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The regulatory step that lets it hold deposits directly rather than renting a partner bank's charter. Conditional approval still requires meeting OCC conditions before the charter is granted. It removes the sponsor-bank dependency that has capped every non-US neobank's American expansion. Finextra
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(Finextra) Scope, data exposure and affected institutions weren't disclosed in the initial report. The blast-radius question here sits downstream, not at Jack Henry. ---
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