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Regulation, Not Fintech, Will Have the Biggest Impact on Banks

Bank Innovation

Regulation is still shaping banks’ strategic thinking, says a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit. In North America regulation was the top concern. “This year is marked by a sharp regional divergence about which rules […].

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Merchants Get Clarity Around Compliance As Global Payment Regulations Evolve

PYMNTS

Compliance with financial regulations market-to-market around the globe is increasingly automated yet relies on the same human emotion that undergirds all forms of exchange: trust. Only 20 percent of these consumers are willing to share sensitive financial in- formation with third parties, according to the study.”.

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Regions Financial says possible capital hike would be manageable

American Banker

The regional bank told analysts that it has studied how much debt it would need to raise based on an effective post-reform capital floor of 6% of risk-weighted assets, and has determined that that increase in capital would be manageable.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

PYMNTS

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

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Deep Dive: COVID-19?s Global Impact On Open Banking And Online Privacy Regulations

PYMNTS

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on daily business has generated new questions surrounding these initiatives that regulators are now scrambling to answer. and the EU. Australia and Canada.

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Financial Services Security Outcomes Study

Cisco

Every year, Cisco conducts the Security Outcomes Study (SOS), a fully anonymous survey of over 4,800 active IT, security, and privacy professionals from around the world. Of the 4,800 participants in the larger study, 589 represented firms in the financial services sector.

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Bitcoin Daily: New Data Set To Help Flag Illicit Crypto Transactions; MIT Study Finds Only 2 Pct. Unlawful

PYMNTS

The study, detailed in the paper “Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experiments with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics,” explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify illicit transactions, as well as transactions associated with money laundering, sanctions violations or terrorist financing. “On

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