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BIS Sees Boons, Risks As FinTech Credit Gains Traction

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When it comes to FinTech firms and lending, might it be that what we don’t know could hurt us? Viewed from high levels, the activity itself (lending, that is), has taken off in some of the countries one might expect, marked by relatively higher incomes, and where financial regulation might be relatively less stringent.

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FinTechs Press States To Streamline Regulations

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The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) said earlier this month that it had put in place a set of action items to standardize the national experience of FinTechs and non-bank entities. Liu pointed out that the online database of the aforementioned state licensing and FinTech guidance will go live later in 2019.

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Anticipation For Amazon’s SMB Lending Disruption Grows

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It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. Their next target could be small business lending, and according to some experts, it’s fast approaching the market. When I look at it from a U.S. New reports in Bloomberg on Wednesday (Oct.

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CSBS agrees to implement recommendations from fintech advisory panel

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The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) announced last week that it has agreed to implement 14 recommendations made by its Fintech Industry Advisory Panel (Advisory Panel). It has 33 fintech company members that engage with the CSBS Emerging Payments and Innovation Task Force and other state regulators.

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What Can Banks Learn From The FinTechs?

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This is definitely related to the inflection point that the banking industry is today both from their own inability to drive change for rapid digitization and also to address the threat from non-banking firms. Examples include Lending Club and Zopa in lending, Nutmeg and Weathfront in Wealth Management; WePay and Stripe for Payments.

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Chinese P2P Lender Blames Gov’t For Growth Decline

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However, though the company expanded quickly in 2017 and 2018, Beijing’s crackdown on certain lending practices forced Dianrong to decline in the second half of 2018. We hope regulators can give the industry a clear and definite timetable, and give guidance and a ray of hope for companies that stick to compliance,” Guo said.

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What Can Banks Learn From The FinTechs?

Insights on Business

This is definitely related to the inflection point that the banking industry is today both from their own inability to drive change for rapid digitization and also to address the threat from non-banking firms. Examples include Lending Club and Zopa in lending, Nutmeg and Weathfront in Wealth Management; WePay and Stripe for Payments.

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