Steven Harras

Nine senators from both parties are urging the FDIC to give fair consideration to industrial loan company charters.

Complaints of partisanship go on regardless which party is trying to update the Community Reinvestment Act for new financial technology.

Complaints of partisanship go on regardless which party is trying to update the Community Reinvestment Act for new financial technology.

Financial technology firms are worried about the ramifications of a regulator’s decisions to end two temporary safe harbor protections.

Celebrity endorsements are making fintech part of popular culture but regulators are moving cautiously to avoid dangerous risks.

The severity and persistence of supply-chain challenges created by the pandemic and accompanying shutdowns outpaced predictions.

Sen. Joe Manchin III said he won’t support Sarah Bloom Raskin for a Fed post, potentially scuttling any chance of confirming her.

Estate planners say the surge in cryptocurrency holdings is raising the risk that heirs won’t get the assets when the owners die.

Companies are adopting a buy now, pay later financial technology that is raising worries about whether consumers are able to repay the debt.

The new head of the Financial Technology Association wants to engage with policymakers to develop certainty for the fledgling industry.

The new head of the Financial Technology Association wants to engage with policymakers to develop certainty for the fledgling industry.

Federal financial regulators will have to strike a balance on AI technology seen as both transformational and having disturbing potential.

States have failed to convince courts to stop the Comptroller’s office from issuing national bank charters to fintech companies.

States have failed to convince courts to stop the Comptroller’s office from issuing national bank charters to fintech companies.

OCC’s preliminary approval of a bank charter for a fintech company that has critics worried about it is skirting the rules.

OCC’s preliminary approval of a bank charter for a fintech company that has critics worried about it is skirting the rules.

Financial technology advocates say it provides newly-arrived immigrants a tool to gain access to crucial credit.

DOJ is asking the public whether it should include “nontraditional banks” when considering the competitive effects of a proposed bank merger.

The state is looking to innovative financial technologies as one source to help its economy, which has been battered by COVID-19.

Jo Ann Barefoot says she has dedicated the past few years to helping clear regulatory and legal impediments hindering financial technology.