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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. Sandboxes, Gathering Steam.

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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

Instead, they have either (1) been directly owned by retail investors through crypto exchanges or decentralized apps, or (2) been packaged and secured for safe handling by newly buy-side funds for the largest endowments and family offices in the world. is New York better than Wyoming ?), A state like Wyoming has set precedent?—?almost

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How the OCC is building Crypto America

Lex Sokolin

Instead, they have either (1) been directly owned by retail investors through crypto exchanges or decentralized apps, or (2) been packaged and secured for safe handling by newly buy-side funds for the largest endowments and family offices in the world. is New York better than Wyoming ?), A state like Wyoming has set precedent?—?almost

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

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. Kim DeVore, chief financial officer for Jonah Bank of Wyoming, in Casper, Wyo., Headwind for lending. More work, little value.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Cumberland Security Bank, Inc. First Security Bank of Deer Lodge. Wyoming Bank & Trust. In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. Allied First Bank, SB. Nebraska State Bank. Neighbors Bank.

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

Lex Sokolin

Instead, it is replacing payday lending as an industry. It doesn’t have an ILC charter from Utah, or a crypto bank charter from Wyoming, or a straight-up bank charter like Varo, nor has it acquired any banks like Lending Club or Jiko. They also often lack financial literacy and education? It doesn’t want to be seen as a bank.

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