PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Pivoting from concerns and risks around financial technology innovation in the banking system, the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency said the agency will roll out a new framework for regulating marketplace lending. The agency regulates, supervises and charters national banks and is an independent bureau within the Treasury.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Valdis Dombrovskis , the EU’s executive vice president of the European Commission for an Economy that Works for People, told attendees of the Digital Finance Outreach 2020 , a series of events for the 27-nation bloc on financial technology companies, that Europe must become the leader in crafting rules for digital finance.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Chief of Russia’s Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina said she doesn’t see any pertinent or obvious reason to create a national digital currency, according to a report by Russian News Agency TASS. The regulator made the remarks at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has gotten the ball rolling for financial technology firms trying to operate a national platform, but the FDIC and Federal Reserve should act to remove other policy roadblocks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Plus, the United Kingdom and the European Union are set to begin discussions on financial services sector regulation now that Brexit has been affected. Airtel runs throughout 18 nations in Africa and South Asia with a mobile network that covers over two billion individuals.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The solution comes on top of the technology firm’s array of offerings to bolster the GST compliance experience for companies in the country, according to a Wednesday (Sept. The nation isn’t the first to implement an eInvoice requirement as part of more widespread initiatives to cut reduce financial crime. 16) announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Among the most recent headlines, in Asia this past week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the National Bank of Cambodia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), that Business Times said will boost partnerships on FinTech and financial services innovation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The governor of the Bank of England said he doesn’t think new financial technologies (FinTechs) will cause central banks to be obsolete. The fact is that the financial system … is the most heavily regulated part of the economy. He said that regulation is an important aspect of the field.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given this structure, one concern might be whether covered companies may find themselves subject to significant differences in interpretation of state and federal laws and regulations, depending on which state is leading an exam.

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APRIL 30, 2018

National and regional interests have helped to determine the shape of financial regulations in recent years, but politicians and regulators have acknowledged the need to consider the global nature of markets when constructing them. It could be good news for financial technology providers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

House of Representatives, asking the government to establish a national policy for technology. The resolution implies that bitcoin and blockchain technology are ways to help the unbanked and empower the consumer. A non-binding resolution was passed on Monday (Sept. 12) by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It also will discuss how to deal with potential problems and challenges that come from using digital financial technologies. Germany’s national central bank, the Bundesbank , is also in talks with officials in Berlin about the development of digital currency. On Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. Singapore’s financial authority said it will look to consolidate existing legislation related to payment systems, stored value facilities and remittance businesses in order to create a new combined regulatory framework.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The report , released in support of President Trump’s call to regulate the U.S. financial system around a set of core principles, offered guidance and recommendations that have long bounced around the FinTech space, and which no doubt already command the support of many executives. Additionally, the report calls upon the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2020

Danyal Bayaz, a Green member of parliament, told the Financial Times he blamed the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority ( BaFin ), Germany’s financial regulator, for the mess. BaFin failed to take the many warnings over irregularities at Wirecard seriously for way too long,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Facebook, I believe, has made quite broad rounds around the world with regulators, supervisors and lots of people to discuss their plans and that certainly includes us,” Powell said on Wednesday (June 19), according to CNBC. Powell added that the Fed meets “with a broad range of financial sector firms all the time on financial technology.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

China’s banking regulator is introducing stricter requirements on banks and insurance institutions that provide supply chain financial solutions in an effort to curb fraud, according to China Daily reports last week. Regulators Step In. Technology, he said, is key to that endeavor. “As

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

The small nation is making a big push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. Singapore’s financial authority said it will look to consolidate exiting legislation related to payment systems, stored value facilities and remittance businesses in order to create a new combined regulatory framework.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . But as with any nascent payments technology, the bad guys are always lurking – especially with cryptos, where anonymity is prized.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. Between $800 billion and $2 trillion USD is laundered each year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

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. Such profiles ensure FIs comply with current regulations and AML standards.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 31, 2016

(The Paypers) The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a framework for how it would approach financial technology regulation, ahead of the decision to issue or not a national charter for fintech firms.

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The Paypers

AUGUST 2, 2018

(The Paypers) US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has announced it would start accepting national charter applications from financial technology companies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

It seems governments are a bit more open to distributed ledger technology (DLT), though that doesn’t mean blockchain companies get a free pass with regulators. government to explore the potential of blockchain, proving the Feds haven’t written the technology off. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton spoke Monday (Jan. securities bar.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 20, 2017

In Madden , the Second Circuit ruled that a company that purchases loans from a national bank could not charge the same rate of interest on the loan that Section 85 of the National Bank Act allows the national bank to charge. As Alan demonstrates in his article, there is clear OCC and U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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American Banker

APRIL 18, 2016

Several Democratic senators are calling for the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether financial technology companies are properly regulated.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

She continued, “Many national payment systems are benefitting from considerable innovation and change,” adding that cross-border payments “totaled 1.8 There is significant room for improvement in the cross-border payments space,” said Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada’s senior special director of financial technology, in another statement.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Section 29 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and FDIC regulations restrict the acceptance of deposits by IDIs that are less than well capitalized from a “deposit broker.” The term “deposit broker” is defined by Section 29 and the FDIC’s implementing regulations (12 C.F.R. Brokered Deposits. Primary Purpose Exception.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2016

Investors are worried about the decreasing value of the yuan, and “it seems that China is leading a lot of the movement,” noted Zennon Kapron, founder of financial technology consultancy Kapronasia and author of a book on bitcoin.“People People are protecting their investments [by converting yuan into bitcoin].”.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

That Order directed the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a report assessing how the entry of large technology firms and other non-banks into consumer finance markets has affected competition. The report was issued in response to President Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order on promoting competition.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The announcement by the Office of Comptroller of Currency that it will allow financial technology (fintech) companies to apply for national bank charters as way of fostering “responsible innovation” has already drawn fire from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

banking industry a significant head-start in adopting new technologies, progress has been slowed through legislative and licensing hold-ups. The small nation made a push in support of FinTech innovation by reforming its payment laws. The report explained that regulatory issues in the U.S. “While Silicon Valley offers the U.S.

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JULY 11, 2022

Consumer advocate groups and regulators have also brought forth concerns about the ramifications of BNPL existing outside of the normal credit-reporting system. Some have even gone as far as to label BNPL services as exploitative of young and lower-income people.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 21, 2022

On July 13, 2022, the House of Representatives (the “House”) adopted an amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) offered by Maxine Waters (D. FinCEN, however, does not actually conduct BSA/AML examinations of regulated businesses. It is unclear if Congress expects FinCEN to conduct these audits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

And while the continual drumbeat of announcements from various players looking to find new and inventive ways to apply distributed ledger technology to various parts of Brazil’s financial services industry has something of a tendency to stand out, digital payments and banking news in general has been coming quick and constant.

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