On March 7, 2022, Opportunity Finance (OppFi), a nonbank consumer lender, filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) seeking declaratory and...more
On November 23, 2021, the OCC, Federal Reserve Board, and FDIC issued a joint final rule that requires banking organizations and their service providers to report certain computer-security incidents. A computer-security...more
Federal banking regulators have again demonstrated their focus on bank oversight and management of risk from third party relationships through a series of guidance and proposed guidance published in the third quarter of 2021....more
10/25/2021
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Industrial bank charters continue to gain momentum with approval of Square’s charter; payments and tech companies have become interested in industrial banks lately since the FDIC started approving them after a moratorium from...more
On March 17, 2020, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approved Square Financial Services, Inc.’s (Square Financial) and Nelnet Bank’s applications for deposit insurance, subject to several conditions. The FDIC...more
On March 21, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the U.S. Department of...more
3/30/2016
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On July 31, 2013, the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance published its first set of proposed regulations to implement the Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank Act. The Act, which became effective on March 28,...more