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Report: $50B In Cryptocurrency Moved Out Of China

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While Chinese traders are limited to the purchase of up to $50,000 of foreign currency annually, the volume suggests stablecoins could be being used to circumvent the regulation, according to Chainalysis , the New York-based provider of regulatory compliance software. But the government has cracked down on some of these methods.

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Trade Finance Rejection Rates Accelerate

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However, both sides struggle with making trade finance profitable, and maintaining compliance. A recent survey from Strategic Treasurer found that 77 percent of banks point to KYC as the biggest hindrance to supply chain finance operations. .” ” Below, PYMNTS looks at some of the data points behind these conclusions.

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Navigating Merchants’ Bumpy Ride To SCA Compliance In 2020

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And if we’re being realistic, he said, there is really no end in sight to that confusion, at least in the immediate future, because there are so many nuances per region. What will that compliance look like in the in the EEA and around the world? That, Kakkar told PYMNTS, depends very much on location and merchant type. Kakkar said.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

The irony here is that more than half the banks we recently surveyed had some goal and metric around asset growth. Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Noticeably absent from the list below is growth.

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Growing your firm’s advisory services: Financial management

Abrigo

The transition from compliance to consulting makes sense: tax season is just that, a “season,” and nearly 60 percent of respondents to a Sageworks survey indicated they saw an increase in total revenue by adding financial services to their accounting practice. The advantage of working capital is obvious to some degree.

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GDPR Challenges Indian Firms While FinTechs Eye Charters With Caution

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Consider India, where EY estimates in a recent survey that in India, companies are finding it a challenge to navigate GDPR. As the research shows, 63 percent of respondents to the survey — those who were, in fact, aware of the mandates — were non-compliant. FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters.

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Bill To Ease Regulation on Smaller FIs Before U.S. House

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A bill that would give regional banks a break on regulation was before the U.S. Groshans said that such financial institutions as Zions, Regions Financial, Citizens Financial, Huntington, American Express and Keycorp would benefit from the law. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act , S.