PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hong Kong’s chief securities regulator is calling on the world regulators to get on the same page when it comes to Facebook’s Libra to avoid the “real risk of regulatory arbitrage.”. “If But then came Facebook’s Libra, and the international regulatory community had to get its act together very rapidly.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Anyone in a regulated industry — and that’s just about all of them — are also plenty dubious about using cryptocurrencies as the processing rails for supporting those pilots and incorporating them into their longer-term plans should their pilots show promise. And to learn.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2018, companies from 31 countries and 19 categories — spanning payments, digital banking, insurance, and more — made it onto the CB Insights 2018 Fintech 250 list. Below, we dive into where the Fintech 250 Class of 2018 startups are now. Our call for submissions is now open for the third annual CB Insights Fintech 250 list.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Facebook’s cryptocurrency would not help underserved communities, despite the claims of its CEO, who is slated to appear before Congress this week.

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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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The Financial Brand

JUNE 2, 2021

Acting chief at the national banking regulator wants to end fragmented views on financial innovation and has made CRA reform a top priority. The post New OCC Chief Targets Fintech/Banking Deals & Crypto for Scrutiny appeared first on The Financial Brand - Banking Trends, Analysis & Insights.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

A mix of players, FinTech firms pose threats and opportunities. Call them disruptors, upstarts or the voguish FinTech companies. Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. By Kelly Pike.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Connecting more than 8,000 decision makers and thought leaders across the industry, Sibos 2017 in Toronto was once again the platform where the global financial community explored the disruptions and opportunities in payments driven by innovation, technology and new business models. Open APIs was the standout technology at the conference.

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Insights on Business

MAY 1, 2018

This summit is “the ideal meeting point for the Payments community to come together to understand the future-state of Payments,” and IBM is thrilled to be involved. Cryptocurrencies. Regulation. Enter, the Payments Canada Summit. Transformational change in Payments ecosystem. Topics include: AI. Biometrics. Blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Zug is a small town near Zürich with only about 30,000 residents, yet it is impacting the FinTech world in a big way. In an email interview with PYMNTS, he said that Zug has a “forward-thinking government, strong participation from regulatory bodies, a first-class FinTech ecosystem, as well as Switzerland ’s tax-friendly reputation.”

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 4, 2022

These fintech and banking trends should be on financial institutions’ radar in the year ahead. This list of top banking and fintech trends for 2022 won’t tell anyone anything they haven’t already heard about. In 2022, community banks and credit unions will have to revisit and overhaul their overdraft policies and strategies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

He said community banks and credit unions (CUs) have tended be on the trailing edge when it comes to digital. With the new regulations, what needs to be considered is that most organizations don’t even know what data exists in their organization,” said Hajimusa. So, there is a balance that needs to be struck.”. Looking At The Future.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Second, Fintechs (e.g., Don’t get us wrong.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

We love the robot as much as the next Fintech commentator. American financial regulation is an alphabet soup, and has grown out of politics and crises. Targeting banks and money services businesses allows for jurisdiction and regulation of the choke points (i.e., Second, Fintechs (e.g., Don’t get us wrong.

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American Banker

JUNE 7, 2020

Meanwhile, reforming the Community Reinvestment Act, he says, can “unblock opportunities” in minority neighborhoods. Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks says financial institutions are needed more than ever to “sustain existing businesses” and help entrepreneurs rebuild.

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 1, 2019

Goldman Sachs entered and dominated personal digital lending, runs a neobank and roboadvisor, bought a large digital wealth footprint in United Capital, launched a credit card in partnership with Apple, and is now looking into cryptocurrency stablecoins ?—?something as it has over and over again across Fintech. What about you?

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s a lot to say about the overlap of Fintech and blockchain, but let’s find the very edge of the frontier and focus right there. If you withdraw your Ether, you get charged an interest rate determined by an open governance community. all Fintech unicorns?—?that It’s like watching Mint.com emerge in 2007.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Funding to the fintech sector maintained pace this week with another quarter-billion ($234.3 The biggest pure-equity round went to Finovate alum, CoverHound , an insurance portal gaining favor with the VC community. The post Fintech Fundings: 17 Companies Raise $235 Million Week Ending Sep 25 appeared first on Finovate.

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BankUnderground

AUGUST 9, 2022

The metaverse is in its early stages of development, and there is disagreement on whether it should be built by major tech companies in a centralised format, or in a community-owned manner – the open-metaverse. Types of cryptoasset include non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrencies, utility and security tokens.

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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. Regulation: What are your regulators concerned about?

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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. In 2021, there were more than 120 fintech IPOs in the U.S., Acquisition of the Year: Bank Acquiring a Fintech. Oh, what a mere 12 months can do.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

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Bussman Advisory

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

While regulators around the world have generally been attentive to the rise of ICOs, and have worked hard to understand them, there are still a number of thorny legal and regulatory issues to be addressed. There is disparity between jurisdictions and most countries have yet to address cryptocurrency tax questions in a meaningful way.

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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. FinTech Innovation and Cooperation in the Cards? FinTech Innovation and Cooperation in the Cards? Last Monday (Feb.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 19, 2020

The results say more about consumer Fintech investing than about any company in particular. Next came the arithmetic of how much these companies raised, and how together they have 15 million users and $10 billion of European Fintech unicorn enterprise value. Grab the financial model we built for this analysis here. It’s not impossible.

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 22, 2019

If you are a locally powerful sovereign in the local feudal community, you might be able to hire a craftsman like Michelangelo to paint the ceiling once every twenty years. Or perhaps it is the trade-copy Fintechs like Covestor or Gimmer. That is, if it isn’t stomped into the ground by regulators first. Looking for more?

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Lex Sokolin

JULY 22, 2019

If you are a locally powerful sovereign in the local feudal community, you might be able to hire a craftsman like Michelangelo to paint the ceiling once every twenty years. Or perhaps it is the trade-copy Fintechs like Covestor or Gimmer. That is, if it isn’t stomped into the ground by regulators first. Looking for more?

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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. Financial reform has been top of mind for the newly installed Democratic majority in the House. The CEO names are well-known.

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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. Financial reform has been top of mind for the newly installed Democratic majority in the House. The CEO names are well-known.

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