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OCC’s New Office of Financial Technology Portends Increased Supervisory Activity

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The OCC’s announcement that it will establish an Office of Financial Technology to “bolster the agency’s expertise and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing banking landscape” should come as no surprise to those who have been following recent pronouncements of Acting Comptroller Michael J.

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UK Financial Watchdog Says Wirecard Cooperative But Assets To Stay Frozen 

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We cannot lift the restrictions without reassuring ourselves that the firm has been able to satisfy all our concerns, for example that all clients’ money is safe,” the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said in a statement. “We The United Kingdom’s regulatory authority said Wirecard AG was correcting issues raised by the $2.1

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Kuwait Debuts FinTech Sandbox

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As evidence that sandboxes are ever-increasingly a global phenomenon, Kuwait’s central bank put forth guidelines this week that are geared toward companies seeking to meld financial technology (FinTech) and financial services (FinServ). The sandbox, Reuters reported, has four phases. FinTech Efforts In Africa.

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i2c Teams With Zero To Reimagine Banking

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To help reimagine the traditional banking experience, digital banking and payments processing technology and infrastructure provider i2c is teaming with Zero. As a financial technology company, Zero lets consumers experience the things they enjoy about debit cards while using a credit card, i2c said in a press release.

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London FinTech Raises $4M For ‘Social’ Bank

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A financial technology company called B-Social has raised £3.2 The funds are just the ambitious company’s beginning steps toward its goal of becoming a wholly licensed bank — one that completely redefines what banking means and framing it around social interactions.

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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

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And CNBC notes that, conversely, the KBW Bank Index is down by roughly a third. Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with Bancorp Bank. The partnership model is an increasingly popular setup for financial technology startups that don’t have their own bank charters.

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How Synchrony Financial Is Upgrading Its AML Strategy

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Money laundering has always troubled financial institutions, but today’s digital banking system creates additional complexities as fraudsters around the world take advantage of financial technologies to launder approximately $2 trillion annually.

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