BNPL: The now and the later
How can the BNPL industry do more to protect consumers and help the world we live in?
Regulation
The law of unintended consequences
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about programmable money. And this stuff scares me.
CFTC hits Tether with $41m fine for ‘misleading’ stablecoin claims
US regulator says Tether only backed by reserves for six and a half months between 2016 and 2018.
Goldman Sachs gets green light for total ownership of Chinese venture
Goldman becomes the second US bank to buy out its Chinese mainland joint venture partner.
Why PostgreSQL meets fintech database demands
How to get the best out of your database and to ensure your PostgreSQL deployment is stable, secure, and performant.
Sibos 2021: Mark Carney urges collective action on climate change
Former governor of the Bank of England gave an optimistic closing keynote at Sibos 2021.
Sibos 2021: Banks must work together to make the most of CBDCs, says panel
Panel says interoperability of CBDCs is necessary to avoid inefficiencies and poor outcomes.
Sibos 2021: ISO 20022 “isn’t the solution to all your problems”, says panel
Payments panel at industry conference cautions sector about incoming standard.
VoxSmart acquires speech recognition platform GreenKey
Firm aims to bolster its communications surveillance offering for financial institutions.
Daily News at Sibos 2021
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Coastal Community Bank picks Finzly to modernise payments processes
Coastal Community Bank has more than $2 billion in assets under management.
Privacy-focused data collaboration platform Duality raises $30m
Duality will invest further in privacy-preserving machine learning technologies.
Fraud prevention platform Alloy hits unicorn status with $100m investment
Investment will go towards building out an evolving customer identity profile offering.
Monzo withdraws US licence application after two years of negotiation
UK challenger bank to refocus its business after aborted US entry.
UK sanctions enforcement: fintech in the spotlight
Fintechs cannot afford to neglect sanctions compliance and should ensure they understand their obligations.
Bahrain’s Bank ABC taps Fenergo for client management solution
Bank ABC operates across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Aberdeen Report: Customer operations in financial services – how to maximise client value and optimise efficiency
The findings from the survey of 218 financial firms, highlighting best in class customer operation programmes.
Leveraging best practice to maximise the benefits of cloud technology
Firms must assess and refine their cloud adoption strategy to ensure regulatory compliance and overall resiliency.
Open banking’s unstoppable momentum
Regulation directives continue to push the financial industry towards a more open model.
ICYMI funding round-up: TomoCredit, Lightyear, X-Margin, Coinfirm & more
More funding deals you may have missed during a busy week of news.
Elizabeth Warren calls on Fed to break up Wells Fargo
Senator cites the bank’s “longstanding ungovernable behaviour”.
White paper: Five key qualities of a successful AML compliance programme
An effective AML compliance programme will protect your company from regulatory fines and prosecution.
Mastercard acquires blockchain security start-up CipherTrace
Payments giant aims to integrate CipherTrace’s crypto security and fraud detection capabilities.
SEC threatens suit over Coinbase crypto lending product
Coinbase’s CEO and chief legal officer admonish US markets regulator over lack of clarity.
How can identity security help solve the compliance conundrum?
Evolving tech has led to a growing number of cyber threats for FIs, as well as more compliance requirements.
Risk as an opportunity: fintech’s gold standard
How can fintechs continue to grow while also meeting increasingly stringent regulatory requirements?
Open banking: a new global standard?
How are different countries actually approaching open banking adoption?
Is a change of approach required to benefit from cloud services as critical infrastructure?
It’s a fine balancing exercise of facilitating and encouraging innovation and adoption of cloud integrated services.
Circle announces plans to become a national digital currency bank
The firm says it will operate under the supervision of US financial regulators.
Plaid agrees $58m settlement over data privacy class action
The plaintiffs alleged Plaid stored and used bank account information without consent.
Extended deadline announced for Banking Tech Awards 2021
The new nomination deadline for the Banking Tech Awards 2021 is 20 August.
It’s a matter of comms | Episode 9 | Demystifying scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions
What are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and how can businesses start recording and reporting on them?
Perpetual KYC and the move away from periodic reviews
Continuously monitoring customer information using AI could have advantages for banks and fintechs.
UBS pays $8m to settle SEC compliance charges
US regulator found failings in the bank’s handling of exchange-traded products.
Robinhood plans $35bn IPO as crypto arm predicts $30m probe settlement
Retail trading app expects to sell shares between $38 and $42.
Is regtech living up to expectations? (And if not, why not?)
Until regtech is embedded into the core processes of wealth management, its potential remains constrained.
White House backs US open banking reform
The Biden Administration is looking to tackle the slow progress of open banking in the US.
FINRA orders Robinhood to pay $70m penalty for “false and misleading information”
The sanction is the largest financial penalty issued by the regulator.
Open Banking Expo Canada meet-ups launch virtually this June
Free and open to banks, credit unions, fintechs, regulators, Big Techs, and other industry players.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 13 | The terror of technological debt
Vincent Kilcoyne, executive vice president at SmartStream, joins us on our What the Fintech? podcast.
