The OCC’s New FinTech National Banking Charter

On December 2, 2016, Comptroller Thomas J. Curry of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) announced that the OCC will move forward with chartering financial technology (“FinTech”) companies that offer bank products and services and meet the OCC’s chartering requirements. However, while encouraging, the announcement, and the OCC paper released with it, left many issues unresolved.…