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RegTech and Insurance Remain Hot with Seed-Stage VCs

Bank Innovation

Compliance, insurance, and workflow solutions: these are the most interesting areas for a seed-stage fintech investor right now. Chris Fortunato, principal at KEC Ventures, named compliance and insurance as two of his biggest current focuses during Bank Innovation’s “For the Love of Fintech” meetup yesterday.

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Morgan Stanley's Gorman says new bank capital rules will be 'wound back'

American Banker

James Gorman, chair and CEO of Morgan Stanley, expressed optimism in an interview Wednesday that the proposed Basel III endgame capital proposal would "definitely change" before it is finalized.

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Demystifying AI for risk and compliance

Insights on Business

A recent explosion of AI applications is taking place in financial institutions, particularly in the area of risk and compliance. So how is AI helping risk and compliance processes? Risk and compliance departments suffer from massive data loads and exhausting regulatory requirements. That still sounds complicated, doesn’t it?

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FDIC issues final rule on brokered deposits and interest rate limits applicable to less than well capitalized institutions

CFPB Monitor

The FDIC has issued a final rule that establishes a new framework for analyzing whether deposits made through deposit arrangements qualify as “brokered deposits” and amends the methodology for calculating the interest rate restrictions that apply to less than well capitalized insured depository institutions (IDIs). Interest rate limits.

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U.S. Regulations to Consider When Managing a Cryptocurrency Fund

Perficient

There is good reason for this shift in view; according to Marc Bernegger, co-founder of crypto fund AltAlpha Digital, “after last year’s explosion of crypto hedge funds around the globe, there are now over 400 active funds, excluding those focused on venture capital.”

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Corporates Brace For Cloud Computing Accounting Changes

PYMNTS

It also provides a new standard for companies that struggle with the implementation of the technology, according to a report by Compliance Week. The capitalized costs will appear on the balance sheet in the same line as the prepaid costs for the hosting agreement. The new information was released in Accounting Standards Update No.

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The benefits of micro-lending programs

Independent Banker

“There is a lot of time and energy spent, not only making sure that credit decisions are appropriate, but also managing the compliance aspect,” Maher says. Banks could pool their resources or leverage the expertise or resources of a bank in a particular location to put capital to work.

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