Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Regulation & Compliance that week — drawn from 13 posts across 7 newsletters, and nothing else.
Bank charters and regulatory approvals were a recurring theme across several newsletters this week. American Banker Fintech covered a new on-chain bank receiving conditional OCC approval, while Fintech Futures reported that OpenReserve secured conditional approval for a US national bank charter along with $25m in seed financing. Banking Dive Newsletter noted that Block is seeking an OCC bank charter, and Linas's Newsletter covered Revolut winning the US bank charter that Wise couldn't. Fintech Futures also reported that Ant International won a payment institution licence in Brazil.
American Banker Fintech published several items on banking regulation and compliance topics, including New York directing banks to identify their single points of failure, regulators proposing new guidance on core providers, the CLARITY Act and concerns about last-minute changes to it, a GAO finding that compliance burden is a key barrier to cannabis banking, and a piece questioning whether banks need a nutrition label for their AI model data.
Other newsletters touched on crypto and AI-related regulatory subjects. Stack and Story covered the Lords forcing the Treasury's hand on crypto. AI for FIs reported on an attacker who used AI to steal thousands of credentials in under six hours. Fintech Business Weekly covered the subject of whether fintech standards are fit for purpose, without elaborating further.
Finally, Linas's Newsletter also covered Anthropic's $65B billing problem and Stripe's $7B answer, in addition to its item on Revolut's bank charter.
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