Fintech regulations

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New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

Congress can help create a more uniform federal regulatory testing ground to foster innovation.

Former Comptroller Thomas Curry, who initially proposed the special charter now blocked by a judge, calls on policymakers to find another way to regulate financial tech startups.

China dominates the business. Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency could help alter the balance of power.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has proposed a bill to bar companies such as Rakuten from using industrial loan companies to access the banking system.

Congress can help create a more uniform federal regulatory testing ground to foster innovation.

The Clearing House is pushing contract terms that would give fintechs quicker access to consumers' financial information, but one large upstart has taken issue with the proposal's language.

The three federal bank regulators usually try to issue rules jointly, but Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting on Tuesday pointed to areas where the agencies may move on separate paths.