CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Tomorrow, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion will hold a hearing entitled “Fostering Financial Innovation: How Agencies Can Leverage Technology to Shape the Future of Financial Services.” The witnesses will be: Valerie A. Continue Reading

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, joined Ballard Spahr partners Alan Kaplinsky and James Kim yesterday for a discussion of the CFPB’s final innovation policies. Alan leads the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and James is a co-leader of the firm’s inter-disciplinary Fintech Team.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In this podcast, Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation, joins us to discuss the CFPB’s final trial disclosures, no-action letter, and FinTech sandbox policies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, Grab Financial Group said it has raised $300 million in a funding round, while the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) is introducing an open banking policy. Grab Financial Group, a Southeast Asian FinTech, said it notched $300 million in a funding round.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The provision of licenses to several players will help support innovation and competition as all parties work to increase their customer base,” Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele said in a speech in Abuja on Friday. FinTech is helping to transform daily consumer life in Nigeria and other developing markets.

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Bank makes clear it’s not the opinions of the institution … The post Could central bank digital currencies kill monetary policy? Not a consumer bank of course – none of those blog – but a good old central bank. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Getting bogged down in a maze or taking unnecessary risks — the current climate for FinTech in the United States often leaves players with only those two stark choices, according to Bruce Parker, founder and CEO of Modo , which describes itself as a “cloud-based utility” that enables payment system interoperability. FinTech Improvements.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that Paul Watkins, a lawyer, will lead the agency’s newly created Office of Innovation. “I The Office of Innovation was recently created by Mulvaney to focus on a new priority for the agency: encouraging consumer-friendly innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

And one question worth posing is: What will happen to FinTech ? Specifically, what will happen to London’s standing as a FinTech hub? The city has long been known as a financial center (especially in Europe) and more recently as FinTech. But one clue as to how FinTech may fare is where the talent goes. and to the EU.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While AOBA 2022 had its share of execs wanting to “fake it until they make it” with future innovation, credit is due to the bankers who are pouring real financial investment into new fintech experiments. COVID may have accelerated things, but talk of booster shots and workplace policies wasn’t the most striking contrast at AOBA 2022.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Emburse Cards come integrated with spend policy controls, the company noted, and are looped to a platform allowing for professionals to create physical and virtual cards for employees. Spend management FinTech Pleo has rolled out a new platform for users' mobile devices aimed at consolidating data from spend on Pleo credit cards.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 25, 2019

Linda Lacewell, the recently confirmed Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services , detailed in a recent interview that she will prioritize fintech and consumer protection. These changes indicate that NYDFS will compete with the FTC and the CFPB to be the leading regulator in the fintech space.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., as well as the launch of the Flex by Finaxar initiative from Finaxar.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

7) a new alliance aimed at encouraging the growth of FinTechs. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the new alliance – dubbed the Global Financial Innovation Network – is part of the FCA’s aim to create a global sandbox that will allow companies to test innovative products with regulatory authorities on a temporary basis.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The GAO said it had seen — through interviews with 11 FinTech firms — loan volume grow by sevenfold, while collaborative efforts with banks continued to grow from 2013 to 2017. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Last week, the CFPB finalized its proposed revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter policies and also finalized its proposal to create a new FinTech sandbox policy. The webinar, “The CFPB’s Final Innovation Policies: What You Need to Know,” will be held on October 1, 2019 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

This is designed to promote competition and innovation by supporting new entrants into the marketplace,” Nanopay CEO Laurence Cooke told PYMNTS.com in an interview. In essence, these potential policy changes could go hand-in-hand, creating new categories of payment service providers. But that could potentially change.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Southeast Asia is now front and center on the world’s FinTech stage, and it’s no accident. Regulatory efforts to promote FinTech innovation, a bustling climate for blockchain and interest from other markets eyeing the region for expansion have all led to Southeast Asia’s impressive standing in this space.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 3, 2019

Our guest for this week’s podcast is Paul Watkins, Director of the CFPB’s Office of Innovation. The Office has taken over the Bureau’s work that was formerly done under Project Catalyst, the initiative launched by the CFPB in 2012 for facilitating innovation in consumer financial products and services.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Earny automatically monitors for and claims refunds on past purchases through retailer and credit card price protection policies. EXCLUSIVE – The payment protection app Earny announced today it has raised $9 million and wants to use the funds to diversify into the travel vertical. Based in Santa Monica, Calif.,

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American Banker

JANUARY 27, 2020

An outside paper identifies the statutes, regulations and other bureaucratic realities complicating the banking agencies’ efforts to oversee and benefit from rapidly changing technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2017

On Monday (March 6), CFPB Director Richard Cordray presented at the LendIt USA Conference, providing attendees with an overview of where the bureau stands on FinTech innovation. We are learning about what does and does not work for consumers and the potential challenges facing entrepreneurs and investors,” Cordray said.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The CFPB is proposing significant revisions to its “Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs” (TDP Policy), which sets forth the Bureau’s standards and procedures for exempting individual companies, on a case-by-case basis, from applicable federal disclosure requirements to allow those companies to test trial disclosures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The FinTech industry is changing quickly, and the European Commission knows it. By creating a financial technology task force, the Commission said it is responding to the effects of digital innovations changing the banking industry. But we need to monitor changes closely to keep our existing rules fit for purpose.” ”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Globe Telecom’s financial technology division, Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, notched $175 million in additional venture funding in January. Globe Fintech, which is called Mynt, is said to be now looking for more funding — and aiming to get a valuation in excess of $1 billion.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It should offer some form of guidance to spur innovation, a former official with the bureau says.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The BCPF has issued proposed revisions to its 2016 final policy on issuing “no-action” letters (NAL), together with a proposal to create a new “BCPF Product Sandbox.” Proposed NAL policy revisions. The revisions are intended to address the 2016 policy’s many shortcomings. The proposal would remove such statements.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Regulatory News, of the Global Type. of India.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

The government program set a new policy in July 2017 with the intention to inject more innovation and fresh competition into the UK’s payment systems. TransferWise, the money transfer company valued at over $1 billion dollars, today became the first non-bank direct member of the UK’s Faster Payment Scheme.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 22, 2019

This Wednesday April 24th, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative will host a conference titled “ Fintech and the Future of Banking ” in Arlington, Virginia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 9, 2016

While the CFPB has indicated it will be monitoring FinTech innovations, it has not yet held a public event devoted to FinTech or financial innovation. on December 2, 2016. ” Attendance at the conference is by invitation only.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

” In September 2018, the Bureau proposed significant revisions to its “Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs” which sets forth the Bureau’s standards and procedures for exempting individual companies, on a case-by-case basis, from applicable federal disclosure requirements to allow those companies to test trial disclosures.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Co-signed by the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute, Independent Community Bankers of America and The Clearing House, the letter argues that banks and non-bank technology firms are both already embracing innovation in customer service offerings. FDIC), the states and the courts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Major cities in Europe may not be the only ones after London’s FinTech crown. A new reported from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) stated that Singapore’s fast-growing and lucrative FinTech sector is standing out as many larger rivals around the world are impacted by regulatory challenges and political turmoil.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 25, 2022

The CFPB announced earlier this week that as part of a new approach to innovation in consumer finance, it is replacing its Office of Innovation and Operation Catalyst with a new office, the Office of Competition and Innovation, and eliminating its No Action Letter (NAL) and Compliance Assistance Sandbox (CAS) programs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Once less than friends with FinTechs, it looks like big banks are warming to the concept of collaboration with the relatively nimbler tech upstarts. We are proud to partner with Premier Community Bank to bring automation and payment innovation to their large and growing HOA customer base in central Florida.”.

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