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State Bank Regs File Suit To Block OCC’s Bank Charter

PYMNTS

More legal troubles have emerged for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over its plan to introduce national bank charters for FinTechs, aimed at making it easier for alternative financial services players to do business. Reports in Reuters on Thursday (Oct. Reports in Reuters on Thursday (Oct. The body of U.S.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

BTCjam, a P2P marketplace launched in 2012 to borrow and lend using bitcoin, announced the company has made “the difficult decision” to close up shop, according to multiple news sources. Title: Fintech ‘Plastc’ Shuts Down After Cancelling All 80,000 Pre Orders. -Kyle Hill, HomeCare CEO. Title: BTCjam Sets Closing Date. Product: BTCJam.

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Fans and Foes of OCC True Lender Rule Spar at Senate Committee “Rent-a-Bank” Hearing

CFPB Monitor

Since the non-bank entity frequently is a fintech, these arrangements often are referred to as bank-fintech partnerships or marketplace lending arrangements. These speakers consistently conflated payday lending and bank-fintech partnership lending, and ignored correction of this mis-characterization by other witnesses.