On October 13, 2016, the Brookings Institute will hold an event in Washington, D.C. titled: “How to make fintech work for all Americans.”  Speakers include industry representatives and an FDIC representative.  Brookings describes the event as “a conversation about the effects of the fintech boom, with a particular focus on how regulation and public policy can enhance or hinder the industry’s ability to solve some of the more intractable problems facing middle-class.”

Among the questions to be addressed are whether “regulation and policy inhibit innovation and skew benefits toward the well-to-do.”  In discussing regulation and policy, speakers could address CFPB larger participant rulemaking for installment/marketplace lenders and other concerns raised by regulators concerning marketplace lending.