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Former SEC Head Arthur Levitt Says SoFi Lost Their Chance of Becoming a Bank

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·Sep. 18, 2017·1 min read

Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, says the recent scandal at SoFi has cost them approval of their special bank charter; he tells the FT, “So for a company as aggressive as SoFi, I think the chances of that happening were slim. Now they become almost impossible.” Source

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