CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 24, 2022

In its press release , the OCC stated that its approval “brings SoFi, a large fintech, inside the federal bank regulatory perimeter, where it will be subject to comprehensive supervision and the full panoply of bank regulations, including the Community Reinvestment Act. In addition, the parent company of SoFi Bank, N.A.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For FinTech firms, doing the chasing all on their own is a losing proposition. SaaS, the distribution model where providers offer a central location for their customers, can offer FinTech firms a way out of inefficient processes, say some supporters. FinTech firms can browse and research what they need and pick it up on the fly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The following Deep Dive explores how these issues are hindering SMB financing as well as how FinTechs are exploring technologies to overcome these issues and give SMBs the help they need to thrive while the world economy faces its biggest challenge in years. FinTechs that harness ML to process loan applications were approving 57.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In FinTech and FI collaborations , borders fall to bits and bytes. On FinTech collaboration writ large, Singapore and Dubai are working together to encourage strides in digital payments and commerce done by mobile means. APIs: Making Inroads.

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PYMNTS

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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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 31, 2021

The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board have issued a guide that is intended to assist community banks in conducting due diligence when considering relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies (Guide). Banks are instructed to reference relevant guidance from the agencies that is listed in a footnote.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From a consumer standpoint, we’ve experienced three giant leaps in the fintech industry. Impact of AI Improved access to financial services One was when ATMs became available, and you didn't have to plan your activities around when banks were open. Let us step back in time and look at the last 50 years. So, what is generative AI?

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2018

bank said it will be switching off access to 24 million customers as the bank restructures itself as required by national regulation. These changes were established by the Bank of England in 2011, and is referred […]. The major U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In reference to the partnership’s advantages, the firms said, is the elimination of manual data entry and accounting. In Africa, the biggest private bank in Kenya, CBA, has cemented a partnership with a FinTech there, Ennovative Capital, a Kenyan firm that licenses software to boost payments speeds.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

They are heavily regulated and require heavy investment,” both in terms of capital and human resources. “It As Owens put it during the PYMNTS podcast discussion, referring to the services that underlie those efforts, “Do you buy it, build it yourself or partner with somebody?” But that’s not the whole story, of course.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

For actions that happened before then but were referred after April, the limit will be raised to £160,000. FinTech news, it was reported that consumers in the U.K. “We have listened carefully to the feedback we have received, and believe our approach is right and will bring benefits to both the consumers and micro-enterprises.”.

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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. The OCC has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in D.C. The OCC’s rule (12 C.F.R. Section 5.20(e)(1))

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two years ago I wrote an article on the 6 biggest trends in FinTech. In a landscape where new technology arises, gets implemented and goes mainstream in a heartbeat, I wanted to cover five of the most impactful trends currently impacting the FinTech industry today: 1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

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Insights on Business

MARCH 5, 2019

Reducing costs but appeasing regulators seems like an oxymoron, yet, many AML compliance and operations leaders are being asked to do just that. The question is, how to do this, while keeping the regulators happy? Even better, regulators have recently begun encouraging the application of these techniques.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 6, 2017

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive. They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2020

One of Britain’s largest banks, Bó had been positioned to compete with FinTechs like Monzo and Revolut. Roughly 11,000 “friends and family” customers will now have a minimum of two months’ notice before their accounts are closed, Rose said, referring to Bó. “Bó Bó was something we were testing and learning from,” she said. “It

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

INTRUST Bank recently announced it is also taking part in the trend of collaborating with FinTechs. In July 2017, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) held a meeting with a group of community bankers which told officials about the competitive pressures they’re facing from FinTechs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At the same time, digital banks are looking to capitalize on their growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) customer base, with open banking and bank-FinTech collaborations an important part of that strategy. Open Banking FinTech Enfuce this week announced a partnership with financial crime and fraud management company Featurespace.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 19, 2022

Regulation Z requires both tips to be included in the finance charge, resulting in APRs on the loans made to Connecticut borrowers ranging from approximately 43% to over 4280%. The loan disclosures stated that the loans had 0% APRs. The Department asserts that it is authorized to assert the UDAAP claim pursuant to Section 1042 of the CFPA.

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CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2019

The OCC also argued that the NYDFS’s claims were untimely because it can no longer challenge the OCC’s long-standing regulation (12 C.F.R. The OCC argued that the NYDFS’ complaint failed to state an APA claim because this regulation is entitled to deference under the U.S. e)(1)) interpreting the term “business of banking” in the NBA.

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BankInovation

JULY 21, 2021

Banks are increasing their use of artificial intelligence-enabled automation, focusing on how to identify and verify customers for onboarding, and AI-powered solutions appear critical to gaining Generation Z customers, says Charley Ma, general manager of fintech at identity decisioning platform provider Alloy, in today’s episode of “The Buzz.” "Gen

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The impact of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) continues to take shape roughly five months after taking effect, and Facebook could be on the hook for billions of dollars in fines tied to a data breach of about 50 million user accounts. Crypto Regulations. community banks and small business lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Specifically, who knows what dangers — for banks, at least — lurk in shadow banking, as FinTechs emerge to nibble at market share? The Question of Regulation. FinTechs the More Immediate Threat? Who knows what dangers lurk in the shadows? financial system amid the rise of alternative lenders. The Lengthening Shadows.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 8, 2017

The smaller banks, credit unions, building societies and FinTech start-ups therefore must rely on just these four banks to get their services through the system and, if those big banks want to play hard-ball, then you just have to roll-over and comply.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

A summary of the main blogs of the week … The Semantic Regulator (#RegTech Rules) A bank has to make a regulatory change every 12 minutes. I guess that’s because there are a lot of FinTech startups focused on the B2B2C structures like Leveris, Thought Machine, Solaris, RailsBank, ClearBank, CBW and more. That’s some task.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Days after Australian alternative lending platform Prospa delayed its Initial Public Offering (IPO) indefinitely, one of its bank partners, Westpac , announced it was ending its relationship with the FinTech. The bank did not reveal how many business borrowers it referred to Prospa under their agreement. ”

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Let's Talk Payments

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The term “transaction rail” typically refers to these well-established, and more importantly, well-regulated settlement and clearance networks. As the banks have been deemed an essential utility, and effectively, as a.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. That is a 100% increase in capital looking for quality fintech assets.

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Lex Sokolin

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The average size is about $300 million, and quite a few are focusing on Fintech and financial services. despite creating the same outcome of a regulated public company. Let’s narrow down the story to Fintech, using data from Spactrack. That is a 100% increase in capital looking for quality fintech assets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Some of those offerings from FinTech firms, such as facial recognition technology, might offer “great hope” for the industry, as noted by Mark Austen, chief executive of that association. community banks hailed some changes to the Dodd-Frank regulations, particularly in regard to how small to medium banks are treated.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 5, 2021

federal district court challenging the OCC’s authority to issue special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to non-depository fintech companies. In the new complaint, CSBS challenges the OCC’s authority to create “a new special-purpose national bank charter for nonbank companies” which it refers to as a “Nonbank Charter.”

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A Year in Financial Models, Fintech Valuations, Super Apps, Big Tech, Decentralized Finance, the Multiverse, Pandemic, Revolution, Crypto Art, and the Nature of the Universe Hi Fintech futurists — You should be out partying! Is Ant Financial the best Fintech in the world? Or rather, you should be inside, partying. Runner up?—?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

But the seismic changes above just as easily refer to Brexit years after the historic 2016 vote marking a thumbs up to a historic divorce. Critics charge that equivalency can be revoked by regulators in Brussels, and that the U.K. A singular event in Europe, a spark, then a conflagration. The legacy of World War I? do not have cards.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2019

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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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 5, 2021

This past Tuesday, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu appeared as a witness at the Senate Banking Committee’s hearing, “ Oversight of Regulators: Does our Financial System Work for Everyone? ”. Hsu testified that the OCC is revisiting bank partnerships in response to Congress’s CRA override of the OCC’s “true lender” rule.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For the bankers we talked with, acknowledging challenges—think NIM, credit, regulation, election uncertainty, unemployment and CRE—while portraying resilience created quite a few compelling narratives throughout the event. Joint presentations between bankers and fintechs abounded, showcasing collaborative initiatives. Five Hundred? (Oh

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