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Nelson Mullins invites you to a one-hour webinar entitled, "Brokered Deposits Best Practices for Bank Fintech Partnerships," on July 25. Partners Brad Rustin and Craig Nazzaro along with associate Marianna...more
Join us for the next edition of FinTech University as we focus on FinTech and bank regulations. This webinar will examine how bank regulations affect the FinTech industry (and vice versa), and what banks need to know when...more
Since the early 2010s, there has been explosive growth in the Buy Now Pay Later ("BNPL") space. One of the early players—Affirm—was founded in 2012 by a co-founder of PayPal. By 2022, there are dozens of players in the BNPL...more
Please forgive some members of the FinTech community for remembering President Ronald Reagan’s comment: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help.’” President...more
3/16/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Bitcoin ,
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Executive Orders ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Financial Transactions ,
Investment Contract ,
Investor Protection ,
Regulatory Agenda
For the past six months, we have received calls from banks and non-depository mortgage lenders regarding Department of Justice (“DOJ”) investigations into mortgage lending discrimination. These DOJ inquiries are bypassing the...more
3/10/2022
/ Credit Discrimination ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
ECOA ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Fair Lending ,
Financial Services Industry ,
HMDA ,
Loan Applications ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Race Discrimination ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Redlining
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, we saw a swift response by the U.S. beginning with President Biden’s Executive Order 14024 (“The EO”) and followed quickly by the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (“OFAC”) severe...more
3/2/2022
/ Blocked Person ,
BSA/AML ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Financial Transactions ,
FinTech ,
Foreign Policy ,
Know Your Customers ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
SDN List ,
Ukraine ,
Wire Transfers
The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s. Where critics see a passing fad with little actual utility or a lawless...more
2/25/2022
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Banks ,
Bitcoin ,
Blockchain ,
Competition ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Digital Wallets ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Financial Instruments ,
FinTech ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stablecoins ,
Virtual Currency
Continuing the FinTech University series, please join Richard Levin, Jody Porter, Brad Rustin, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran for a program focusing on FinTech and the automotive industry. The session will include 10 minutes...more
Continuing the FinTech University series, please join Richard Levin, Katherine Baker, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran for a program focusing on FinTech and gaming. The session will include 10 minutes of Q&A at the end....more
Continuing the FinTech University CLE series, join Richard Levin, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran for this one-hour session on digital assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin, other tokens, and NFTs. The last 10...more
9/28/2021
/ Bitcoin ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Ethereum ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Popular ,
Webinars
Launching the Nelson Mullins FinTech University series, join Richard Levin, Brad Rustin, Craig Nazzaro, and Kevin Tran for a program focusing on FinTech and how it is reshaping the world. This first one-hour CLE will...more
Within a recent address to an industry conference, Dr. Lael Brainard, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), drove home her belief that the adoption of stablecoins over a U.S. Centralized Bank...more
Sherrod Brown, the Chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs recently sent a letter to Michael Hsu, the Acting Comptroller expressing his concern over a number of national trust charters...more
On March 29, 2021, the primary federal bank regulators (the Federal Reserve, CFPB, the FDIC, the NCUA, and the OCC) issued a request for information to gain input on the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) by...more
4/2/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Cybersecurity ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
NCUA ,
OCC ,
Popular ,
Risk Management
So let’s dance this last dance. On Jan. 4, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) published a Chief Counsel’s Interpretative Letter (the “Letter”) confirming the authority of national banks’ and federal...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“Bureau” or “CFPB”) Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law (“Taskforce”) released a two-volume report, on January 5, 2021, providing an examination of the existing legal and...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued its long-anticipated final rule on Oct. 27, to establish a “simple, bright-line test” to determine when a national bank or federal savings association has made a...more
In early August an Assurance of Discontinuance (the “AOD”) was entered into by all parties in the actions brought by the Colorado Attorney General and the Colorado Uniform Consumer Credit Code Commissioner against Avant of...more
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled in favor of SBA lenders with respect to the treatment of “agent fees” under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)....more
CFPB Director Kathleen L. Kraninger appeared Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 29 to deliver the Bureau’s most recent Semi-Annual Report to Congress. This report was particularly...more
The CFPB announced its plan to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (“ANPR”) on consumer-authorized access to financial records. The announcement follows a symposium on the topic, which was hosted by the Bureau this...more
Join Nelson Mullins attorneys Brad Rustin and Craig Nazzaro for a full overview of the developments and best practices within the Payments space. We will cover regulatory issues, solutions and common challenges for both those...more
8/3/2020
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Best Practices ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Crisis Management ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Payment Processors ,
Payment Systems ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Webinars
As anticipated, on July 20, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) proposed rulemaking to determine that when a national bank or federal savings association makes a loan it is the “true lender,” when...more
Earlier this week, the CFPB announced a final rule covering small dollar lending which rescinds the mandatory underwriting provisions of the 2017 Payday Lending Rule. ...more
The impact of the coming election, current pandemic and recent SCOTUS decision all have enormous impacts on the CFPB and the regulation of consumer finance. Join us for a review of the probable direction of the CFPB and what...more