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PYMNTS
JUNE 13, 2017
Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Officially SoFi is looking for an industrial loan charter under the name SoFi Bank in Utah. SoFi has confirmed the news. The bank will offer no other products and services.”.
CFPB Monitor
MARCH 15, 2022
In 2019, California enacted AB 539 which, effective January 1, 2020, limited the interest rate that can be charged on loans of $2,500 to $10,000 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 20, 2017
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. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.
CFPB Monitor
OCTOBER 6, 2022
As alleged the Commissioner is not attempting to regulate the transfer of loans in the secondary market. Rather, the focus here is on the identity of the lender in the primary market. Unless it settles, it creates a risk to the viability of bank model online lending that is structured like OppFi’s Program.
PYMNTS
JULY 14, 2020
That alternative method of paying for purchases “on credit” got a boost with news this week that Visa Installments , a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, is being rolled out in pilot markets across the U.S. This follows a pilot rollout in Russia last month. The account comes with 1.30 stores for Google Pay and Apple Pay users.
CFPB Monitor
OCTOBER 10, 2019
A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. According to the complaint , Kabbage entered into the scheme with Celtic Bank, a foreign state-chartered bank in Utah, which has no maximum rate limit for commercial loans.
CFPB Monitor
APRIL 19, 2022
OppFi’s complaint alleges that because the Bank and not OppFi is making the Program Loans and the Bank is a state-chartered FDIC-insured bank located in Utah, the Bank is authorized by Section 27(a) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to charge interest on its loans, including loans to California residents, at a rate allowed by Utah law regardless (..)
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