CFPB Monitor

MARCH 24, 2020

The FDIC has issued a proposed rule setting forth the conditions it would impose and the commitments it would require to approve a deposit insurance application from an industrial bank or industrial loan company (collectively, ILC) whose parent company is not subject to consolidated supervision by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB).

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, the Federal Reserve Board published a paper on partnerships between community banks and fintech companies, “Community Bank Access to Innovation through Partnerships.” The Fed’s publication of the paper is another indication of the increased attention that regulators are paying to bank relationships with fintechs.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 14, 2023

To realize the rewards of the BaaS industry, banks and fintechs are going to have to learn to play by some non-negotiable rules – together. Now, the bank is required to receive FDIC approval for all new third parties and credit products. The FDIC Consent Order is going to impact all partnerships going forward.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The ongoing struggle, supposedly existential in nature, that pits upstart, relatively young FinTech firms against arrogantly complacent banks for supremacy in this new and growing world of digital payments and commerce. And that is a bank – one with FDIC insurance and safeguards that keep their money safe. The subject? Trust in Banks.

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Gonzobanker

MAY 4, 2020

All the capital flowing into the digital fintech space is helping to solve banking industry challenges. As the industry’s appetite for digital technology grows, the capital that’s been flowing into mostly digital-focused fintech is solving real industry challenges right now. operations with a soft landing of customers to Varo.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. More than a half-million users signed on within the first six weeks of operation. Step aims to fill that hole by creating what it calls “family banking services.”

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Fintech Cards FDIC Lending 322

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

announced that it is partnering with Evolve Bank & Trust , an FDIC-insured financial services organization, to offer a full suite of customizable credit, debit, prepaid and DDA products. Founded in 1925, Evolve Bank & Trust operates retail branches throughout the mid-south and mortgage production offices nationwide.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Ternio , a global FinTech platform, has integrated with Plaid , a financial data company, to help Ternio BlockCard bank accounts access faster and more secure connections to financial accounts, according to a press release. customers to activate their FDIC-insured BlockCard bank accounts. dollars between all of their accounts.”.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has gotten the ball rolling for financial technology firms trying to operate a national platform, but the FDIC and Federal Reserve should act to remove other policy roadblocks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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Industry Fintech FDIC Community Bank 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

percent in 2019, its lowest rate in a decade since the FDIC first began tracking this statistic in 2009. Another FDIC report found that 31 percent of American consumers are now using peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile wallet apps, for example. This represents a noted reversal from trends of the past decade.

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Tools Mobile FDIC Examples 203

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

FDIC Approves Square for Banking License. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) granted Square a banking license to operate a de novo industrial bank in Salt Lake City. FinTech leader Fiserv has acquired independent software vendor Bypass Mobile, an innovator in the point-of-sale systems arena.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Axos Bank parent company Axos Financial has rolled out out commercial banking operations across new markets in the U.S., ” Last month Axos announced a partnership with Europe’s digital-only bank N26 in a deal that will allow N26 to launch operations in the U.S. and offer clients FDIC-insured accounts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). FDIC), the states and the courts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

“Time and time again we hear from small businesses that access to capital is the biggest obstacle to growth,” Company.com Chief Operating Officer David Kramer said in the announcement. Yet the FDIC said in previous analysis that the actual volume of traditional bank loans to small businesses in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Without a regulatory mandate, many in the financial services and FinTech space believe that competition will — and already has — nudged the industry toward embracing data integrations across platforms and service providers in the name of better banking experiences. Bank participation is key to promoting open banking in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The company is also reportedly “completely” closing down its Bangalore, India operations. government’s $2 trillion stimulus package allows a number of entities — FDIC banks, credit unions and, most notably for this discussion, FinTechs such as Kabbage — to make loans to smaller firms. staff, which has 500 employees.

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Lending FDIC Fintech Operations 151

PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

But as of 2020, it is a subject upon which seasoned experts can disagree, in a world where traditional banks and FinTechs are operating in parallel in the market – and, in many cases, are offering similar services for consumers. But the FinTechs, Baird noted, are adapting and innovating around that issue. Baird said. “As

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Thereafter, “using its existing lending operations and personnel, LoanMart commenced ‘marketing’ and ‘servicing’ auto title loans purportedly made by CCBank, a small Utah-chartered bank operating out of Provo, Utah.” The FDIC has not yet proposed a similar rule. If adopted, this rule also will almost certainly be challenged.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

In the continued linkups between banks and FinTech upstarts, new markets beckon across various borders. Among the latest examples, N26 , which is a digital-only bank based in Europe, has entered the US market through partnership with Axos Bank in order to offer FDIC insured accounts.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Breaking Banks Breaking Banks , billed as the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show, began in 2013 and is hosted by media firm Provoke.fm. Some recent episode titles: “Secret Sauce for Deeper Relationships & What’s So Nifty About NFTs” and “Fintech Investment and Growth Opportunities.”

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American Banker

OCTOBER 5, 2016

For regulators to develop a unified framework for fintech companies to operate in, they first have to come to a consensus.

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Regulation Fintech Operations Company 76

CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2019

The key passage of the opinion reads: As one instance of the consequential effects of issuing SPNB charters to non-depository fintech companies, the Court notes that such action would entail federal preemption of the state banking regulatory scheme nationwide as it relates to such fintech entities.

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Fintech New York National Regulation 68

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While many digital-first companies springboard from payments into lending, Figure Technologies , a FinTech focused on home improvement, debt consolidation and retirement products that leverage blockchain protocols, is branching out from lending into payments. Blockchain and a bank charter might do much to boost financial inclusion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Open banking jumped onto the financial services scene with a focus on enabling consumer-facing FinTech platforms to connect with their users’ bank account data. The company operates a suite of APIs for financial institutions and FinTechs to connect data and power customer-facing products. Banks, FinTechs Team Up.

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Lending Fintech America Data 102

Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

based banks, fintechs and more, sits on top of a payments rail operated by Payrailz, a digital payments company based in Glastonbury, Conn. Moreover, payments are withdrawn from the user’s FDIC-insured checking account and are protected by multiple layers of security, which prevents fraudster access.

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Community Bank Community Payments Meeting 91

Celent Banking

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The FDIC expresses best the sentiment of worldwide regulators: “A bank’s use of third parties does not relinquish responsibility… but holds it to the same extent as if the activity were handled within the institution." " www.fdic.gov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the world of small business financial services, entrepreneurs’ frustrations with banking have been loudly vocalized : firms are often considered too small to be profitable for banks’ corporate services units and are therefore pushed into an FI’s consumer banking operations. Again, this issue is not isolated to Australia.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Our letter draws on Ballard Spahr’s two-plus decades of experience in representing banks and savings associations (“Banks”) in establishing lending programs (“Bank-Agent Programs”) where a Bank obtains substantial assistance from a fintech or other non-Bank company (an “Agent”) to offer Bank loans to consumers or small businesses.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

With more consumers moving to mobile transactions over visits to branches, some banks are considering closing brick-and-mortar locations to reduce operational costs. The price of real estate is prompting even the largest players in the banking world to scale back their branch operations. Getting in Front of Change. About the Tracker.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

A mix of players, FinTech firms pose threats and opportunities. Call them disruptors, upstarts or the voguish FinTech companies. FinTech customers have no idea they are exposing themselves to identity and financial risk. Illustration by Getty images / Chris Ede. By Kelly Pike. Siphoning customers.

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Community Bank Community Analytics Lending 70

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

We’re seeing a lot of interest from emerging FinTechs and payment companies who really like the physical footprint of the ATM network,” he said. The same FDIC report found that 70 percent of underbanked consumers had access to a smartphone, compared to 40 percent for unbanked respondents.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

More talk about fintech, dinosaur bankers, and flavors of the month. When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. They can be a strategic shift of your franchise, a new product line, or a new operating environment. or Idea Killers? But their animation caught my attention.

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Apple Millennials Massachusetts FDIC 66

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The quickness with which these Wall Street-driven nonbank lenders—variously called peer-to-peer, online marketplace or financial technology (FinTech) lenders—can fulfill borrowers’ requests has enabled alternative lending to double every year since 2010. FDIC-insured deposits largely solve this problem for banks.

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Community Bank Community Lending FDIC 70

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 7, 2020

a wholly-owned subsidiary of fintech Varo Money, Inc. The approved application is for a full-service charter, not the OCC’s controversial FinTech charter that is currently the subject of ongoing litigation. team — the first consumer fintech to receive a national bank charter. The water’s fine!”. Varo Bank, N.A.’s

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Fintech FDIC Utah National 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Meanwhile, operating system upgrades give consumers the benefits of new features on older handsets – for free. FinTechs … and the Banks They Wanted to Disrupt. Instead of banks being afraid of the FinTech bogeyman, it’s now more like the other way around. People want to keep their money in a place that consumers trust.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The report attributes the risk that such schemes will arise to bank/fintech relationships that “lack proper regulatory oversight or principles for responsible lending.”

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Fintech Report Data Lending 78