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Alston & Bird

Regulators Focus on Bank-Fintech Arrangements

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Through joint guidance and an information request, federal bank regulators underscored banks’ compliance responsibilities in their banking-as-a-service (BaaS) relationships with third parties. Our Financial Services Team...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

What the CFPB’s ‘Larger Participants’ Rule Means for FinTech Firms

Certain financial technology (FinTech) firms will soon be subject to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) supervisory authority under the Consumer Financial Protection Act, and should be prepared accordingly....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB Enforcement Power: 3 Trends to Follow

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has expanded its oversight of nonbank financial entities (nonbanks) to add to its available regulatory tools in response to the rapid rise of nonbank financial products and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Second Circuit grapples with standing in case challenging OCC’s fintech charter authority

On March 9, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit heard oral argument on the question of whether the OCC can legally issue national bank charters to non-depository financial technology (fintech) firms. The case is...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FDIC greenlights industrial banks for fintechs and provides regulatory roadmap

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

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Fintech in Brief: FDIC Approves Two ILC Deposit Insurance Applications

On March 18, the Board of Directors of the FDIC approved the deposit insurance applications of Square, Inc. and Nelnet, Inc. to create two de novo industrial loan companies (“ILCs”). The approvals come a day after Jelena...more

BCLP

How is Open Banking Regulated?

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In previous posts in our BankBCLP.com series on this topic, we’ve attempted to define “open banking” and the ways in which it is attracting increasing industry attention through open APIs. As our series continues, we describe...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Fintech in Brief: Issues to Consider in Connection with the CFPB’s Proposed Product Sandbox and Policy Changes for No-Action...

Bank, nonbank, and Fintech providers of consumer financial products and services may be able to reduce their exposure to compliance risk under the December 13, 2018 No Action Letter (“NAL”) Policy changes proposed by the...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

OCC FinTech Charter Status Update

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On April 30, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit filed one year earlier by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) disputing the authority of the Office of the...more

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