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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In a market without Open Banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter in to the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services — which often compete directly with other financial institutions.

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JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. This steady march toward online banking tools has played a key role in how Brazil’s regulators are structuring its open banking rules.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. British challenger bank Revolut has submitted a banking license application to the U.K.

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MARCH 2, 2018

The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchanges currently operating in Japan will soon form a self-regulating body, after a $530 million heist of digital coins in the region led to investor concerns, Reuters reported today.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

According to new research from Magilla Loans , which offers an anonymous search engine data for both home and business loans, a survey of mortgage and business lenders found plans to originate more than half a trillion dollars’ worth of loans in 2018. percent in 2016. percent in 2016. Citing research from U.K. ” “The U.S.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2019

federal district court in October 2018 by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) to stop the OCC from issuing special purpose national bank (SPNB) charters to fintech companies. The OCC has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in D.C. The OCC’s rule (12 C.F.R. Section 5.20(e)(1)) Section 5.20(e)(1))

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JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) announced last week that it has agreed to implement 14 recommendations made by its Fintech Industry Advisory Panel (Advisory Panel). It has 33 fintech company members that engage with the CSBS Emerging Payments and Innovation Task Force and other state regulators.

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JULY 5, 2018

The vast majority of traditional financial institutions (FIs) plan to increase their collaborative efforts with the FinTech world, according to a PwC report published last year. The two-sided benefits of a bank-FinTech collaboration are certainly beneficial to FinTech firms like additiv.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. Today, 22 of those companies have become unicorns, 17 have exited, and none have shuttered operations. GET THE 102-PAGE q4 2019 FINTECH TRENDS REPORT.

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JULY 8, 2020

Based in Hangzhou, China, the company operates Alipay, an online payment service that debuted in 2004 and has evolved into the world’s largest payment and lifestyle platform, the company said. The Chinese financial services company was valued at $150 billion in a 2018 fundraising round.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Generally speaking, that data sharing paves the way for a streamlined banking experience, especially over online and mobile conduits, via regulated providers. In terms of scale, openbanking.org reports that 300 FinTechs and providers have joined the ecosystem, and more than 2.5 million in 2018 to roughly 6 billion in 2020.

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JULY 27, 2020

Michael Jaffe, the company’s insolvency administrator, said Wirecard has enough liquidity to keep operating for the time being. The $28 billion FinTech leader was once the envy of Europe. Also on Monday, a high-ranking German regulator has called for major changes in response to the Wirecard scandal. a share on Aug.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The financial center operates with its own legal, regulatory and tax infrastructure and traces its roots back to 2005. As reported by the Gulf Times , the Qatar Central Bank adopted new regulations in December that focus on combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 13, 2018

A portion of the Treasury’s report entitled “ A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities, Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation ,” focuses on payments. ( See our legal alert for a discussion of other portions of the Treasury’s report.). On September 20, 2018, from 12 p.m. Current payment methods. Recommendations.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

While there are all sorts of suggestions for what banks will need to look out for in 2018, one factor that they may need to pay particularly close attention to is the rise of a new type of competitor – one that will already be familiar to most customers. The post Is 2018 the year for big tech in banking?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

“Though the industry moved to enable interoperability of mobile wallets in 2018, this is limited to only P2P payments, and is yet to be expanded to both merchant and agent interoperability and even to work seamlessly at P2P,” according to the draft of the Kenya National Payments System 2021-2025 report.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s working-age population is anticipated to go up to nearly one billion by 2030, up from 705 million in 2018, according to the African Development Bank.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

financial institutions (FIs) have been advised to comply with the EU’s Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) regulations despite Brexit, but the U.K. has its own Open Banking initiatives coming into force in 2018, too. As the U.K. ’s entrepreneurs are struggling in today’s financial services climate.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants from other regions have been dipping their toes into the Chinese market, but open banking has compounded the difficulty involved in setting up operations. The country’s government and regulators are keeping pace with those in the European Union and the U.S.

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Insights on Business

MARCH 5, 2019

Reducing costs but appeasing regulators seems like an oxymoron, yet, many AML compliance and operations leaders are being asked to do just that. The question is, how to do this, while keeping the regulators happy? Even better, regulators have recently begun encouraging the application of these techniques.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Treezor is an electronic money issuer and is tied to a regulatory landscape that spans the French regulators and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Separately, B2B payments and international money transfer firm B2B Pay said this past week that it plans to become a regulated financial institution.

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JUNE 28, 2019

The FinTech firm will also serve as the consumer credit card issuer for the AA and the bank’s U.K. However, the bank put the credit business up for sale with a larger strategy to divest some of its operations. FinTech market had a strong showing last year, with venture capital and private equity investments hitting $3.3

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JANUARY 17, 2019

General Electric ‘s divestiture of GE Capital assets continues as MUFG Union Bank announced plans to acquire GE Capital’s Trade Payable Services (TPS) operations. The company said it expected industrial businesses to account for as much as 90 percent of its earnings by 2018, up from 58 percent in 2014.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This prospective growth can largely be attributed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the region’s main regulator, which announced in June 2018 that it would grant five digital banking licenses to third-party companies. Licenses are not meant as free passes into financial domination in Singapore, after all.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 20, 2018

In today’s global marketplace, financial services firms must grapple with competition, increasing regulation and market volatility while also maintaining profitability and growth in a world disrupted by emerging technologies and fintechs. Announced in May 2018, IBM’s acquisition of Armanta Inc., Financial Risk .

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JANUARY 6, 2020

will be expected to open their platforms and application programming interfaces (APIs) to smaller FinTechs and third-party players in ways that comply with PSD2, potentially including SCA. Turkish regulators and government officials spent less time deliberating whether they wanted to implement PSD2 and more considering how to integrate it.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising. 70 percent.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Partnering with fintechs might prove to be a win-win, where established enterprises can accelerate transformation, and fintech startups can quickly deliver value to the enterprise and drive revenue growth. Fintech Partner Panel: The API economy comes to banking (8805A). Learn more about and register for IBM Think 2018 here.

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Payments Source

MAY 17, 2018

Fintechs attending Consensus 2018, the annual cryptocurrency event, said they found promise for a market still trying to find a path to unified operations and wider acceptance within financial services.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Financefeeds reported that the HKMA, in its latest update to implementation of the Open Application Programming Interface (API) Framework for the banking sector, which dates back to July 2018, is readying for the second phase, known as Customer acquisition. million in new funding led by Holtzbrinck Ventures, says TechCrunch.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. From Square to Paypal, a host of fintechs are creating products that let consumers spend money directly out of digital accounts using a physical card. get the 86-page fintech report.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Twenty-five of them were operational worldwide in 2017, and that number had swelled to 40 by September 2018, with 16 more expected to debut by 2020. billion in 2018 to $26.9 billion in 2018 to $26.9 That share rose to 62 percent in 2018, according to the Mercator Advisory Group’s “U.S. Faster Rails.

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JULY 8, 2019

is perhaps the most vocal market in the late B2B payments world, with regulators working to address delayed invoice payments, while FinTechs and banks weigh in on the matter with their own efforts to tackle the issue. Others, however, argue that regulators should take the lead in alleviating the pain of late payments.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? In a recent interview, published by Knowledge@Wharton , he said there are about 40 companies operating in the same rough spaces as PagSeguro with annual revenue of at least $250 million. Revenue hit about $250.5 million in Q1.

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MARCH 18, 2019

Last week, NACHA issued an ACH operations bulletin announcing the delay of the rollout of a third Same Day ACH (SDA) processing window by six months, to March 19, 2021. The regulator notified NACHA that they need more time to evaluate required changes to their system before giving it the green light. A Couple of Important Dots.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

IBM developed it last year to engage the community of banks and fintechs interested in the emerging ecosystem of open banking standards. Agility: Customers expect great digital services, and it is imperative for companies to develop or partner with suitable fintechs to help them launch new products. IBM at Sibos 2018.

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