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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Financial regulators in China are moving to curb the influence of Jack Ma 's Ant Group by telling it to switch focus back to its mainstay payments business while fixing issues in personal lending, wealth management and more, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. The People's Bank of China criticized Ant on Sunday (Dec.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Ant Bank, the virtual banking division of Hangzhou, China-based Ant Group , has launched banking services in Hong Kong, Fintech News reported. We set up Ant Bank with the intention of providing increasingly mature FinTech products and services to the Hong Kong market and to provide a new choice to people locally.”. billion yuan ($10.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

One of Sweden’s largest private insurers, Folksam Group , says a data breach affected one million of its clients. The firm said it discovered the breach after an internal audit and that it has reported the breach to Swedish regulators. elections or fraudsters looking to take advantage of the pandemic’s eCommerce trends.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ant Group has won the nod from China's top security regulators for its Shanghai offering, the last hurdle to clear for the $35 billion dual listing, Reuters reports. In September , Shanghai regulators approved the listing. The listing could be the largest initial public offering (IPO). Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Now is the time for bankers to engage lawmakers in how the crypto and digital asset market shapes up. Well, Gonzobankers, the smart, idealist and self-declared revolutionary crypto kids just bought themselves a future of regulation — intricate, overbearing, and frustrating regulation, and regulation that the market will now demand.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Jack Ma has seen his net worth plunge by $3 billion after the Ant Group double initial public offering (IPO) was suspended on Tuesday (Nov. 3) by Chinese regulators, according to a report from Business Insider , which quoted numbers from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. percent of Alibaba, which has a market capitalization of $775.5

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

China’s Ant Group, which owns the widely used Alipay payments app, is looking at selling its 30 percent stake in India’s Paytm as friction between the two countries grows, sources told Reuters. Reuters said Paytm, which is partly backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., Like Alipay, Paytm is a digital payments platform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

China’s Ant Group is mulling the creation of a new consumer loan unit that would allow it to continue making loans throughout the country while complying with new Chinese banking regulations. Ant Group had planned to go public for $35 billion, which would have made it the largest IPO in market history. On Tuesday (Jan.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 7, 2024

On April 26, 2024, Republic First Bank (DBA Republic Bank) was seized by state regulators and the long running bank drama came to an end. However, Republic Bank’s loan portfolio mix is not dissimilar to its peer group, and there was no credit stress in that loan portfolio. Even more stark was the bank’s securities repricing.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ant, which is backed by Alibaba, plans to list on both the Hong Kong market and on Shanghai's STAR Market in the next few weeks. Ant Group was said recently to be pondering a $280 billion minimum valuation for the double listing, a 12 percent hike from the previous amount speculated.

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JULY 15, 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union’s (EU) financial watchdog, plans to examine how German regulators handled oversight of Wirecard AG , the collapsed payments company that is facing a series of criminal allegations.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ripple , the blockchain startup, is heading up a new cryptocurrency lobbying group called Securing America’s Internet of Value Coalition. Coindesk noted that most of the members of the new lobbying group have ties to Ripple. Coindesk pointed to Coil as one example. Its founder is the former chief technology officer at Ripple.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Huobi Group has announced the official launch of a digital asset exchange in Argentina. Compliance is actually one of the biggest barriers to entry for small businesses in any highly regulated industry,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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Perficient

APRIL 2, 2021

The agencies collectively announced a request for information (RFI) to gain input from stakeholders including financial institutions, trade associations, and consumer groups. Finally, views are sought for compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including those related to consumer protection. Credit Decisions. Textual analysis.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Regulators are looking into a possible merger between Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and its potential antitrust implications for the industry, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. is marketed by them. In November, the two entities announced they were looking into making a deal with each other.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A group of senators have introduced a bill that would classify Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as a security under the law, according to a report by CNBC. The bill is called the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” and was proposed by two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps.

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JULY 16, 2018

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether don’t pose much of a risk to global financial stability at the current time, but that isn’t stopping global regulators from creating a framework to monitor risk from cryptocurrency. The move on the part of global regulators comes as the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S.

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JULY 31, 2019

s cryptocurrency market. The Block reported that the comprehensive overview is expected to follow FCA’s draft proposals released at the beginning of the year, which explained that “any token that is not a security token, or an eMoney token is unregulated.” The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued updated guidance on the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

China’s move to suspend Ant Group’s anticipated blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) likely came from the top echelon of the Chinese government, according to a report in the Financial Times. The suspension came just two days before shares of Ant Group were to go live on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets.

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MARCH 2, 2021

The final rule amends Regulation EE (Financial Institution Netting) to apply FDICIA netting provisions to certain new entities including swap dealers. The Federal Reserve is now expanding the definition of financial institutions to include: swap dealers and security-based swap dealers; 1. What is a Financial Institution?

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Investigators from the Federal Reserve carried out an inspection of Amazon ’s cloud in April as Washington looks into ways to regulate companies that provide the service. People familiar with the matter said the regulators were most interested in looking at Amazon’s resiliency and backup systems. Just last week, U.S.

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MAY 29, 2019

Reports in Reuters on Tuesday (May 28) said UBS expects its regulatory costs to remain high in the years ahead after a decade of more stringent regulations leading to heavier, more costly burdens on banks. “That has tied up enormous resources.” “Why is this so significant?

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The IPO rate for Chinese companies is the highest since Alibaba’s massive market debut in 2014, according to CNBC , citing a new report from Renaissance Capital. and China over trade and security issues. market for 2020, according to Renaissance Capital. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August. stock exchanges.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is just weeks away from filing lawsuits against the country’s biggest banks, as the regulator increases its active investigations, Reuters reported on Monday (Aug. ASIC Deputy Chair Daniel Crennan said the latest proceedings would be issued by year-end.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Ripple has responded to a lawsuit against it, saying that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s opinion that its XRP cryptocurrency is a security is false, a filing says. The SEC contests that Ripple’s digital coin counts as a security and, as such, the SEC is allowed to regulate it. The move also “threatens U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ongoing security concerns have prompted the Federal Reserve to further scrutinize big tech firms that serve the banking industry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (Nov. The Bank Service Company Act gives financial regulators the power to audit third-party vendors that offer banking services, Ashton said.

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In less than two decades, the system of market-based finance (MBF) – which involves mainly non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) providing credit to the economy through bonds rather than loans – has both mitigated and amplified the economic effects of financial crises. 1: Money market funds. Background. 3: Margin calls.

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JULY 2, 2018

Despite a regulation crackdown and other issues, investors have continued to fund cryptocurrency startups in 2018, with ICOs raising $11.8 This year’s surge comes as ICOs have faced stricter scrutiny from regulators like the U.S. This year’s surge comes as ICOs have faced stricter scrutiny from regulators like the U.S.

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Abrigo

MARCH 8, 2024

While only some of the funds for investment scams were moved with wire transactions, an average of 4%-5% of those scams were done with wires in all age groups. Fraudsters use the same sales and marketing techniques as legitimate businesses to research and target their victims. Investment scams were #1, with over $4.6

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JUNE 24, 2020

Zopa received those funds from a group linked to IAG Capital Partners, a U.S.-based Since COVID-19, non-bank lenders have been hurting as capital markets became less available and retail investors tried to withdraw their cash from the P2P sector, the Times reported. million) to become a challenger bank. based fund, and its U.K.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The world’s first ICO regulations are coming, care of Gibraltar. The rapid global proliferation of initial coin offerings has become an issue of mounting concern among regulators and central banks around the world – in particular, the growth of ICOs has fueled massive growth in the cryptocurrency market in general.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

As digital continues to be a pervasive force in nearly everyone’s daily lives, many in international government have likely begun to wonder how and if it should be regulated. Otherwise some provider could emerge… That’s an island, and from which things could be done, relevant to security, that could destroy an entire system.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. Robinhood is considering selling shares directly to its users if it opts to hold an initial public offering (IPO).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Following a complaint from Citizens Advice, Britain’s competition regulator might investigate financial service and telecom companies. The group had contended that consumers were being “ripped off” if they didn’t switch providers, Reuters reported. The charity claims that customers were being overcharged by $5.2 billion annually.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

Fair value accounting measures assets and liabilities at current market value instead of historical or amortized value. Nonetheless, with the recent collapse of sizeable regional banks, regulators, investors, analysts, accountants, and bankers are now scrutinizing the fair value of banks’ securities and loan portfolios.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent regulatory crackdowns on Ant Group, Alibaba and Tencent show that China’s former tech darlings have run afoul with all-powerful political and regulatory regime in China. Reuters quoted Ant as saying in a statement that it would establish a “rectification” working group and fully implement the government’s requirements.

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