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Periodically, Klaros nonbank clients ponder the potential impact on their enterprise valuation if they were to seek a bank charter....

BY KEVIN STEIN FDIC Chairman Marty Gruenberg’s recent speech at the Brookings Institution Center for Regulation and Markets had some...

BY ANDREAS WESTGAARD AND CHRISTINA HUNT-FUHR The much-anticipated guidance on third-party relationships issued in June by the Fed, OCC,...

We’re excited to share that Klaros partner and co-founder Michele Alt was named to American Banker’s inaugural Most Influential Women in...

BY ADAM SHAPIRO Banking as a Service (BaaS) is not only here to stay, it came to play: according to a recent Juniper Research report,...

Happy New Year from the Klaros Group! Like our media friends at Axios, Bloomberg, and Fortune, we took stock of the trends that dominated...

BY JONAH CRANE Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates at the fastest pace in history, and quickly rolled back...

BY CHRISTINA HUNT-FUHR Fraud is everywhere in financial services. It’s increasing in both volume and cost, now accounting for up to 5% of...

BY BRIAN GRAHAM A lot of folks in fintech are still talking about Acting OCC Comptroller Michael Hsu’s recent speech, which among other...

BY JOSHUA DIAMOND The Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett’s famous quote, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming...

BY JONAH CRANE AND JOHANNE LAURBERG On April 25, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it would dust off...

Last Thursday, the Small Business Administration officially announced the inevitable: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Federal...

First things first, let’s give credit where credit is due. A mere seven days after a bill became law, which itself moved through two...

Just over a week ago, the Treasury Secretary promised that “any FDIC bank, any credit union, any fintech lender will be authorized to...