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Banking on a Nonbank Bank in 2024 - The ILC Option Revisited

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Becoming or owning an industrial loan company (or ILC)—the elusive "nonbank bank" option, as Congress coined the term in 1987— still has an allure for financial services providers that want to (1) lend on a national scale...more

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Fintech in Brief: Federal Reserve Board Proposes Guidelines for Approving Master Accounts and Other Services

On May 5, 2021, the Federal Reserve Board (the “Board”) published for public comment proposed guidelines (the “Account Access Guidelines”) for the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks (the “Reserve Banks”) to use when reviewing...more

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Bank Report: October 2019

Federal Banking Agencies Adopt Simplified Capital Calculation for Community Banks The federal banking agencies have issued a final rule that will simplify capital requirements for community banks by allowing them to adopt...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.23.2019 | Top Story: Top exec exodus continues, this time at Nike, Boeing, and WeWork

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Nike’s top dog, CEO Mark Parker, is stepping down at the beginning of 2020, to be replaced by board member and ServiceNow CEO John Donahoe. Parker, who will assume the role of executive chair when Donahoe takes over, has been...more

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Fintech in Brief: Federal Reserve Announces Plan to Develop A Real-Time Payment and Settlement Service

On August 5, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it will develop a new 24x7x365 real-time payment and settlement service to support faster payments in the United States. In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas...more

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Fed proposal to revise control rules would not create alternative to OCC fintech charter

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The Federal Reserve Board has published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking with request for comment on a proposal to simplify and increase transparency of its rules for determining control of a banking...more

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Fintech in Brief: Update on Legal Challenges to OCC Fintech Charter

On March 19, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) filed a brief in opposition to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (“OCC”) motion to dismiss the NYDFS’ lawsuit challenging the...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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We’ve got details on China’s proposed trade peace deal along with thoughts on whether it’ll be sufficient to satisfy a White House that’s been itching for a fight....more

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How Fintech Regulatory Sandboxes Can Help the United States Catch Up to Europe and Asia

The framework of a regulatory sandbox should allow for informal dialogue with regulators at the idea or initial concept and early design stages, and controlled experiments with real-time regulatory input and feedback at the...more

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Federal Reserve Hints at Upcoming Payments Announcement and Evaluation of Fintech Companies that Receive an OCC SPNB Charter

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Press reports indicate that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System plans to announce the next step in its effort to speed payments in the U.S. financial system later this year. “We’ve been assessing various...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Big American banks (BofA, Citi, Morgan Stanley) are avoiding deals with Chinese conglomerate HNA Group over concerns regarding HNA’s debt level and ownership structure....more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Wells Fargo’s Board Chair, Stephen Sanger, did survive his reelection vote the other day. Barely. But Breakingviews thinks he should think awfully hard about his future as a Director at the bank....more

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Nutter Bank Report, March 2017

Fed Raises Threshold That Triggers Review of Systemic Risk of a Proposed Merger - In a recent decision on a proposed merger of two bank holding companies, the Federal Reserve indicated that it has increased the...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - March 2017 #4

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Editor's Note - The Battle Over the Proposed OCC FinTech Charter Continues. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a draft supplement to its Licensing Manual explaining the process for FinTech...more

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NYDFS, American Bankers Association Weigh In On OCC Fintech Charter Proposal

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The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has come out strongly against an Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) proposal to grant national bank charters to financial technology (fintech)...more

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OCC Addresses Concerns on Issuance of National Bank Charters to Fintech Companies

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has proposed to allow financial technology (fintech) companies to apply for full or special purpose national bank charters. In advance of the proposal's January 15, 2017,...more

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US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to Grant Charters to Fintech Firms

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The Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, announced that the OCC would commence considering applications from financial technology companies that offer bank products and services for a grant of a special purpose bank...more

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"Federal Regulator Signals Willingness to Grant National Bank Charters to Fintech Companies"

On December 2, 2016, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced its willingness to entertain applications from financial technology (fintech) companies for special purpose national bank charters. In recent...more

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