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UK Retail Banks Draft FinTech Alliance Guidelines

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banks and financial technology firms have worked together to create a set of guidelines to improve the relationship between FinTech startups and financial institutions (FIs). USD) a year into financial technology companies. has been a hotbed of FinTech startups. For me, culture is key.

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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

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Those interviewed by the GAO also said that guidelines would be of help in making sure lending is done efficiently. According to the banks that have linked with FinTech firms, such guidelines would help relationships between the parties. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions.

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EU To Examine German Regulators’ Oversight Of Wirecard

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In addition, ESMA told the news service that a previously undisclosed 2017 review of Germany’s adoption of the guidelines had identified shortcomings, including BaFin’s “legalistic approach” to accounting issues, rather than weighing their “economic substance.”.

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 FinTech Collaborations and Frameworks Gain Steam in Asia

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As the site reported, the plan states that stronger FinTech risk controls should be in place, and adds that FinTech can help improve the quality of financial services through the country.

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Global Regulators Work Together On Blueprint For FinTech ‘Sandbox’

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According to Reuters , Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the plans for a global testing bed for new financial technology apps. The EU’s plans for its own blueprint would also include best practices and guidelines for regulatory sandboxes. So far, only 13 of the bloc’s 28 members have set up sandboxes.

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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.

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FTC seeks comment on proposed amendments to safeguards and privacy rules

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The amendments are also designed to ensure that non-bank financial technology entities, fintechs, are subject to cybersecurity standards similar to those that banks are subject to under the FFIEC interagency guidelines.