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JULY 22, 2020

And in bank regulation, open banking is developing at a fast clip in Brazil, while the pandemic may have sped up the digital banking shift in many markets beyond the region. All this, Today in Data. Data: . 1,495: Sale price of Liteboxer’s connected fitness equipment. 23%: Share of U.S.

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JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Opportunity, he noted, abounds. Meeting A Dynamic Market .

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JULY 10, 2020

For several years, while state-level legalization has expanded, access to traditional banks remains an issue thanks to their status as federally regulated entities. It’s why, said Muller, payment innovators in the cannabis market must keep a macro view while targeting micro use-cases and user populations.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Critics say that stringent data protection laws like the EU’s could hinder innovation around AI, but EU officials say they want to harmonize and streamline rules in the region. Facial recognition is among the things the EU might look at regulating. But the paper will also promote European values like privacy.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Regulators from around the world are teaming up to create a blueprint for a global FinTech “sandbox.”. Later this week we start work with interested regulators, including colleagues across Europe, the U.S. Later this week we start work with interested regulators, including colleagues across Europe, the U.S.

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MAY 22, 2018

A bill that would give regional banks a break on regulation was before the U.S. Groshans said that such financial institutions as Zions, Regions Financial, Citizens Financial, Huntington, American Express and Keycorp would benefit from the law. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act , S.

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MAY 24, 2019

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector companies that have developed tech to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the organization said in a release. FinCEN expects to hold events in the Washington, D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The bumpy road cryptos face under scrutiny from regulators (we’re looking at you, Libra ) was a springboard into a larger discussion between Zac Cohen, general manager at Trulioo , and Karen Webster on the challenges FIs and others face when deploying new technologies. Complications arise when financial activity is so far-flung, he added.

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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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JUNE 29, 2017

The region – and in particular large, fast-growing economies such as China – has proved to be a fertile breeding ground for innovation for the sector. ” One of the key reasons for this is a much more positive regulatory environment, which is now working to stimulate payment innovation rather than stifle it. .”

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2016

All of this has occurred as the company has continued to expand the pilot phase of its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative, thus far signing on dozens of major financial institutions to an effort aimed at streamlining cross-border payments. Region Stacy Rosenthal didn’t speak directly of Ripple’s swipes.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

This strategic acquisition allows Visa to offer a more comprehensive business solution to our corporate clients that is innovative, global, highly configurable and intuitive for their employees.”. We keep seeing firms wanting to go faster and move to scale, and really needing to be able to collect and process payments in new regions.”.

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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. Similarities To The EU.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ayoub Jemail has been assigned the role of general manager of business development for the region, the company stated in the announcement on its website. The company stated that it is expanding in the region, seeking new business and also looking to provide more support for existing customers, such as Mashreq Bank.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Merchants and customers are now transacting under PSD2 and GDPR in the European Union (EU) — regulations that allow a greater window into how customer data is being used. While these regulations are aimed at increasing consumer trust by allowing them more transparency, many consumers in the region are still adjusting.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

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. The EU is no longer the only region looking to upgrade its data and financial protection legislation. and Turkey.

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MARCH 27, 2020

While the advancement of open banking regulations may be seeing a small skip due to the spread of the coronavirus , many countries saw business and typical banking operations halted right after deciding upon new online privacy rules. European Union and other regions currently fighting the pande mic. Security .

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JANUARY 31, 2020

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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AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. By 2009, A&P had shrunk in size and became a modestly sized regional chain. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. Lower prices. By 2015, it had closed its doors. percent to 2.7

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Open Banking’s European success has kicked off interest in similar regulations worldwide, most notably in China, India and Singapore, where digital banking’s popularity among general consumers is rapidly rising. Numerous regions then announced internal deadlines for compliance that often diverged from their neighbors’ deadlines.

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JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. Both banks and regulators are re-examining how exactly SCA will affect the financial ecosystem.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. Regulators the world over are beginning to take a closer look at the alternative and marketplace lending business model.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Many in the banking industry have recently highlighted Africa as a part of the world that has huge untapped potential for the development of innovative financial services products. Keeping up with the pace of innovation. Tanzania, for example, has permitted this for three years. However, other nations still ban the practice.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Chaves also said the company will earmark a percentage of the proceeds to accelerate financial inclusion in the region. Its digital ecosystem operates as an integrated regional platform that enables businesses and individuals to trade products and services. MercadoLibre’s bonds started trading on Jan.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Players in the sharing economy must contend with an increasingly complex online payments ecosystem as they move into new regions and attract participants to their platforms. Fraud, Payment Regulations Are Affecting Seamless Payments. This requires payment innovation that matches both owners’ and renters’ market-specific needs.

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MARCH 7, 2023

Home Blog FICO Responsible AI: Are European Firms Ready for the Regulators? There are significant changes coming in Europe, which highlight getting a handle on responsible AI use, with the banking and financial services sector among those that will be most impacted by increasing regulation.

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MARCH 2, 2018

The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchanges currently operating in Japan will soon form a self-regulating body, after a $530 million heist of digital coins in the region led to investor concerns, Reuters reported today.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton , who has taken the lead on the overhaul of its digital rules, told the Financial Times (FT) the proposals would prohibit large tech companies from a region. Breton said regulators in Brussels are preparing a list of activities that tech companies would be required to eliminate.

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MAY 16, 2020

“A central entity may be a central bank which regulates a monetary supply,” the company wrote. “A A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation. A central entity may be associated with a government of such a region.”.

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JUNE 5, 2020

FIs and their regulators are clinging to that vision even as they work to answer complicated questions brought about by the virus surrounding online payments, security and data privacy. Regulators are addressing what data can be shared compliantly under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for example. EU and U.K.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how legacy banks are approaching innovation among the rising tide of challenger banks and smaller FinTech startups, as well as how they’re approaching authentication and security as customers continue to demand more convenience and speed. About the Tracker.

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MARCH 31, 2020

With the investment, MatchMove, which is also based in Singapore, will be able to extend its “banking-as-a-service” wallet capability to Shopmatic’s ecosystem spanning over 435,000 eCommerce small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and individual entrepreneurs across the region.

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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. The banks have also agreed to share data on emerging markets.

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MARCH 25, 2019

The Netherlands, for instance, only recently implemented it because it needed to make sure that consumers’ personal data will remain protected, as payments in the region are mostly digital. The country was unenthused, she said, adding that the new PSD2 law is viewed as “a way of regulating activity that is in the market already.”.

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MAY 11, 2017

rehabilitation and growth has lagged behind the rest of the world, youth unemployment in the region continues to grow, political unrest is destabilising the continent, the progressive socio-economic pledge of Europe is being challenged and vitally, Europe has failed to develop any new corporate global powers for the digital age.

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