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Avoiding Over-Regulation: American Fintech Council Warns That FDIC New Act Could Hinder Innovation

The Fintech Times

The new proposal will allegedly strengthen FDIC-insured depository institutions’ (IDI) recordkeeping for custodial deposit accounts with transactional features. It would also preserve beneficial owners’ and depositors’ entitlement to the protections afforded by Federal deposit insurance.

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de novo industrial bank in Utah, the agency said on Wednesday (March 18). The Utah Department of Financial Institutions still has to issues approvals to the San Francisco-based FinTech. Square, Inc.

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Singapore’s ANEXT Bank Reports Doubling of Its MSME Clients

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ANEXT Bank continues to focus on serving the underserved MSMEs. As of the end of May, 69% of its customers are micro businesses, with 56% of loan customers and 80% of deposit customers falling into this category. These FBOs hail from 78 different nationalities, including mainland China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea.

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OakNorth and Marqeta Join Forces to Tackle £22billion SME Funding Gap in UK

The Fintech Times

This includes deposit accounts and tools to automate bill payments. OakNorth specialises in supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and businesses that are underserved by traditional banks. The post OakNorth and Marqeta Join Forces to Tackle £22billion SME Funding Gap in UK appeared first on The Fintech Times.

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Marqeta Partners with OakNorth to Offer Commercial Cards in the UK, Embracing Growing Small and Medium-Sized Business Demand for Better Banking Tools

Fintech Finance

By partnering with Marqeta, OakNorth will provide its small and medium-sized business customers the services typically only available to commercial banking customers, including deposit accounts and tools to automate bill payments, helping them plan for rising costs and thrive amid economic uncertainty.

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How NepFin, HSBC Target A Middle-Market Lending ‘Gap’

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Commercial Banking announced a partnership with FinTech Neptune Financial (NepFin). Both HSBC and NepFin are embracing the needs of a, thus far, underserved market — and the partnership has crystalized quickly. Data helps lenders make the best risk-adjusted lending decisions. To that end, late last month, HSBC U.S.

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AFC Provides House Financial Services Committee Feedback to Make Community Banking Great Again

The Fintech Times

Highlighting the important role that bank-fintech partnerships play in improving access to financial services, the American Fintech Council (AFC), the trade association representing fintech companies and banks, has submitted a letter in response.