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CFPB and Colorado Attorney General announce joint virtual office hours as part of AFCIN

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB announced ACFIN’ s creation last year, in conjunction with finalizing revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter policies and its proposal to create a new fintech sandbox policy. Requests must be received by November 23, 2020. .

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CFPB and Utah AG announce joint office hours in Salt Lake City as part of ACFIN

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB announced ACFIN’s creation last September, in conjunction with finalizing revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter policies and its proposal to create a new fintech sandbox policy.

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Banks Fighting SoFi’s Banking Charter

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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. We want these FinTech companies to be subject to the same kind of regulations as banks are,” said Mr Cole of the ICBA.

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Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, discusses final innovation policies in Ballard Spahr webinar

CFPB Monitor

Alan leads the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and James is a co-leader of the firm’s inter-disciplinary Fintech Team. Last month, the CFPB finalized its proposed revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter (NAL) policies and also finalized its proposal to create a new FinTech sandbox policy.

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Wells Fargo’s Q2 Disappoints After Scandals

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Wells Fargo also announced plans to sell 52 branches in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and parts of Wisconsin to Flagstar Bancorp. The bank has been in recovery mode in recent months, as federal regulators launched a series of investigations into consumer and commercial practices at the lender. . After the investigations began another 1.4

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Is your 2017 trade show strategy set for the year?

William Mills

There really is no such thing as “trade show season” in the fintech industry. which features highly relevant and timely fireside chats/presentations among a solid mix of bank and fintech attendees. ABA Risk Management Conference , March 26-28 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a must-attend for risk professionals from banks of all sizes.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. A pretty clear-cut sizzle. Costco Card.

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