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RegTech: How investment trends are impacting the industry—and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator

Accenture

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. We think about RegTech as technology that lowers the “cost” (technical, physical, monetary) of regulation by using technology. Regulators have a key role to play, too. Now—what does RegTech mean?

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RegTech: How investment trends are impacting the industry—and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator

Accenture

I wanted to explore how investment trends in this area are impacting the industry and how the ecosystem can work with the regulator. We think about RegTech as technology that lowers the “cost” (technical, physical, monetary) of regulation by using technology. Regulators have a key role to play, too. Now—what does RegTech mean?

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World Bank, IMF Debut Private Blockchain And ‘Quasi-Cryptocurrency’

PYMNTS

This is forcing central banks, regulators and financial institutions to recognize a growing knowledge gap between the legislators, policymakers, economists and the technology. This project begins to bridge that gap and form a strong knowledge base of the technology among IMF and World Bank staff,” said a statement from the IMF.

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

PYMNTS

And that fact — shared by Cognito CEO Alain Meier during a recent PYMNTS interview centered around changes in digital ID – serves to show the weakness of knowledge-based authentication. “We Meier said there is serious pressure to move further away from knowledge-based authentication methods and even Social Security numbers.

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Authenticating Combines Verification Services To Prevent Identity Fraud

PYMNTS

But with education, employment, criminal and other records being heavily regulated and difficult to gather, verifying consumers can be a time-consuming and expensive process. According to a 2017 report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there have been $1.4

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Redwood Bank Teams Up With Insignis Cash Solutions

PYMNTS

In other small business banking news , rising Know Your Customer (KYC) and other risk mitigation regulations have pushed the ecosphere into a closer look at digital identity technology, a market that is expected to hit $12.8 billion in valuation by 2024.

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Recap of Money 20/20 USA 2023 and 10 Banking Thoughts

South State Correspondent

As can be seen, the conference largely revolved around payments, artificial intelligence, fintech partnerships/management, regulation, and fraud/identity in its various forms. Few speakers or vendors had solutions for how banks are going to efficiently index, manage, and optimize their knowledge base, not to mention customer data.