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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The blueprint for the proposed digital currency seems to offer Beijing extraordinary supervision over the flow of money, giving regulators economic control that most central banks do not have. “We

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Three months in, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation still stymies some firms seeking to comply with new rules and regulations governing data protection and privacy. The regulations would follow a revision to the Payment Services Act seen last year that brought a registration system in Japan.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Marketplace lending. The blockchain can even end world poverty and transform society by making it safer for total strangers to lend each other money — without any third-party intermediary — and without any risk. Marketplace Lending. Blockchain. Digital banks. Blockchain. Take the blockchain. And to learn.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

challenger banking market saw a flurry of venture capital (VC) activity this week, as FinTech firms aim to disrupt small business (SMB) financial services (FinServ). Compliance startup Chainalysis works with law enforcement officials and financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that their cryptocurrency operations are within regulations.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

While the prices of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets have fallen from their 2017 peaks, equity investment into blockchain startups is on pace to hit all-time highs in 2018. See how venture firms, corporates, regulators, and builders are shaping the future of blockchain technology. THE FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECH.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Though equity research services used to be offered for free to clients as part of a bundle with trading services, regulations like the EU’s MiFID II now require that banks must charge for research directly. SMB lending . Capital Float is an India-based startup providing business loans through a lending platform.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Intense industry hype and alarming cryptocurrency volatility have led regulators the world over to perk up their ears to the growing number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Regulators in Japan halted trading at two crypto exchanges, Bit Station and FSHO. A property? A commodity?

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you are a financial advisor or a trust company, you have missed out on $1 trillion in capital appreciation for your customers. And that the capital appreciation that matters?—?cementing American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Here it is. Don’t get us wrong.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

An Expanding Regulatory Perimeter With the collapse of crypto and FTX serving as this generation’s Enron, discussions abounded that the reach of traditional regulators will expand into the fintech, shadow banking, and decentralized finance worlds. Bankers and Techies Joined at the Hip There was a special vibe at this year’s AOBA.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 31, 2022

While regulators cannot be sure what risks the next decade will feature, they can be sure that the set of issues will continuously evolve. This created market dynamics significant enough to raise the cost of lending, and threatened to spill over to the wider economy and amplify the impact of the Covid shock.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Meanwhile new competitors regularly emerge, including person-to-person facilitators such as digital wallet provider Venmo, crowd-funding loan provider Lending Club and real-time cryptocurrency settlement company Ripple. Now it has a small-business financing program, Square Capital. Siphoning customers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies? By connecting to marketplaces via API, the startup is able to scan all listed products for anything that infringes on intellectual property rights or that could violate regional health regulations. A digital U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Tyler and Cameron, who both studied economics at Harvard, are now CEO and president, respectively, of Gemini , a cryptocurrency exchange. Since falling in love with bitcoin, the Winklevoss brothers have invested in several cryptocurrency hardware and software firms to build their bitcoin exchange.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

But in business, money is oxygen, and when the flow of money, from venture capital and private equity firms, or investment from companies willing to commit research and development dollars to a sector starts to dwindle, then several projects do not make it beyond concept to the land of reality. Want another data point?

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Two of the most recent unicorns are vertical payments processor Flywire , which raised a $120M Series E from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Tiger Global, and Adage Capital Management in February 2020 at a $1B valuation, and point-of-sale payments startup Pine Labs, which closed a corporate minority round from Mastercard in January 2020 to reach a $1.6B

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. An RBC Capital Markets report put the average annual sales of an Amazon Go location at about $1.5M. Amazon Lending. Today, Amazon has expanded its business lending to the US and UK. Amazon SMB Lending.

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 1, 2019

fee on Binance, $600M of Tether printed, $200M in DeFi lending This is what it looks like, this change in the atmosphere, the fireflies all lighting up as the night comes in. Every other person had a physics PhD and worked in risk management for large capital markets trading desks. Finance in motion— $1B moved for $0.02 We are here.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Ethereum’s decentralized lending and trading are floating around 2,500 daily users. The lending product above is a bit more complicated. Other things like Compound are essentially a securities lending marketplace?—?you But being a leader doesn’t yet mean celebrating industry victory?—?Ethereum’s

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. savings accounts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We’ve watched the payments industry address changes in customer behavior, shifts in compliance rules (GDPR, UBO, CCPA, EMV), the introduction of cryptocurrencies and the race to move money faster. Financial services players succumb to that temptation less often because they are (rightly so) highly regulated from the get-go, he explained.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

We have poured through the recent 2Q earnings releases, spoken with a rash of institutional bank investors, traded thoughts with analysts, and compiled the following list of concerns that bank stakeholders (employees, shareholders, vendors, and regulators) now have. Top Line Revenue & Lending. Asset Quality.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Digital money solutions for both personal and commercial use, integrating traditional and cryptocurrencies to support multi-currency accounts, transfer and exchange services. Making it easier to comply with global regulations. Capital Markets & WealthTech. Category winner AND overall winner: Wirex. HQ: London. Founded: 2014.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 9, 2022

Types of cryptoasset include non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies, utility and security tokens. This interoperable capacity has been showcased by decentralised finance (DeFi), which replicate financial services such as lending and exchange typically conducted by a centralised authority, but in a decentralised manner.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The total included mega-rounds of $30+ million to three lending plays: FundBox ($50 mil), CommonBond ($35 mil), Orchard Platform ($30 million) and one financial-institution-supported blockchain startup: Chain ($35 mil). Powering marketplace lending. Tags: Regulations, compliance, enterprise, bank management. Orchard Platform.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Gangs in Latin America are increasingly turning to cryptocurrency to operate illegal trades of drugs, guns, sex and people, Reuters reported. Additionally, institutional customers of crypto lending platform BlockFi can now use bitcoin as collateral in risk-managed loan agreements executed on Fidelity Digital Assets, the release stated.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. 2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. Except maybe they did partly.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Anyone who follows the industry knows this focused institution led by Findlay is all about executing the timeless principles of capital management, credit quality, efficiency and customer service. They should have been investing in fintech growth businesses and they had the capital to do it.” Grab some popcorn and watch.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But this very loud and public backlash against cryptocurrencies from banks begs the question: What do banks have to be afraid of? We’ll provide the definitions and analogies you need to know for bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and more. Other cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin Cash, already have low-priced transactions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In fact, noted the publication, no major new financial regulations – the kind that would impose restrictions – have come to vote or even, really, been on the table since Trump took office last January. Capital requirements would be loosened and stress tests would come less than once a year. SEC Eyes Crypto Exchange Activities.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 19, 2020

To a venture capital investor, the embedded option is more attractive given a portfolio structure that requires unicorns. Arguably, Monzo is the most fragile of the three players despite having a banking license for 2 years and having converted 94% of its prepaid card customers into current accounts for deposits and lending.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

You might also be forgiven for thinking that payday lending rules — or a stay of them — would be the subject most illuminated in the spotlight. In one example, as noted by CoinDesk, Pakistan is mandating regulations for the crypto space. An Exchange Shutters. Warmer Climate in Bermuda.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

Banks are among the growing number of financial services giants investing in blockchain startups such as R3 CEV, which is working with an 80+ member consortium of banks, regulators, and technology partners to develop Corda, a blockchain platform designed to be the “new operating system” for financial markets. Cloud storage .

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Among plenty of emerging use cases, the technology aims to create a new and improved payments system for the world — one that’s secure, transparent, decentralized, fast, and uses cryptocurrencies (types of digital cash) as a means of exchange. But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” It turns out that it is pretty hard to get people to care about hard-to-understand investments, and it is hard to get regulators to change their minds about consumer protection around the world all at once.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You are just minding your own business being a start-up, thinking “how many more months of capital do I have until we are bankrupt.” It turns out that it is pretty hard to get people to care about hard-to-understand investments, and it is hard to get regulators to change their minds about consumer protection around the world all at once.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2019

The Trump administration has promised — and, in some cases, has been executing on promises — to roll back at least some of the regulations contained in the Dodd-Frank tenets that took shape a decade ago. Post-crisis reforms have made banks much safer and sounder in three important areas: capital, liquidity and resolution, and recovery.”.

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