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Applying for a Bank Charter The proposed bank must first receive approval for a federal or state banking charter. Before granting a charter, the chartering regulator must determine that the applicant bank has a reasonable chance for success and will operate in a safe and sound manner.

The OCC announced this week that it has conditionally approved applications from Social Finance Inc.

A bank's actual charter lays out operational guidelines for the bank, along with how it will comply with relevant regulations.In the United States, a charter can be either state or federally issued and conform to either state agency regulations or federal-oversight regulations, respectively.

A national bank charter is a federal form of corporate organization that authorizes a bank to conduct business on a nationwide basis and subjects the bank to uniform standards and rigorous federal oversight.

National Bank A commercial bank whose charter is approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) rather than by a state banking agency. National banks are required to be members of the Federal Reserve System and belong to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

The bank charter is SoFi's biggest catalyst and will have measurable effects on its margins, membership, and marketing. Analysis of the timeline of previous fintechs who have received bank charters suggests that the bank charter approval should be in the near future (within ~6 months).

Big Four audit firm, Deloitte, had noted in a October 2019 article published by CNBC that "getting a national bank charter tends to take around 18-24 months." As mentioned in the preceding section of this article, SoFi Technologies filed for a change of control application in March 2021, and the approval process is