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Sergey Nazarov, SmartContract's founder and CEO.

A San Francisco startup working with Swift plans to launch a network that would tie self-executing contracts to independent data sources.

Maria Vullo, head of the New York Department of Financial Services.

New York's former banking superintendent will spend much of the next three months advising fintech startups on how to cope with regulators.

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said in a bulletin to banks that it will consider whether firms engaged in "politicized or unlawful debanking" when considering bank's licensing applications and Community Reinvestment Act reviews.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has backed off enforcement and supervision of consumer protection laws, leaving states to fill the void — and potentially creating a "patchwork" of state laws that banks will have to comply with.

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The Minneapolis-based regional saw its fourth-quarter profits jump 23%. Consumer deposits bumped up, while operating expenses remained muted.