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How Opening Bank Data Can Transform SMB Lending

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FinTechs continue to push the envelope to see how far open banking frameworks can go in improving the SMB banking experience, and increasingly, SMB lending is shifting to the center of these collaborative efforts. In the U.K., While more financial service providers in the U.S. “The roadmap to regulation has been in place [in the U.K.]

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Regtech in banking: How emerging technology helps keep banks compliant

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Regtech is simply the use of technology such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and blockchain to improve the way businesses manage regulatory compliance. Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging.

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Regtech in banking: How emerging technology helps keep banks compliant

Abrigo

Regtech is simply the use of technology such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and blockchain to improve the way businesses manage regulatory compliance. Keeping up with OFAC Russian sanctions , customer due diligence regulations, and consumer lending compliance expectations can be challenging.

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Investors Impressed By Mix Of AI And Analytics

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Also landing on the board this week are alternative lending, expense management, cybersecurity and blockchain players. Alternative Lending. The company provides cyber insurance for the enterprise coupled with real-time risk management and mitigation. Blockchain. CCRManager.

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Renaud Laplanche’s Second Act

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Which leads to the interesting case of Renaud Laplanche, the co-founder and former CEO of Lending Club and the co-founder and current CEO of online lender Upgrade. Both Lending Club and Laplanche are currently facing shareholder litigation that claims they concealed material weaknesses in the online lender’s ability to monitor its operations.

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Bitcoin Daily: Latin American Gangs Use Crypto In Money Laundering, Report Says; Data Shows 13 Pct Of Illegal Crypto Went Through Privacy Wallets In 2020

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When it comes to cashing out, crypto exchanges can use blockchain analytics tools like Elliptic’s to identify the use of privacy wallets by their customers, to help ensure that they aren’t depositing proceeds of crime,” said Dr. Tom Robinson, chief scientist at Elliptic, in the post.

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Japan’s Mizuho Launching FinTech Venture

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According to a report in Reuters , Daisuke Yamada, Mizuho’s chief digital innovation officer, said in an interview the company already has around 20 projects in the pipeline to launch the venture with some using blockchain technology and others focused on artificial intelligence in areas including farming and travel.

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