CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 12, 2021

The California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) became effective on January 1, 2021. The CCFPL gives the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) (the new name given to the state’s Department of Business Oversight) broad jurisdiction and sweeping new authorities that closely resemble those of the CFPB.

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Exercises California Innovation Financial Technology 127

CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

When the bill becomes law, the DBO will be renamed the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) and the agency will gain the authority to enforce all California laws relating to “persons offering or providing consumer financial products or services in [the] state.” DBO: New Name, Expanded Powers.

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California Innovation Regulation Report 78

Insights on Business

JULY 20, 2017

The emergence of financial technology (fintech) and the push of regulators for more competition are disaggregating and open this closed value chain. It used our cloud platform to create a “developer hub” that is offered to fintech as a platform for innovation. Open banking is here, and it is far from being a compliance exercise.

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Fintech Mobile Examples Data 181

Tech and Finance

JUNE 14, 2018

I publish occasionally at the Articulate Communications blog on issues of financial technology, banking and associated public relations and marketing topics. In the past I have written about design thinking, how to avoid bank PR-speak and whether banking and innovation belong in the same sentence.

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Survey Millennials Fraud Mobile 28

Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The SEC, OCC and CFTC have been generally more cautious not to step on financial technology innovation. To what type of organism is a permissionless, open source, programmable financial ecosystem most uncomfortable? To what type of technologist is decentralized technology a risk? Why does this bill exist?

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Regulation US System Operations 52

Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The SEC, OCC and CFTC have been generally more cautious not to step on financial technology innovation. To what type of organism is a permissionless, open source, programmable financial ecosystem most uncomfortable? To what type of technologist is decentralized technology a risk? Why does this bill exist?

Regulation 52

Regulation US System Operations 52