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Turning Compliance Burden Into FinTech-Regulator Collaboration

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Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. In recent years, the market has gone from one struggling with high financial illiteracy and limited card acceptance, to a bright spot in Europe for FinTech innovation. Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment.

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The Future Of Compliance: Using Data Better

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and compliance teams would manually check onboarding customers to make sure their records were clear. Wiping out the manual process and handling compliance in an automated fashion can propel companies forward,” Meier said. A client who passed through compliance checks on day one might not be compliant on day 500, for example.

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FinTechs Raise Funding For Supplier Payments, Compliance Automation

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Venture capital funding landed at supplier payment and compliance automation firms this week, among other B2B innovators that raised money. Strike Graph , a compliance automation firm, has launched with a $3.9 PYMNTS rounds up the latest funding rounds below. Strike Graph. million Madrona Venture Group-led seed round.

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How FinTechs Help Merchants With GDPR Compliance

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FinTech firms are keeping a pulse on the latest regulations and helping their clients comply with them. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for instance, went into effect last May, and penalties are just starting to be enforced. That level is treating data as if it were your data.

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Banks, FinTechs Find New Open-Data Use Cases

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Banks and FinTechs continue to discover new opportunities in unlocking corporate clients’ financial data, with banks embracing data integration for their own product development initiatives, and FinTechs finding new ways to collaborate with each other. Mastercard Taps FinTech for Biz Card Boost.

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Visa Unveils FinTech Partnership Program In Europe

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Fintech Partner Connect will “support new ways for businesses and consumers to seamlessly and securely pay, get paid, send money and more,” a spokesperson for the credit card and financial services giant said in an email announcing the new program on Visa on Wednesday (Nov.

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The Bank-FinTech Collaboration Model Goes Global

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With more financial institutions (FIs) turning to external third-party FinTechs to strengthen their small- to medium-sized business (SMB) and corporate offerings, the collaboration model is proliferating across national borders. BNL Goes Live With Tink. ICICI Adds AlignBooks Technology. ní banka Taps Temenos. The Czech Republic’s Komer?ní

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