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The OCC required the company to raise more capital and complete a CRA plan. Varo Bank still needs FDIC and Fed approval before opening.

The agencies had proposed revisions designed to make compliance less complex, but banks have expressed concern that the plan could have the opposite effect.

Unilateral approaches to bank regulation are risky, but the OCC's plan to seek public comment independent of the other agencies could help shed light on a CRA debate that is now being waged internally.

The agency says it will act independently of other regulators to release a notice asking for public input on revamping the decades-old law.

A huge chunk of the profit increase in the second quarter was due to a lower tax rate, but rising net interest margins and loan growth signal that institutions continue to derive revenue from their loan book.

Before the passage of the recent regulatory relief law, only banks with assets of less than $1 billion were on an 18-month exam schedule.

A top regulator has signaled that the banking agencies are receptive to extending the comment deadline, after banks raised concerns about a proposed revision to the ban on proprietary trading.

The industry’s profit was $60.2 billion, a more than 7% increase from the previous record set in the first quarter and a 25% leap from a year earlier, the agency said in its quarterly report on the industry's health.

The regulation implements a recent legislative provision dealing with how banks comply with post-crisis liquidity requirements.

Although it’s required to by law, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has not had an independent director with state bank supervisory experience since 2012. It’s time for that to change.