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CFPB announces key leadership changes

CFPB Monitor

On October 30, the CFPB announced changes in two key leadership positions, Assistant Director for the Office of Supervision Policy and Assistant Director for the Office of Enforcement. Salas served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. From 2016 to 2021, Ms.

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New York Community moves to calm investors' nerves. Will it be enough?

American Banker

The regional bank announced a leadership shakeup on Wednesday, capping a tumultuous week in which shareholders became spooked about its exposure to the commercial real estate sector.

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The New Lending Fintech Bonanza

Gonzobanker

It was into this world that the much celebrated digital lending fintech OnDeck recently sold to Enova for $90 million, a virtual fire sale at way under 1X OnDeck’s revenue. Among ICE’s assets are the New York Stock Exchange. They primarily support – don’t compete with – federally insured bank lending.

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This week’s podcast: fair lending and website accessibility developments

CFPB Monitor

While the pace of the CFPB’s fair lending activities has slowed under its new leadership, significant fair lending developments are occurring elsewhere. In this week’s podcast, we discuss several of those developments and their broader implications.

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NYCB's new risk team fails to calm investors, ratings firm

American Banker

New York Community Bancorp faced new questions Friday after a flurry of disclosures led to a steep sell-off in its stock. The embattled Long Island-based lender beefed up its risk leadership, but Fitch cut its rating to "junk" status.

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Lending Fintechs Acquire Analytics Fintechs: So What?

Gonzobanker

Q2’s acquisition follows many years of paced, organic growth in consumer and business digital banking and a string of acquisitions including digital deposit origination specialist Gro Solutions and loan/lease origination system provider Cloud Lending. Lending is a great area of a bank for analytics to grow from naturally. Meridianlink.

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Bitcoin Daily: NY Regulator Announces New Crypto Unit; Online Crypto Lender Leaked Customers’ Credit Info

PYMNTS

New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched a new Research and Innovation Division that will be responsible for licensing and supervising virtual currencies. None of the information on the database, which held 86 million lines of daily updating records of the lending platform, was encrypted.