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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

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Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. billion — 91 percent — of those penalties, while European regulators demanded $1.7 imposed a full $23.52

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Kenya Moves To Regulate Digital Lending

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“We have a lot of predatory lending out here, which we want to regulate,” Geoffrey Mwau, director general of budget, fiscal and economic affairs at the country’s treasury, said on Thursday (May 24). Once the money is deposited, Kenyans can spend it anywhere in the country. Suri told the paper the kiosks act as debit cards.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs Harness Machine Learning To Approve SMB Loans More Quickly And Safely

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million SMBs operate across the country and account for 64 percent of new jobs. Only 35 percent of such businesses make it past their first decade in operation. The 2008 recession resulted in government regulators tightening the standards for creditworthiness, increasing the amount of checks that lenders must undergo to approve loans.

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ICC Says Regulation Limits Trade Finance

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Reports in Reuters on Tuesday (May 28) said UBS expects its regulatory costs to remain high in the years ahead after a decade of more stringent regulations leading to heavier, more costly burdens on banks. “That has tied up enormous resources.” “Why is this so significant? “Why is this so significant?”

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

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All of these new FinTechs and digital innovators are changing the landscape as the role of payments rapidly shifts in the broader financial services arena. Before 2008, banks were making a lot of money from a lot of things,” noted Lukies. “Clearly there's regional saturation, which leads to consolidation.”.

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RegTech: what is it and what are the benefits?

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Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. Both are alumni of our FinTech Innovation Lab. There are hidden costs too.

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RegTech: what is it and what are the benefits?

Accenture

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. Both are alumni of our FinTech Innovation Lab. There are hidden costs too.