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For Blockchain Adoption, FIs Have to Solve Compliance First

Bank Innovation

The next big thing in financial services won’t make it very far off the ground if FIs don’t innovate with an eye towards compliance.

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Blockchain for KYC: Game-changing RegTech Innovation

Insights on Business

IBM RegTech Innovations. One of the best things about working at IBM—and in the RegTech field in particular—is meeting daily with the engineers and developers who are driving technological innovation in the financial industry. Consider, for example, the blockchain space. Figure 2: The Value Proposition of Blockchain for KYC.

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Synechron’s RegTech Program Aims to Help Banks Reduce Compliance Costs

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE - Technology services provider Synechron launched a regtech program focused on helping its financial services clients on regulatory compliance issues. Although it is called an accelerator, the model of the program is based on Synechron's blockchain project (also called an […].

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A Bank Automation Summit Preview: Key 2023 Banking Automation Trends

Perficient

In the banking industry, RPA is being used to automate a wide range of processes, from loan origination and account opening to back-office processes, such as compliance and accounting. Perficient will also bring insight surrounding the banking industry’s growing use of blockchain to the Summit.

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Bitcoin Daily: PumaPay Blockchain Payment Systems Gets PCI Compliance; OpenBazaar Announces Mobile Crypto Trading App

PYMNTS

Blockchain-based payment system PumaPay has announced the launch of a new cryptobilling solution which has secured PCI (payment card industry) compliance. Lawmakers said that the reason for the exclusion was to prevent the disappearance of cryptocurrencies from the local economy and interfere with innovation.

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Wells Fargo Invests $5M In Blockchain Analysis Startup Elliptic

PYMNTS

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (WFSC) is backing the London-based blockchain analysis firm Elliptic with a $5 million investment, bringing the startup’s Series B round to $28 million, Elliptic announced in a press release on Thursday (Feb. WFSC joins existing investors SBI Group and Santander InnoVentures.

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FinCEN and OCC address cryptocurrency: responsible innovation and pervasive hype

CFPB Monitor

On May 19, 2022, the Associate Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), Alessio Evangelista, spoke at the Chainalysis Links Conference in New York City on the topic of “The Intersection of Cryptocurrencies and National Security.” Responsible Innovation “.