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ABA today called for more congressional oversight in light of recent efforts by federal and state agencies to create new bank charters or apply new interpretations to traditional charters that would allow entities to enjoy bank-like benefits while circumventing the rigorous regulatory framework that applies to traditional banks.

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The Conference of State Bank Supervisors yesterday filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the OCC’s creation of a new special-purpose national bank charter for nonbank companies and the impending charter approval of fintech Figure Technologies.

ABA Banking Journal Podcast Podcast: Reversing the De Novo Flatline

In the more than eight years since the Dodd-Frank Act passed, just 13 new U.S. banks have been chartered — and in some years, no new banks have been chartered at all. ABA Chairman Ken Burgess, who co-founded FirstCapital Bank of Texas as a de novo two decades ago, is concerned about these numbers.

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