CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 7, 2020

a wholly-owned subsidiary of fintech Varo Money, Inc. The approved application is for a full-service charter, not the OCC’s controversial FinTech charter that is currently the subject of ongoing litigation. team — the first consumer fintech to receive a national bank charter. The water’s fine!”. Varo Bank, N.A.’s

Fintech 78

Fintech FDIC Utah National 78

Payments Source

JULY 3, 2019

Utah this week became the third state to let companies test cutting-edge financial products without fear of violating licensing and other regulations.

Utah 89

Utah Regulation Company Wyoming 89

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Lauren Saunders, who serves as associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, said state-regulated lenders “lauder their loans up to 160 percent annual percentage rates through banks in order to evade state interest rate caps. Testimony from Diaz and Saunders identified three banks based in Utah tied to such schemes.

Utah 130

Utah National California Regulation 130

CFPB Monitor

JUNE 11, 2019

Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed H.B. This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. The sponsor of Utah’s legislation, Rep.

Utah 60

Utah Arizona Innovation Regulation 60

CFPB Monitor

JULY 2, 2019

Utah is now taking applications for its new regulatory sandbox program. Marc Roberts, the sponsor of the bill that created the program, and Bryan Cowley, the Utah regulator who will oversee the program’s administration. In this podcast, we interview Rep.

Utah 60

Utah Regulation Fintech 60

CFPB Monitor

MAY 16, 2019

Under current regulations, private equity firms are ineligible to register as bank holding companies because they are control companies that are engaged in impermissible activities. The proposal’s comment period closes on July 15, 2019.

Utah 68

Utah Fintech New York National 68

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

San Francisco-based FinTech company Square, known for its white card readers, has once again decided to become a banking establishment, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company had previously asked to start a bank in September of 2017, but eventually withdrew from the process over procedural issues.

San Francisco 165

San Francisco Utah Capital Regulation 165

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

The action comes a week after the FDIC announced that digital lender SoFi had applied to the state of Utah for a special banking charter known as an ILC. Ten years ago Walmart to launch in Utah, where many ILCs are based, and was shut down.

Utah 108

Utah Indiana America Community 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Usury laws regulate how much interest can be charged on a loan. State and federal regulators, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are working to hold marketplace lending platforms accountable to usury law compliance, the publication noted, under the argument that the platforms are the true lenders.

Massachusetts 128

Massachusetts Utah National Regulation 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. All industrial banks are chartered in Utah – and there are only 17 such charters issued, 15 of which are currently active.

Industry 108

Industry Fintech FDIC Community Bank 108

CFPB Monitor

MAY 4, 2022

The CTDPA follows the form and content of other privacy laws passed in the prior year, including the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), and Utah Privacy Act (UPA). This language was likely drafted with Connecticut’s fintech and payment processing industries in mind. Biometrics. Conclusion.

Connecticut 148

Connecticut Utah Colorado California 148

CFPB Monitor

MAY 6, 2019

The OCC also argued that the NYDFS’s claims were untimely because it can no longer challenge the OCC’s long-standing regulation (12 C.F.R. The OCC argued that the NYDFS’ complaint failed to state an APA claim because this regulation is entitled to deference under the U.S. e)(1)) interpreting the term “business of banking” in the NBA.

Fintech 68

Fintech New York National Regulation 68

CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Alan leads the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group and James is a co-leader of the firm’s inter-disciplinary Fintech Team. Last month, the CFPB finalized its proposed revisions to its trial disclosures and no-action letter (NAL) policies and also finalized its proposal to create a new FinTech sandbox policy.

Policies 60

Policies Innovation South Carolina Indiana 60

Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Square became the third fintech firm in recent months to seek out a bank charter. Others are likely to follow.

Fintech 63

Fintech Utah FDIC Regulation 63

CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to the complaint , Kabbage entered into the scheme with Celtic Bank, a foreign state-chartered bank in Utah, which has no maximum rate limit for commercial loans. Celtic could not make and keep the loans on its balance sheet because they would create an unacceptable risk under FDIC regulations.

Massachusetts 84

Massachusetts California New York Utah 84

Lex Sokolin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This generated a good $6 billion of revenue in 2016, though that number is likely further compressed given attempts at regulating this sector. 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. No shenanigans.

Capital 52

Capital Software Lending Apple 52

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an interview at CB Insights’ 2019 Future of Fintech conference, CFO and CPO William Gaybrick indicated that businesses are more constrained by developer resources than by capital. Utah-based Divvy , an expense management platform for SMBs, is another. Brex is one company, raising $280M in less than two years at a $2.6B

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, very few people would have guessed that tens of billions of dollars would be invested in fintech vendors and solutions annually – except it happened. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Best Fintech Acquisition by a Bank. Fintech Acquiring Bank.

Fintech 131

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 131

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 4, 2016

Here are the fintech deals by size from 26 March to 1 April 2016: Ceridian. HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah. The post Fintech Fundings: 21 Companies Raise $460 Million Week Ending April 1 appeared first on Finovate. Bluefin Payments received $6 million to expand its secure payment system. Latest round: $150 million Private Equity.

New York City 12

New York City Company Fintech California 12

William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This technology powers a ton of other FinTech companies (something that I don’t think most people know). PromonTech has a vision of a mortgage industry that is transparent, efficient and understandable for all: borrowers, lenders, regulators and investors. They are based in Utah. Presenters -Michael Kolberner, Tony Pietrocola.

Samsung 69

Samsung Mobile User Experience Google 69

CFPB Monitor

JUNE 15, 2022

The letter explains that although states have tools for going after these lending arrangements, such tools are more costly to employ and less likely to be effective than typical enforcement authorities provided to state financial regulators.

FDIC 78

FDIC California West Virginia North Carolina 78

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Maybe a regulator was out sick or on maternity leave, but this is one crawling bureaucratic nightmare. Be Careful What You Wish for Award – To all those Fintech providers that can now get an official bank charter to operate within the confines of simple regulatory requirements. The big bang project is over.” see [link] ).

Utah 60

Utah System Community Marketing 60

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Maybe a regulator was out sick or on maternity leave, but this is one crawling bureaucratic nightmare. Be Careful What You Wish for Award – To all those Fintech providers that can now get an official bank charter to operate within the confines of simple regulatory requirements. The big bang project is over.”

Utah 60

Utah System Community Marketing 60

CFPB Monitor

MAY 3, 2019

Flynn Endowed Professor of Law, University of Utah, S.J. Among other things, Mr. Zuluaga testified that the United Kingdom’s regulator estimated an 11% decrease in small dollar lenders after imposition of the rate cap, but that the United Kingdom experienced an actual decline of 56% in 18 months.

Michigan 68

Michigan Policies Utah Lending 68