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FHFA announces Office of Financial Technology

CFPB Monitor

On July 18, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) announced the launch of a new Office of Financial Technology with the goal of advancing effective risk management as it evaluates fintech developments in the housing finance space. In the introduction to the RFI, the FHFA noted President Biden’s March 2022 executive order.

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Geolocation Puts A Pin In Anti-Fraud Solutions

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With it, financial institutions need to strengthen their compliance to mitigate the risk of running afoul of the law. Certainly, the use and availability of cryptocurrencies is another emerging area that is contending with its own unique set of compliance issues, but it is also one Wingert said appears to be closing gaps in regulation.

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Blockchain for KYC: Game-changing RegTech Innovation

Insights on Business

One of the best things about working at IBM—and in the RegTech field in particular—is meeting daily with the engineers and developers who are driving technological innovation in the financial industry. Customer Experience. Those types of capabilities are very difficult to achieve without using blockchain technology.

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How Bitbuy Is Keeping Crime Out Of Crypto

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billion is estimated to have been lost to cryptocurrency scams, thefts and fraud in the first quarter of 2019, and cybercriminals and scammers are not the only ones putting digital asset users at risk. Tackling such fraud issues requires cryptocurrency trading platforms to take a variety of approaches. More than $1.2 Low-Friction KYC.

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Deep Dive: Cracking Down On Cryptocurrency Exchange Cybercrime With AML/KYC Compliance

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Cryptocurrency is one of the fastest-moving industries in the digital world, with a market that was valued at $1.03 Bitcoin is one of the most famous names in the cryptocurrency space, accounting for $6 billion in daily transactions among 153 million registered user addresses. Cryptocurrency-related crimes totaled $4.3

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IBM playing key role in Canadian summit to modernize payment systems

Insights on Business

While the advances in Payments processing are clear, there still remains a number of areas where further education is necessary, additional trust and security is required, and advances made in payments technology are still needed. Compliance. Cryptocurrencies. Enter, the Payments Canada Summit. Topics include: AI. Biometrics.

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Our 7 Questions to Prevent Bad Bank Technology

South State Correspondent

The most significant problem with bank innovation is that bankers see or hear about a sexy piece of technology at a conference or at another bank and then acquire it. The new piece of technology ends up solving a known problem but, in the process, creates more problems, and risks, than it solves.