From Around the USA

 

Virginia

Column: Virginia should adopt a regulatory sandbox | by Ryan Lanier, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Feb. 3, 2023

 

Ohio

Ohio Regulatory Sandbox Law Signed into Law

Husch Blackwell LLP | Jan 5, 2023

 

North Carolina

North Carolina Joins the Growing Number of States With a FinTech Regulatory Sandbox

The National Law Review | October 19, 2021

 

Newspaper article on WV sandbox law

Risks and rewards weighed in state's fintech sandbox development | by Clint Thomas, Daily Mail WV, Aug 20, 2021

 

North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox Act of 2021

Technology Boom in NC? What You Should Know About the Proposed Regulatory Sandbox in the Tarheel State,

 JDSUPRA, July 20, 2021 

 

FL, WV join AZ, NV, UT, WY with IL, NC in the works

States entice fintechs by giving them freedom to experiment | By Miriam Cross, American Banker, August 26, 2020 [Paywalled]

 

Indiana

Will Income-Share Agreements Be the Next Payday Loans? | The American Prospect, July 2, 2019

Note that the Arizona Attorney General has admitted Align Income Share Funding, Inc. to the Sandbox to make consumer loans without being required to comply with the consumer protections of the Consumer Lending law.

 

Utah

Utah is the third state to introduce a regulatory sandbox program after Arizona and Wyoming.

See blog post dated 6/11/209

 

Nevada

According to the sponsor, Senator Kieckhefer, SB161 was modeled after Arizona's FinTech sandbox.

 

Wyoming

Wyoming is the second state to introduce a regulatory sandbox program after Arizona.

See Blog post dated 6/6/2019

 

Texas

Senate Bill 860 filed on 2/15/2019 would create a regulatory sandbox in the office of the Texas Attorney General, modeled on Arizona's. 
See Blog post dated 2/18/2019

 

Illinois

From the Heartland Alliance & the Illinois Asset Building Group

 

Is New Really New?

Financial Technology & its Impact on Low-Income Families

 

Analysis Framework for Sandbox Proposals

 

Arizona's Regulatory Sandbox In The News

 

A letter to CEI and MIJ from the OAG | July 19, 2023 in response to our letter from CEI and MIJ to the OAG | February 23, 2023 re: "Re: Public Records Requests OAG and DIFI" indicates a greater level of transparency to come.

 

Fintech ‘sandboxes’ in Arizona, other states, aim to attract companies

By Sophie Quinton / Stateline | AZ Mirror - June 16, 2021

 

Arizona Fintech Sandbox Attains Further International Recognition

AG Press Release | October 24, 2019

"Joins Global Financial Innovation Network; Signs New Cooperation Agreement with Polish Financial Supervision Authority"

 

CEI Letter to Arizona AG Re: Align Income Share Funding in Arizona Regulatory Sandbox Program | September 11, 2019

 

Arizona FinTech Sandbox Updates from the AG | Press Release, Sep 10, 2019 (See also Updates, Sep 10, 2019)

 

MIJ Letter to Governor Ducey re: "Request that Transparency and Public Oversight be an Affirmative Part of the Regulatory Sandbox Program" | June 28, 2019

 

CEI Letter to Governor Ducey with a request to Veto House Bill 2177 | Center for Economic Integrity, March 28, 2019

 

MIJ Letter to Governor Ducey with a Request to Veto House Bill 2177 | William E. Morris Institute for Justice, March 27, 2019

 

Ducey signs bill creating PropTech sandbox, AZBigMedia | AZ Business News, March 21, 2019

 

Have you heard of fintech? It can help with your finances, but beware of these risks, by Russ Wiles | Arizona Republic, March 17, 2019

 

FINTECH AND CONSUMER PROTECTION: A Snapshot, by Lauren Saunders | NCLC, March 2019

 

Comments submitted to the CFPB re: Policy on No-Action Letters and the Product Sandbox, feature an Overview of the Arizona Sandbox, Section 10.3.1, pp 48-52.  February 11, 2019

 

Are fintech sandboxes a consumer protection desert?

Lauren Saunders, Opinion Contributor | The Hill | November 29, 2018

 

Arizona sandbox gives fintech start-ups a regulatory path to US

Jemima Kelly, Financial Times | November 11, 2018

Two more companies accepted into Arizona’s Fintech sandbox

Tim Gallen – Digital Editor, Phoenix Business Journal | November 1, 2018

 

Arizonans are unwitting subjects of state’s tech experiment

Tim Steller, Arizona Daily Star | March 31, 2018

 

 

CEI Brief

Arizona Regulatory Sandbox Program **updated 10/2023**

 

CEI Factsheet

Title Lenders and Consumer Lenders Should Play by the Same Rules in AZ ** updated 01/2022**

 

Coalition Letter

Letter to Attorney General on 07/24/2018

 

Attorney General's Office

Arizona Sandbox Participants

 

Arizona Sandbox Alumni

 

Cooperation Agreement Relating to Innovative Functions between the Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan and The Office of the Arizona Attorney General - signed 09/26/2018

 

Memorandum Of Understanding obtained via Public Records request, October 16, 2018. (A second Public Records request in October 2019 produced a copy of the MOU with the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, signed 08/15/2019, with identical wording to that of the MOU with Taiwan).  On file with CEI.

 

Arizona Sandbox Participants

 

  • GiveCorporation Inc., March 3, 2023 "Software providing merchant services and more with innovative state-of-the-art fraud detection."

  • Yield Park, LLC, March 23, 2022
    "Cash management tool utilizing digital dollar custodians and decentralized finance protocols."

 

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