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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 bank will also provide a fully digital, mobile-first national lending platform for consumers across the country. The OCC announced this week that it has conditionally approved applications from Social Finance Inc.

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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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California probes potential violation of new rate-cap law

American Banker

The state's financial regulator sent a subpoena to an auto-title lender seeking information about its partnership with a Utah bank, marking the first public disclosure of an investigation into efforts to evade a 2019 law capping interest rates on many consumer loans.

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. In other words, be a General Bank. Seems risky.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Like how does that play into our communities? 82% to over 2.3% Inspirational? You tell us.

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

CB Insights

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Business lending and corporate cards. This process also comes with hurdles like regulations, fees, compliance standards, and payment card issuers — all of which become increasingly complex for international transactions.

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

Lex Sokolin

Instead, it is replacing payday lending as an industry. This generated a good $6 billion of revenue in 2016, though that number is likely further compressed given attempts at regulating this sector. lending/trading/saving), and are computing concurrently on a giant programmable blockchain network. billion valuation.

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