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From Legacy to Innovation: The Ongoing Transformation of Banking through Technology

Fintech Weekly

In March, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued new guidance for FDIC-supervised institutions actively engaging in or interested in crypto-related activities. High-profile companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and HSBC are leading the way to blockchain integration.

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Today In Data: Offering Innovations In Risk-Rich Environments

PYMNTS

And not all threats or risks come from bad guys – there’s also plenty of risk associated with good financial transactions, like underwriting going bad through mass defaults. 27 percent: Share of American consumers who are unbanked or underbanked, according to the FDIC.

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Everything You Need To Know About Kratom Merchant Account

International Payments Processing

FDIC Insurance for all payments Guaranteed same day funding Works with both Retail and ECommerce Cash discount program compatible Open your Kratom Merchant Account Today! We help you from the beginning all the way through the process to collect the underwriting documents and get approved to process card payments.

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Everything You Need To Know About Kratom Merchant Account

International Payments Processing

FDIC Insurance for all payments Guaranteed same day funding Works with both Retail and ECommerce Cash discount program compatible Open your Kratom Merchant Account Today! We help you from the beginning all the way through the process to collect the underwriting documents and get approved to process card payments.

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Are FICO Scores “Artificially Inflated?”

FICO

FICO has for many years closely tracked trends in the odds-to-score relationship, and advocated lenders to do the same on their portfolios in case the findings merited an adjustment in underwriting criteria such as the FICO ® Score cutoff used. So what are some of these factors?

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New CRA Guidance Promotes Use of Alternative Data in Lending

FICO

The Act requires federal banking agencies (the OCC, FDIC and Federal Reserve – “Agencies”) to conduct periodic reviews of each depository institution’s efforts in this area. CRA regulations provide various methods of evaluating bank performance, corresponding to differences in institutions’ asset sizes, structures and operations.

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SoFi Officially Files For A Bank Charter Of Its Own

PYMNTS

Which means it really doesn’t come as all that huge a surprise that as of June 6th, SoFi had applied for a new (de novo) bank charter according to the FDIC. Instead, SoFi as a bank will exist so it can “provide its customers an FDIC insured NOW account and a credit card product. SoFi has confirmed the news.