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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Comptroller of the Currency said the agency will roll out a new framework for regulating marketplace lending. Comptroller Thomas Curry, speaking at an industry conference, said the agency may grant limited charters to FinTech companies.

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MAY 3, 2019

Regulators from New York got the nod from a judge to move forward with their lawsuit aimed at stopping FinTechs from offering banking services on a national level. Regulators in New York want to prevent federal government agencies from granting FinTechs national licenses enabling them to loan and send money like a bank.

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JULY 11, 2022

Here are critical facts to know about some of the most popular BNPL service platforms: Afterpay: Afterpay was founded in Australia in 2014 but was acquired by fintech Square earlier this year. When deciding whether to use a BNPL service for a purchase, it is essential to read the fine print. According to Kristen E.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Currently, these businesses are finding funding sources such as Small Business Administration loans, equipment financing loans, or other lines of credit from fintechs and niche players in the market like American Express, PayPal, Mercury, Blue Vine and OnDeck.

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JULY 31, 2019

China’s banking regulation is in-flux. As watchdogs ramp up oversight of financial institutions and FinTechs, late last year the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission also announced plans to relax restrictions on foreign ownership of banks operating in the country.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Heightening efforts among policymakers across the globe to expand customer protections in the financial services (FinServ) space have largely left small business (SMB) banking and lending untouched. rejected the Treasury Select Committee ‘s regulations to introduce stricter small business borrower protections for the banking industry.

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JULY 22, 2016

It feels like 2014 again with the ongoing popularity of alternative lending startups. It’s even more surprising given that 2016 could be the year that regulation begins to really kick in for these lenders — in the U.S., Alternative Lending. Find out how the more than $26.5 MarketInvoice. million funding round. ezyCollect.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

To challenge the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s decision to allow online payment companies and lenders to have national bank charters, the top banking regulator in New York is suing the federal government. A bill signed by Governor Andrew M.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The House committee held a hearing on the idea after Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks in July proposed a new special purpose national banking charter for payments companies. The agency first proposed a special banking charter for FinTechs in 2014 that would limit pushback from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Singapore Signs On With FinTech Firms. In Singapore, news came this week that the country will open up its real-time payment system to FinTech firms. The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets. In The Middle East.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, Dave Gilbert, founder and chief executive officer of SMB alternative lending firm National Funding , said he’s seen a trend of growing traction within the small business community. In its report, S&P found nearly 50 percent of SMB borrowers are too unfamiliar with digital lenders to use alternative finance.

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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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JULY 17, 2018

The movement toward linkups between traditional financial institutions (FI) and FinTech firms seems an inexorable one — in the cross-selling of corporate services into consumer bases that embrace individuals and, typically, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, looking elsewhere beyond U.S.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Lights out for the FinTech charter idea? The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) debuted a special purpose charter in 2016 that would have given FinTechs a leg up on competing with traditional financial services companies. Regulation, Law and Going Forward. In our view, then, it’s a case of Catch 22.

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JULY 9, 2020

As envisioned, the payments charter would replace the state-by-state money transmitter licensing approach currently used by many non-bank payment processors and FinTechs. As envisioned, the payments charter would replace the state-by-state money transmitter licensing approach currently used by many non-bank payment processors and FinTechs.

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JUNE 4, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said this past week that it is linking up with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, eyeing a regulatory sandbox for FinTech firms. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) says that it has warned some financial companies that they should modify lending terms.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

The guiding ethos of fintech (and really any industry portmanteau ending in ‘tech’) is move fast and break things. The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And when fintechs and challenger banks aren’t constrained by regulation (as they mostly are in the U.S. and China).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The dispute over the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ‘s (OCC’s) national bank charter, which became available to FinTech firms last year, has reportedly caused technology conglomerates to shy away from a tool that aims to provide nonbank firms with a more streamlined way to operate on a national level.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Speaking in front of the LendIt conference in New York yesterday (March 6), Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Murray told those assembled that the oversight body will go forward with plans to offer banking charters to fintech companies. Murray disagrees. That’s wrong. Nor is the OCC “somehow mixing banking and commerce,” says Murray.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

federal district court to stop the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) from issuing special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. The new lawsuits were filed in response to the OCC’s July 2018 announcement that it would begin accepting applications for SPNB charters from fintech companies.

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JUNE 10, 2016

As a general rule, most startups aren’t too happy when the regulator comes around, and it is rarely indicative of good news. And while that is bad news for a startup like Uber, as it turns out, instinctive fear of the regulator is not an endemic condition among startups. On some level, Circle’s move seems strange.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

I am pleased to share with our blog readers that Alan Kaplinsky, who leads our firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group, was recently awarded the National Law Review’s Go-To Thought Leadership Award in Consumer Finance for his work on our blog, Consumer Finance Monitor. We certainly hope that our readers will agree.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The FinTech industry’s future could depend on the outcome of a fight between the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and states, according to a report in TechCrunch. The charter is optional for FinTechs and is aimed at providing a stamp of approval by the OCC for having good compliance practices.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is placing pressure on the nation’s alternative lending space in a notice issued earlier this month, reports said on Friday (Sept. for example, Regulation A+ has come into effect under Title IV of the JOBS Act. In the U.S.,

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APRIL 29, 2019

“Most of the decline [in optimism] was concentrated in assessments of current conditions in the national economy, but future economic prospects remain at the same level as last quarter,” explained University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s Associate Professor Dr. . Beyond the U.S. ,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

Traditional institutions are picking up steam in their efforts to collaborate with alternative financiers and FinTech firms, largely viewed as a way to spin the competition into allies and upgrade their lending services without the burden of in-house R&D. However, the Federal Reserve ‘s latest analysis of the U.S.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

The global financial crisis in 2008 was, in many ways, a catalyst to this innovation, especially in the area of small business (SMB) finance, as banks pulled their services away from SMBs and FinTechs stepped in to offer another option. despite a flurry of concerns over regulations, economic development and more.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Series B round is the largest-ever venture capital investment into an Australian FinTech startup, according to reports. According to AirTree Ventures Managing Partner Craig Blair, the investment round represents “a coming of age in the FinTech sector in Australia.”

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Three months in, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation still stymies some firms seeking to comply with new rules and regulations governing data protection and privacy. FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters. Might a floodgate be opened — if only one were to open the floodgates? Japan Eyes Cryptos, Yet Again.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

5) hearing before the House Financial Services Committee , representatives from several consumer groups said “rent-a-bank” schemes harm consumers through predatory lending. She said the evasion would continue unless regulators step in or there is action by Congress to limit interest rates to no more than 36 percent APR.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

With big banks pulling back from small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending in the wake of the global financial crisis, the market was ripe for someone else to fill the credit gap. Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

For weeks the FinTech industry has been managing fears and anxieties over the future of the novel alternative finance space. Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Alternative Lending. alternative lending space this week, too.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) announced last week that it has agreed to implement 14 recommendations made by its Fintech Industry Advisory Panel (Advisory Panel). It has 33 fintech company members that engage with the CSBS Emerging Payments and Innovation Task Force and other state regulators.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2019

federal district court in October 2018 by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) to stop the OCC from issuing special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. Nothing in the NBA identifies deposit-taking as an indispensable function for a national bank to be engaged in the “business of banking.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena. Lukies said the balance of regulatory trust has altered, ushering in a wave of regulations like open banking , PSD2 and GDPR. Banks Let Themselves Get Left Behind.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The favored narrative about banks and FinTech startups is generally not a love story. Of course, banks have to be run with safety and soundness to protect those deposits, but they also have myriad public mandates, like fair lending, anti-money laundering and customer privacy. Usually, it is more of an all-out war story.

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