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How will new regulations affect China’s online payments market?

Banking 2020

China has introduced new draft rules that are intended to tighten regulations governing online payments in the country. Therefore, proposals issued by the country’s central bank will aim to add “much-needed safeguards” to tackle these issues, the Wall Street Journal reports. The impact of tougher regulations.

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Varo Money gets new backers as it nears completion of its bank charter

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The mobile bank raised $241 million in its Series D round of funding, and expects to receive approval from regulators to become a nationally chartered bank this summer.

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A Five-Step Action Plan to Mobilize ‘Mobile First’

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Hard as it is to fathom, we’ve just seen digital banking morph from “important” to “existential” status in one week’s time, and banks and credit unions that aren’t able to market, sell and serve their customers in an entirely mobile capacity are now facing an existential threat. The question we face now, though, isn’t whether.

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Predicting the Future? Digital Banking in 2015

Banking 2020

As readers, you indicated your interest in this year’s top trends on the site including financial regulations on marijuana , banking profitability , online-only banks and the mobile banking revolution.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

Banking 2020

For now, the biggest news regarding HFT is that there probably won’t be real news for a while—it’s being reported that for now, at least, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) won’t institute a new set of regulations to curb alleged violations in this contentious arena. It would be nice if those changes happened on our terms.

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M-Pesa open API part of wider payments progress

Banking 2020

Open APIs are a key part of wider transformation in the banking industry and will become much more common as regulation forces banks to open up their systems. The move comes just as the banking industry gears up for major changes to payment rules that will mean they have to open up their platforms to third party developers.

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This Week’s Reads: Passwords, Bank Branches, Fintech

Banking 2020

: A recent survey found that 23% of consumers choose to use their smartphones as their primary access point for their checking accounts, showing a significant amount of consumers who choose mobile banking over their bank branch. What have you been reading? Let us know in the comments section below or Tweet @bankingdotcom.

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