State regulators filed a complaint last week seeking to prevent the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency from creating a national charter for nonbank financial technology companies. The charter would preempt state laws, eliminating a “patchwork” of compliance issues for marketplace lenders and other fintech companies. “If the OCC is allowed to proceed with the creation of a special-purpose nonbank charter, it will set a dangerous precedent that any federal agency can ...
Perhaps the new Treasury secretary finally looked at the numbers, realizing that Fannie and Freddie – wards of the government since September 2008 – forked over roughly $20 billion to Uncle Sam…
Blockchain technology could help reduce the compliance costs associated with Regulation AB2, according to the Structured Finance Industry Group and the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The two trade groups recently submitted a comment letter to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in response to FINRA’s report on distributed ledger technology. FINRA, an independent regulator of broker-dealers, is considering the implications of blockchain for the securities industry. Blockchain is...
loanDepot rolled out another aspect of its digital origination software interface last week as a number of lenders work to use technology to improve the mortgage application and origination processes. A mortgage origination process that is completely online or digital is still being pursued by lenders, but officials at loanDepot suggest that the proprietary digital lending platform the nonbank has developed, known as mello, is “the future of lending.” “Technology advancements have ...
According to President Jerry Selitto, the company used traditional LOs when it launched in 2016, but then switched gears “after we realized that’s not the model we wanted.”