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PHILADELPHIA–Former NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz has been named to the Board of Advisors at RenoFi, which provides a platform for financial institutions to offer borrowers renovation loans based on what it calls the home’s After Renovation Value.

WASHINGTON—A Rhode Island company and its owner will be permanently prohibited from misrepresenting they are affiliated with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as part of a settlement resolving Federal Trade Commission charges the company misled consumers in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the FTC reported.

WASHINGTON—During a House Financial Services Committee Financial Technology Task Force hearing, several witnesses expressed concerns over the actions taken by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in regard to fintech charters and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in regard to industrial loan company (ILC) charters.

WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department said it plans to begin forgiving loans granted to small-business owners under the Paycheck Protection Program later this week or early next week, following complaints from both financial institutions and borrowers that the process has become bogged down.

CHICAGO–President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, was the author of a 2018 ruling that dismissed a lawsuit against a credit union in Illinois alleging violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) as lacking standing.