CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help. Staying Updated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

In addition, Guo noted that many of the businesses that started as part of Dianrong’s expansion have now become “heavy burdens with unbearable high costs” due to the regulations. 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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

According to Brad Fauss, president and CEO of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, the recently released regulations on prepaid cards from the Consumer Finance Protection Board could be another instance of good intentions gone wrong. The updated regulations are slated to take effect Oct. About The Tracker.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. Both are alumni of our FinTech Innovation Lab. There are hidden costs too.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Following on from my previous blog introducing the new year in the Fintech Innovation programme, I wanted to turn the focus onto the emergence of RegTech—technologies that address the challenge and cost of regulatory compliance. Both are alumni of our FinTech Innovation Lab. There are hidden costs too.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 5, 2019

Earlier this year, Wyoming became the second state to create a financial technology (fintech) sandbox by enacting the “ Financial Technology Sandbox Act ” (Sandbox Act). Arizona was the first state to create a fintech sandbox and we will soon be publishing a blog post about Utah’s new fintech sandbox.)

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Since the California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) became effective on January 1, the state’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has wasted no time in asserting its expanded jurisdiction over consumer financial services providers. (The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

As reported by the Gulf Times , the Qatar Central Bank adopted new regulations in December that focus on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The new ban states virtual asset services include the exchange or transfer of virtual assets, or the exchange between virtual assets and fiat currencies.

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stories of improper conduct, and new regulations on data protection and privacy such as GDPR, continued to dominate the business headlines, moving from water-cooler conversation to “what about us?” Innovating in the open. GRC Coming of Age in 2018. Drive efficiency across risk & compliance processes. Risk-aware decisions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Open Banking regulations have gotten FinTech innovators’ brains churning over how to take advantage of the troves of data that traditional banks have typically kept locked away. On the SWIFT side, treasurers have definitely learned a lesson,” Gullers said. They realize SWIFT is not foolproof.”. Gullers said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Collaboration between FinTechs and banks. And, much to the relief of corporates, the continuing focus on B2B payments innovation. We are definitely seeing more innovation in the cross-border B2B space in the last two years than we have ever before,” he recently told PYMNTS. “We That’s where FinTech comes in.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. Financial regulators may want to begin looking at not only regulating blockchain, but how blockchain can help in their own regulatory efforts — in this case, to ensure proper safeguards and controls in the banking sector.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 21, 2018

The Treasury suggests that federal banking regulators take action to resolve this ambiguity. The report assumes that “data aggregators and consumer fintech application providers are subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)” and that “the Safeguards Rule appropriately addresses” data security concerns with data aggregation activities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

His definition of RegTech is automating highly manual processes or high-cost centers to achieve a new level of scale, but this definition can mean different things depending on the business itself. Big banks are realizing that, in order to be competitive with the new crowd of FinTech players, automation is necessary.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2017

The rise of APIs in banking and FinTech can unlock greater usability of innovative solutions but also presents some difficult questions for the space. But today, when an API connects a bank and FinTech, for instance, those participants all have bilateral agreements between each individual collaborator for each API. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Challengers see fraud protection as especially important, particularly as they attempt to ween customers away from legacy FIs and their own nimbler FinTech competitors. is definitely helpful in terms of information sharing and in discovering things as quickly and as in-real-time as possible.”. N26 officially entered the U.S.

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Insights on Business

JULY 20, 2017

I wasn’t particularly inspired by the Wikipedia definition , so I’ll give you mine. Regulations, such as Payment Services Directive (PSD2), are forcing banks to “open up”, enabling customers to easily share data with third parties. The fintech hub. It also creates its own products and has its own back-office operations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

FinTechs led this charge and fueled much of the innovation. It’s been definitively shown that businesses and individuals will pay reasonable fees or percentages to receive their funds instantly. And as consumers continue to warmly embrace instant money, old definitions and practices are becoming obsolete almost overnight.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

” Perhaps one of the biggest challenges for this space is that the exact definition of the middle market isn’t exactly clear. There are others who will state that the definition of mid-market can hinge on the segment of business that is being discussed.” “We are more than welcoming them.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

It was the (initially) small FinTech startups that delivered a collective shakeup to the small business (SMB) lending industry. view and from a global view, the banks are going to come back in full force, including Barclays and others, and then, on top of that, you’re going to have definite presence of Amazon players,” said Mills.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 11, 2019

This bill created the nation’s third regulatory sandbox program for fintechs, after Arizona , which enacted sandbox legislation in March 2018, and Wyoming , which enacted sandbox legislation in February of this year. Notably, Utah’s definition expressly includes blockchain technology. The sponsor of Utah’s legislation, Rep.

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Insights on Business

JUNE 28, 2018

The key difference with these topics, which both play into the open banking agenda, is that they enable banks to innovate with the systems they already have in place. Through this initiative, we are already seeing the start of more a more competitive, collaborative and innovative banking industry. When one door closes, many more open.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

While banks and rival FinTech companies are often able to more quickly adopt and release new technological solutions to their customers, one of the areas in which credit unions have managed to be highly competitive with their financial rivals is customer service. Member-driven Innovation. A Small Pond to Fish in’.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions’ emphasis on member relationships is one of the main factors that distinguishes them from large banks and FinTechs. Larger banks and well-funded FinTechs can create dedicated security operation centers staffed by experts, but CUs often do not have the budgets to offer round-the-clock active protection.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Meanwhile, each particular geographic market has its own set of regulations, geopolitical and compliance demands. These five pain points Althaus identified are not new revelations: The B2B payments space is notorious for being slow, expensive and seemingly allergic to innovation. Time For Change.

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Insights on Business

MAY 1, 2019

Information relevant to the institution’s risk profile may take the form of proposed regulations, request for comment, final rules, guidelines, adoptions, authorizations & MOUs, decisions and orders, exemption orders, policies, notices, news release, amendments, sanctions, warnings, and bulletins among others.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

B2B: The trillion dollar industry that gets overshadowed in innovation by consumer gee-wizardry tech, B2B is gaining more attention by the day. Across the pond, estimates Innovate Finance and Pitchbook, the B2B FinTech market has gotten nearly half of all FinTech funding in the European Union through the past year.

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NCR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was developed with the intention of strengthening and unifying data protection for all people within the EU. Three industry executives discussed this subject during a recent Marketforce webinar exploring the ‘regulation revolution’ in financial services.

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NCR

APRIL 24, 2017

The Canadian provider focuses on delivering the front-end technology and services required to achieve the customer experience it is looking for, leaving traditional bank functions such as card issuing and money holding to Canada’s OSFI-regulated Peoples Trust. million (US$970,000) in transactions.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In the United States, a customer must opt-in to this service for debit and ATM card transactions (required by the 2010 update to Regulation E) and a flat fee is applied per the terms and conditions of the program offered by the bank. In 2014, the Bureau moved to recategorize overdraft on prepaid cards as a “credit feature” under regulation Z.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Setting the stage for open banking, PSD2 is meant to promote innovation, where new business models emerge and leaders are born. The revised directive PSD2 aims to build interconnections between traditional banks and TPPs, many of whom are FinTechs. Value-Added Services = Profits for Banks. Find more information here.).

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Tefkin

JANUARY 5, 2016

While banks are still experiencing the effect of the crisis notably through restrictive regulation and a continuing string of financial scandals, their public messaging is one of innovation and change. Large scale projects are also by definition multi parties and can benefit from a smart contract infrastructure.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2022

CB Insights has unveiled the winners of the fifth annual Fintech 250 — a list of the 250 most promising private fintech companies worldwide. . GET the list of 2022 fintech 250 companies. Get an Excel file with the entire Fintech 250, CB Insights’ annual ranking of the 250 most promising fintech startups in the world.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 8, 2017

Earlier this week, we attended the LendIt USA conference in New York City, a leading annual fintech conference, at which CFPB Director Richard Cordray and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry both spoke. Comptroller Curry said that the OCC definitely has authority to grant special purpose charters without new legislation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Deloitte recently asked what we should make of “regtech” in a new report titled, “RegTech is the new FinTech: How agile regulatory technology is helping firms better understand and manage their risks.” Compared to “insurtech” – regtech firms have been prominent players in the fintech firmament for years. ” Indeed.

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