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California Dept. of Business Oversight launches “true lender” investigation of auto title lender’s partnership with Utah bank

CFPB Monitor

The DBO indicated that it “is investigating whether LoanMart’s role in the arrangement is so extensive as to require compliance with California’s lending laws. While several states oppose the preemption of state usury laws in the context of bank/nonbank partnerships, federal banking regulators have taken a different stance.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. What caused a dot-com bubble?

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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

PYMNTS

B2B: The trillion dollar industry that gets overshadowed in innovation by consumer gee-wizardry tech, B2B is gaining more attention by the day. Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year. Just sayin’.

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The Fastest Path To Faster Payments In The US

PYMNTS

Yes, the former is getting easier thanks to mobile remote deposit — even for the financially disadvantaged — thanks to innovators who are leveraging that technology and the near ubiquity of mobile phones. The rest was related to bill payment, payday lending and remittances). Of that $106 billion, $58.3 billion in money orders and $5.4

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Efficiency now: 8 smart strategy tips

Independent Banker

Regulators made no bones about the fact that a number of additional rate hikes are likely to happen this year. The regulators keep hammering banks, saying, ‘Remember this, and don’t do that,’” he says. Often, these bankers rose to the occasion by employing tech solutions or other innovative approaches. Play the long game.

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FinovateFall 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

An industry leader in lending and benchmarking solutions for financial institutions. YUKKA Lab AG detects market sentiments and transforms them into innovative tools for the finance and communications industry. A leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services.

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California lawmakers urge FDIC to rein in bank partnerships

CFPB Monitor

The letter explains that although states have tools for going after these lending arrangements, such tools are more costly to employ and less likely to be effective than typical enforcement authorities provided to state financial regulators. Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Colorado.

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