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OCC approves national bank charter applications of fintech company

CFPB Monitor

SoFi) to create SoFi Bank, National Association (SoFi Bank, N.A.), as a full service national bank headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. The bank will also provide a fully digital, mobile-first national lending platform for consumers across the country.

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Consumer advocates send letter urging Alternative Reference Rate Committee to consider impact on student loans in implementing change from LIBOR to SOFR

CFPB Monitor

Take steps to promote the broad adoption of SOFR (citing reports indicating “that industry has recently pushed for regulators to rubber-stamp the use of additional alternative reference rates”).

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National Funding Explores AltFin’s Uncertain Growth Trajectory

PYMNTS

However, Dave Gilbert, founder and chief executive officer of SMB alternative lending firm National Funding , said he’s seen a trend of growing traction within the small business community. In its report, S&P found nearly 50 percent of SMB borrowers are too unfamiliar with digital lenders to use alternative finance.

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EDI Challenges Reference Data’s Big Four

Tech and Finance

A relative newcomer to the reference data business, Exchange Data International, is challenging the incumbents for what it terms anti-competitive practices. Burton-Taylor International Consulting, the leading authority on the market data business, estimates the global market for reference data is $2 billion to $3 billion.

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Punjab National Bank Continues Internal Investigations Into $2B Diamond Heist Scandal

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India’s Punjab National Bank (PNB) is conducting an internal investigation into an alleged $2 billion fraud, vowing to come down on anyone involved in the crime. “We They come only for a short period of time and they go and basically see data only on the CBS,” said Mehta, referring to PNB’s core banking software. I don’t blame them.

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Barclays Shuts Down Online Banking Services on Easter Weekend

Bank Innovation

bank said it will be switching off access to 24 million customers as the bank restructures itself as required by national regulation. These changes were established by the Bank of England in 2011, and is referred […]. The major U.K.

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FTC requests comment on consumer advocate petition regarding auto “yo-yo financing”

CFPB Monitor

On May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) requested public comment on a petition for rulemaking it received from six national consumer advocate groups regarding “yo-yo sales,” a term the groups use to refer to motor vehicle sale transactions where credit terms or other deal terms are changed post-purchase and delivery of the vehicle because (..)

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