On December 12, 2017, a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a state regulator’s lawsuit challenging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (“OCC“) federal-fintech-charter effort, finding that legal challenges to the initiative were premature. In an order filed Tuesday, the judge found that the lawsuit filed in May by New York’s Superintendent for Financial Services Maria Vullo lacked merit, because the OCC’s initiative hasn’t been implemented yet. To view the full article, click here.