector. It doesn’t have an ILC charter from Utah, or a crypto bank charter from Wyoming, or a straight-up bank charter like Varo, nor has it acquired any banks like Lending Club or Jiko. No shenanigans.

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