6/18/2021 3:49:54 PM Adyen granted US branch license By Carlos Alonso Torras The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has approved Adyen’s application to establish a Federal Foreign Branch in San...
6/4/2021 11:30:49 AM States dealt setback in effort to block OCC fintech charter By Carlos Alonso Torras A panel of appeals court judges on Thursday delivered a blow to efforts by state regulators to challenge the Office of the Comptroller of...
5/21/2021 11:49:31 AM OCC chief signals new direction on bank supervision, fintech policy By Carlos Alonso Torras The new head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency warned that some banks are taking undue risks and signaled a more...
1/13/2021 4:46:49 PM Get ready for self-driving banks By Sarah Wolter In 1961, Popular Science magazine envisioned self-driving cars. The reality arrived sooner than anyone anticipated, before safety...
1/5/2021 4:34:54 PM OCC regulator implements groundbreaking cryptocurrency guidance for banks and the future of payments By Sarah Wolter Interpretive Letter 1174 explains how banks may use new technologies, including independent node verification networks (INVNs) and...
10/30/2020 12:39:43 PM Fintech startup SoFi gets preliminary approval for U.S. bank charter By Carlos Alonso Torras Social Finance Inc has received preliminary, conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over its...
5/15/2020 7:31:46 PM OCC floats new payments charter for Stripe, PayPal, and crypto firms By Faisal Kawar The new chief operating officer at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), previously the Chief Legal Officer of...
5/8/2020 3:08:58 PM OCC taps Axoni in shift to DLT for securities lending infrastructure By Carlos Alonso Torras Equity derivatives clearing organization OCC has selected portfolio company Axoni to help it replace its securities lending...
1/20/2017 8:37:39 PM New York Banking Regulator Attacks Federal Fintech Charter Plan By Gareth Jones New York’s top banking regulator on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of critics attacking a federal government plan to help...
1/13/2017 3:30:48 AM Democratic Senators Criticize Fintech-Charter Plan By Gareth Jones Senators Sherrod Brown and Jeff Merkleysaid said this week that Congress should be the one to oversee fintech firms and that “it is far...