On December 2, 2016, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry announced that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) would move forward with issuing special purpose national bank charters to financial technology (“fintech”) companies. The OCC released a whitepaper outlining its authority to issue charters to fintech companies, its approach to supervising fintech companies, and its process for evaluating charter applications. The OCC is requesting public comment on the whitepaper by January 15, 2017.
Our client alert on the whitepaper is available here.