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. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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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

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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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Well, Gonzobankers, the smart, idealist and self-declared revolutionary crypto kids just bought themselves a future of regulation — intricate, overbearing, and frustrating regulation, and regulation that the market will now demand. Welcome to adulthood, y’all. What’s Next? But please, don’t get cocky.

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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. That comes as Open Banking bowed in Europe last month.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The Bank of England’s (BoE) Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has laid down a set of strict rules that Facebook’s Libra and other cryptocurrencies must follow in order to do business in Britain, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Oct. The terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch. “The

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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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Celent Banking

JANUARY 26, 2017

The timing is also interesting, as only two weeks ago outgoing President Obama’s National Economic Council (NEC) released a new whitepaper called A Framework for FinTech. The NEC, a policy advisory unit of the White House established in 1993, proposed 10 high-level principles designed to move the US fintech industry forward.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It would instead offer payment companies a national servicing platform to replace the regime of state regulations such firms would be subject to under existing laws. Commercial companies accessing a payments charter would avoid oversight and regulations that protect the financial system and consumers,” the bank industry leaders wrote.

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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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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As community banks continue to innovate—a task that has only become more important since the COVID-19 pandemic began—regulators play two key roles in that process, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols said during a virtual industry event today.

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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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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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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 15, 2018

Last week the CFPB announced an initiative to create a Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) with 11 other financial regulators and related organizations across the globe. Commenters can submit responses to the Bureau’s representative, Paul Watkins in the recently-established Bureau’s Office of Innovation.

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Abrigo

MARCH 7, 2022

Experts weigh in on regulatory hot topics for 2022 Review these 10 insights into what regulators are looking for in 2022 to help your financial institution pass exams with flying colors. Takeaway 1 Regulators have increased their focus on BSA in the first quarter of 2022, and the crisis in Ukraine will put OFAC in the spotlight.

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Abrigo

MARCH 11, 2022

Expert insights on 10 regulatory topics that NBFIs should consider this year Review this list of what regulators are looking for in 2022 to help your NBFI pass exams with flying colors. Takeaway 3 NBFIs should review common deficiencies in AML programs that regulators are citing and fix issues before their next audit or exam.

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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. Even so, the retail framework has been in draft and still needs to find a regulator – and people must be trained as well. But that could potentially change.

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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. Staying Updated.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Regulators need to understand the pressures that banks face to innovate and support those efforts, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams said today. The post McWilliams: Regulators Need to Support Bank Innovation Efforts appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The CFPB and the Colorado AG’s Office have announced they will hold joint virtual office hours as part of the American Consumer Financial Innovation Network (ACFIN). ACFIN is a network of federal and state regulators that may include state attorneys general, state financial regulators, and federal financial regulators.

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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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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2020

The CFPB and Utah AG’s Office have announced that they will hold the first joint office hours as part of the American Consumer Financial Innovation Network (ACFIN). ACFIN is a network of federal and state regulators that may include state attorneys general, state financial regulators, and federal financial regulators.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

and Europe is a natural progression from the surge in FinTech solutions offered to consumers, small businesses and enterprises. and Canada, where open banking regulations are not in place, how do financial service providers act on the demand to move data and connect platforms? But in jurisdictions like the U.S. ”

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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 24, 2020

The country’s government and regulators are keeping pace with those in the European Union and the U.S. as they upgrade their online data and financial rules to support global digital banking innovations. Confronting the Chinese Privacy Myth . In China, there is [an] ever-shifting gray line,” Chorzempa said. The law is still ambiguous.

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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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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 10, 2016

titled: “ How to make fintech work for all Americans.” Brookings describes the event as “a conversation about the effects of the fintech boom, with a particular focus on how regulation and public policy can enhance or hinder the industry’s ability to solve some of the more intractable problems facing middle-class.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

In art, form follows function, while in technology, progress follows policy. According to the Financial Times , a position paper that emerged from the Forum states that there is nothing less than an “urgent need” for assurance that innovation will not threaten “systemic stability.” The alternative is to innovate into better margins.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The report focuses on fintech and other new entrant “non-incumbent” non-banks that are directly involved in providing digital financial products and services in the core consumer finance markets of deposits, payments, and credit.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Back then, FinTechs asked for forgiveness instead of permission, rushing headlong into markets, disrupting them and operating in newly invented spheres of finance that regulators barely understood. The party always ends, however, and governments have caught up to all that wild innovation. Now, they’re laying down the law.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The BCFP has issued proposed revisions to its 2016 final policy on issuing “no-action” letters (NAL), together with a proposal to create a new “BCFP 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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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry, Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has introduced the “ Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016 ,” which is intended to provide a streamlined regulatory process for innovative fintech products and greater certainty about compliance requirements.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Published reports indicate that China’s central bank and banking, securities and foreign-exchange regulators summoned Ant Group executives this past weekend to discuss official concerns about the firm. Any FinTech disruptor, when it becomes so big, represents systemic risk,” he told Webster. “In Reuters quoted central bank Vice Gov.

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