PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

10), Craig Moore, CEO of business financing platform Beehive , not only made the case for more P2P lending in the Middle East (the company is based in the United Arab Emirates), but also gave a larger view of the FinTech situation in that region as a new decade dawns. But in a new PYMNTS interview on Tuesday (Dec. In fact, the U.K.’s

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Chris Skinner

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It shows how important FinTech is when major financial centres vie for focus. London has been leading the charge to be the FinTech capital of the world, but many other cities are nipping at their toes. So I was intrigued to see Hong Kong issue their FinTech strategy today. Does this matter?

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MAY 22, 2020

The think tank’s founding members encompass financiers, policymakers, regulators and technologists in addition to select firms such as Cypherium. In other news, leading political advisers in China have suggested a regional cryptocurrency, Coindesk reported.

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MAY 22, 2020

The think tank’s founding members encompass financiers, policymakers, regulators and technologists in addition to select firms such as Cypherium. In other news, leading political advisers in China have suggested a regional cryptocurrency, Coindesk reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. Shopmatic said in an announcement that it would “leverage the MatchMove reach and network to originate new customers as well as accelerate our platform growth across the region.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Cross-border FinTech efforts have seen increasing participation from central banks and monetary authorities. The MOU dictates that the banks will train FinTech startups with an eye on cross-border transactions. The Fed And FinTech Firms. Separately, in India, API infrastructure firm Setu said last week that it had raised $3.5

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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). As previously reported, Saudi Arabia has trained sights on FinTech as well, specifically in Riyadh.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

China’s community banks are raising new fears over the health of the industry after auditor Ernst & Young resigned from its work with regional bank Bank of Jinzhou. Last month, the government took control of a struggling regional bank, Baoshang Bank, marking the first such event in more than two decades.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The story he told PYMNTS was one of FinTech’s global impact, and how the contributions of SMBs are being recognized for their importance. A recent study on the region showed that almost 65 percent of entrepreneurs in the UAE think banking is their biggest challenge. However, that’s changing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

The movement toward linkups between traditional financial institutions (FI) and FinTech firms seems an inexorable one — in the cross-selling of corporate services into consumer bases that embrace individuals and, typically, small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, looking elsewhere beyond U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2016

Whether it is equity or debt platforms, the trend is very much alive with regional variations and adapting regulations. Crowdfunding is real.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

As FinTechs eye growth, and look to gain scale by providing more “mainstream” financial services, might those plans hit a speed bump when it comes to the infrastructure needed to bring products to the masses? As has been reported, the regulators include the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Open banking is often associated with the European Union (EU) almost by default as the region pushes the envelope further on regulation than anywhere, partly to encourage — but also to keep up with — imaginative FinTech innovators going to market throughout the Eurozone. FinTechs Flourishing. Similarities To The EU.

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The Paypers

JULY 14, 2022

Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan, SimpliFi , and card processor and payment services provider licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain, Infinios , have partnered to support the growing fintech ecosystem in the MENA region.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the major themes will be regional integration, which is another way of saying the development of cross-border markets. In insurance, the continued development of regional markets. It’s 2015, the mid-point of the decade and a good time to start looking at major trends in Asian financial services over the next five to ten years.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. There were 441 FinTechs operating in Mexico in 2019, a 14 percent increase from 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Collaboration amid competition has been a hallmark of the financial services space, as traditional financial institutions (FIs) join forces with FinTech startups. The group, to be known as Alloy Labs Alliance, according to a press release , is being managed by FinTech Forge. Guidelines From The UK. and MarketInvoice.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The partnership will enable Bithumb to further expand in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The company noted that it still needs to gain approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which issued regulations for crypto exchanges last summer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

And, according to Cipher , a data insights firm based in the United Kingdom, in FinTech, the patent race is one that is seeing some clear winners, among them large tech firms, with traditional banks trailing. IBM has just under 24,000 FinTech patents in its roster. Moving Beyond the UK. Beyond the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For FinTech firms, doing the chasing all on their own is a losing proposition. SaaS, the distribution model where providers offer a central location for their customers, can offer FinTech firms a way out of inefficient processes, say some supporters. FinTech firms can browse and research what they need and pick it up on the fly.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

Banks and FinTechs in the European Union have settled into a period of harmony with the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). These financial institutions ( FIs) have recognized how this regulation has affected the EU financial ecosystem, and they have passed that familiarity onto the merchants and payment providers that work with them.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. Nordic bank-backed initiative P27 was launched to update the region’s aging infrastructure with a platform that enables real-time payments from different markets. Deep Dive: The Road to Real-Time Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

s exit from the bloc next year, the EU’s executive is set to propose a draft law aimed at boosting the FinTech market throughout the region. The proposed law would bypass the mixture of regulatory approaches FinTech firms currently have to deal with, as well as review how firms handle cybersecurity and cyber threats.

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Bobsguide

MAY 29, 2019

Payments markets are changing drastically, forced by the hand of national and regional regulators as well as a technological advances driving at an incredible pace. Banks and other financial institutions are sitting up to take note. Here, bobsguide speaks with Mohammed Kateeb, group chairman and.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mastercard is teaming up with FinTech startup Juvo to help the “underbanked” in Latin America and the Caribbean to build credit histories so they can engage in a wider range of financial services. Juvo was a participant in Mastercard’s FinTech startup program, Start Path.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This was a big year for fintech, with new regulations, new startups, and new technologies displayed across events like Sibos and Money20/20, making it clear that the progress of fintech can’t really be stopped. It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2016. But how will it continue? That’s the real Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Scandal-plagued German FinTech pioneer Wirecard counted among its payments processing clients an online casino that laundered money for an arm of “one of Europe’s most dangerous mafia organizations,” the Financial Times reported on Monday (August 3). ‘Ndrangheta operates from the Calabria region in Southern Italy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

Three months in, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation still stymies some firms seeking to comply with new rules and regulations governing data protection and privacy. Despite direct exposure to the region, they remain unaware of the GDPR requirements. FinTech Firms Eye Bank Charters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

In Latin America, such a company exists in the form of MercadoLibre , a triple-threat regional financial powerhouse based in Argentina. It is one of the region’s fastest-growing companies, having just turned in a stellar first quarter in a region that has more complexities than any of its northern neighbors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said this past week that it is linking up with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, eyeing a regulatory sandbox for FinTech firms. has lagged behind other regions (notably Europe, and, for example, the U.K.) As noted at the time, the U.S. in sandbox development.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an impact on open banking developments worldwide as regulators, financial institutions (FIs) and businesses set their sights on helping their current customers rather than future innovations. where regulators have been workshopping potential rules for several years. Seventy percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

FinTech startups and big tech may provide competition for established banks that have bad loans on the books, The European Banking Authority (EBA) said on Tuesday (July 3). And, while London has served as Europe’s primary FinTech center, Brexit could change that: The U.K.’s s exit from the bloc next year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Insurance provider Chubb has rolled out a new insurance partnership with digital banking services FinTech Revolut , according to a press release. Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Earlier this month, Revolut applied for a banking license from the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018 that their best strategy to remain competitive in today’s financial services landscape is often to collaborate with (not against) those FinTech firms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The FinTech company is most renowned for its XRP digital currency, CNBC reported. He noted that other regions have given similar affirmations. A “security” designation could put XRP under stringent new regulations. What you see in the U.K. is a clear taxonomy, and the U.K.’s What you see in the U.K.

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