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Banks Fighting SoFi’s Banking Charter

PYMNTS

The action comes a week after the FDIC announced that digital lender SoFi had applied to the state of Utah for a special banking charter known as an ILC. You don’t have any regulation of the parent company under the Bank Holding Act; that is almost always the reason why companies are setting these [structures] up,” he said.

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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

Another challenge is imposed by the very government that tries to assist LMI households: regulation. The operating cost is largely attributable to the distribution through the branch network and regulation. Since a bank can't cut regulation, they trim their branch network to lower those costs. What does that write-up look like?

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Deposits: Do you want a relationship or fries with that?

Jeff For Banks

Regulators have been particularly harsh to those banks whose business plans call for other-than-traditional deposit acquisition. If your bank has brokered deposits, Internet deposits, jumbo CDs, rewards checking, and in some cases CDARs, a regulator near you may be calling to order you to seek more traditional funding.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #4 Bank of the Ozarks

Jeff For Banks

Last post was dedicated to the #5 Bank, German American Bancorp of Jasper, Indiana (see post here ). What is interesting about the success of Bank of the Ozarks and its CEO is the fact that he wasn''t the "experienced banker" regulators almost insist upon when approving the appointment of bank leadership.

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Pence VP Pick Could Shape Trump's Banking Policy

American Banker

The possible selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as Donald Trump's running mate could clarify the presumptive Republican nominee's banking policy views, adding a policymaker to the ticket who has been outspoken about the Dodd-Frank Act, "too big to fail," and the CFPB.