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In Ireland, Banking Federation Promotes FinTech Foresight

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The Banking & Payments Federation Ireland said it had established a FinTech Foresight Group — further evidence of collaborations between traditional financial institutions and tech upstarts. That series will focus on global technology trends across financial services and how FinTechs and banks can work together across those efforts.

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Banking 2025: Can regulators catch up to tech changes?

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Policymaking has moved at an agonizingly slow speed compared with the exponential growth of technology, leaving regulators and lawmakers facing a huge task over how to keep up. .

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Top Banks Keep Ahead Of FinTechs’ Competitive Threat

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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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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Shifting Latin America’s Open Banking Plans

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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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Google To Team With Banks To Offer Consumer Checking Accounts

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The delicate balance between bank-FinTech competition and collaboration continues to teeter in the U.S. In the absence of open banking regulations, FinTechs continue to enter the market, collaborating with bank partners to offer their own financial services, which often compete directly with other FIs.

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McKinsey Bank Survey Shows 50 Percent Not Strong Enough To Survive Slump

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FinTech startups and tech giants are bringing new competition and banks risk “becoming footnotes to history” as regulations ease, making it easier for companies to offer financial services. Whereas FinTechs earmark 70 percent of budgets to advancements, legacy banks set aside only 35 percent. Amazon in the U.S.

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WhatsApp Payments Eyes Indonesia Expansion

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Facebook is in talks with several FinTech companies in Indonesia about bringing mobile transaction services to the country through the WhatsApp chat app, according to a report by Reuters. Analysts say the country’s eCommerce sector is going to experience explosive growth in the next few years, reaching $100 billion by 2025.

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