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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.

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NY DFS announces multistate investigation of payroll advance industry

CFPB Monitor

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a press release yesterday to announce that it is leading a multistate investigation into the payroll advance industry. Under former Director Cordray’s leadership, the CFPB took action against structured settlement and pension advance companies.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Lucas White: We need to continue to differentiate community banks and educate policymakers on why tiered and proportionate regulation is necessary. We need to make sure people remember that and have it reflected in laws and regulations that affect our industry. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

CAP COM and SEFCU in New York come to together to create an $8 billion cooperative organization. million gets the vaunted consumer lender a much-prized bank charter, low-cost deposits to juice current earnings, and a business lending capability to drive future growth. Lifetime Leadership Achievement Awards.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

Regulators haven’t yet broached the subject with them. That’s followed by residential mortgage lending (36.3%), small business lending (32.1%), commercial and industrial (C&I) lending (30%) and agricultural lending (23.6%). Another community bank structured a new entity in a similar way, Silveria says.

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FDIC issues “Madden fix” rule addressing state bank loan interest rates after assignment

CFPB Monitor

The FDIC’s final rule amends Part 331 of Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations by providing the following language in 12 CFR §331.4(e) More importantly, it remains to be seen how state regulators react to the OCC and FDIC Madden -fix rules. Will they focus on the true lender doctrine to enforce their state usury caps?

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Pokemon The Surprise Retail Sizzle Of The Summer?

PYMNTS

But the big boo-boo/no-no was that FDIC employees knowingly and intentionally provided false information to investigators in an effort to confuse regulators, including putting forward “a narrative” intended to sway investigators from continuing an inquiry. Lending Club Algorithms . Really, since when?). Some secret sauce.

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