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Fintechs Face Difficult Regulatory Realities on Charters

Bank Innovation

WASHINGTON, D.C. Fintechs are having trouble facing reality when it comes to obtaining bank charters, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams and Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting said here at the FDIC’s Fintech and the Future of Banking conference on Wednesday.

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OCC’s FinTech Charter’s Uncharted Legal Seas

PYMNTS

By way of example, FinTechs must cobble together money transmitter licenses from each state in which they operate. And in effect, these tech-savvy upstarts would have been able to act like banks, operating as banks do, to take deposits and make loans. Can’t get the charter without FDIC coverage.

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MOXY Preps Launch Of New Community Bank With NYMBUS

PYMNTS

Following approval by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Washington, D.C.’s ” The bank is gearing up to launch operations with a focus on under-banked customers and customer relationship building. MOXY bank , preparing to be one of the first new community banks to launch in the U.S.

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Hill Country And The Social Complexity Of Going Cashless

PYMNTS

In the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington D.C., In so doing, it launched itself into a debate that is unfolding in both its home city of Washington D.C. and nationwide about whether cashless operation is discriminatory. About 30 percent of the population of Washington D.C.

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FDIC Cuts Budget by 2.4% After Receivership Costs Drop

American Banker

WASHINGTON – Due to its declining receivership responsibilities, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday that it will again reduce its operating budget for fiscal year 2017.

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Is Your Contemplated Bank Merger Anti-Competitive?

Jeff For Banks

If these are triggered, off to Washington the merger application goes. What I would suggest to regulators in contemplating change is to have FDIC and NCUA insured financial institutions report deposits by geography, such as Zip code, and break it down further between business and consumer.

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New CRA Guidance Promotes Use of Alternative Data in Lending

FICO

The potential of alternative data in consumer lending decisions continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C., Adopted in 1977, the CRA is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

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