July 31, 2018 – The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced it will begin accepting applications for national bank charters from financial technology firms. FIN has [...]
July 31, 2018 – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a report outlining a number of policy proposals to modernize federal financial services regulations. The Treasury report aligns [...]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report on the regulation of financial technology. The report, “Financial Technology: Additional Steps by Regulators Could [...]
September 14, 2017 – Today FIN filed comments in response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s inquiry into small business lending data. The following statement is attributed to Brian [...]
July 27, 2017 – U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Patrick Toomey (R-PA), Gary Peters (D-MI) and Steve Daines (R-MT) today introduced the Protecting Consumers’ Access to Credit Act of 2017, which [...]
July 19, 2017 – Today Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith A. Norieka affirmed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s intent to accept fintech charter applications and to [...]
May 5th, 2017 – Following yesterday’s Committee passage of the CHOICE Act, Financial Innovation Now expressed its significant concerns regarding language in the bill that repeals current [...]
March 15, 2017 – Today the OCC released a draft licensing manual for financial technology companies that may wish to pursue a special purpose bank charter. The OCC is accepting comments on the [...]
January 17, 2017 – Today Financial Innovation Now responded to Comptroller Curry’s request for feedback regarding the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposal to [...]