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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

PYMNTS

Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions. Late last week, the U.S.

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Avanti Plans Real-Time Settlement Solution For Corporate Treasurers

PYMNTS

Avanti Financial Group said in a press release that it has received permission from the Wyoming Division of Banking to begin operating in the state as a bank as early as October and plans to offer a real-time settlement solution for corporate treasurers. Avanti made its Wyoming intentions clear in February. ”

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. It is logic. It is statistics. It is math incarnate.

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

They have not been distributed by fiduciaries to the mass market. Selling a diversified, cheap asset allocation as your core investment is a stable market equilibrium. American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. It is logic. It is statistics. It is math incarnate.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Of course, Basel III—otherwise known as the Third Basel Accord—is a global regulatory framework on bank capital adequacy, stress testing and market liquidity risk. Most concerning has been the safety-and-soundness regulation’s unnecessary effect on reducing certain lending by community banks, say Kendrick and several community bankers.

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Chime, Uniswap, and the future of finance could soon struggle

Lex Sokolin

To the extent it pipes people to banking product, that goes to a $500 million market capitalization public company that makes prepaid cards. Instead, it is replacing payday lending as an industry. This model gives visibility in the public markets to what Chime may try to sound like. Still, the spidey sense is off the charts.

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