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Thailand strives to catch up to Asian markets on digital banking

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Thailand is laying the foundations for standalone digital banks as it strives to catch up with other Asian markets that are allowing such changes, according to its central bank governor. “At

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JPMorgan Chase To Open UK Digital Bank By Year’s End

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JPMorgan Chase is taking steps to open a digital bank in the U.K. The banking firm has been talking with London regulators about the idea, according to The Financial Times on Saturday (Feb. bank Goldman Sachs launched a digital bank called Marcus in the U.K. has a lot of players in the banking realm.

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Pandemic Impact Affects Singapore Digital Bank License Decisions

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The COVID-19 crisis continues to upend the economy, including even the world of digital banking. As previously reported in this space, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank, announced its intention to issue five digital banking licenses last year. That was before the pandemic hit.

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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Monetary Authority Of Singapore: What It Will Take To Win Digital Banking Licenses

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Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants in the European Union (EU) have had some time to get used to both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Australian regulators are still deciding how Open Banking will affect FIs within their country.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security. The Data Privacy Twist .

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Credit Unions Unite Behind Digital Banking

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That help is forthcoming, as in the case of the Central Bank of Ireland , which is changing regulations to favor more CU lending with higher limits. There is a sense, however, that CUs themselves bear responsibility for falling behind the digital banking trends that first took hold with consumers.