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OCC approves national bank charter applications of fintech company

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as a full service national bank headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. SoFi Technologies, has applied to the Federal Reserve to become a bank holding company and therefore subject to consolidated supervision. The OCC announced this week that it has conditionally approved applications from Social Finance Inc.

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Varo Is First FinTech to Receive Full-Service Charter from the OCC

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Acting Comptroller Brooks stated that Varo Bank’s full-service charter, the first granted by the OCC to a consumer fintech, “represents the evolution of banking and a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology intended to empower consumers and businesses.”. The water’s fine!”. Varo Bank, N.A.’s

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OppFi files complaint to block “true lender” challenge by California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

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The complaint recites that prior to 2019, the Bank entered into a contractual arrangement with OppFi (Program) pursuant to which the Bank uses OppFi’s technology platform to make small-dollar loans to consumers throughout the United States (Program Loans). Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Colorado.

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California court rejects OppFi’s attempt to block DFPI’s “true lender” challenge to loans made through bank partnership

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OppFi’s complaint recites that prior to 2019, the Bank entered into a contractual arrangement with OppFi (Program) pursuant to which the Bank uses OppFi’s technology platform to make small-dollar loans to consumers throughout the United States (Program Loans). Rather, the focus here is on the identity of the lender in the primary market.

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Bankers Tell Me Their Top Industry Game Changers

Jeff For Banks

I teach Bank Profitability for the Washington, Utah, and Montana Bankers'' Associations EDP programs. Utah has many Industrial Loan Companies (ILC''s), which are FDIC supervised financial institutions that can be owned by commercial firms not regulated by a federal banking agency, like a utility company.