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All Scale Ups eventually face the same challenges as they outgrow their Start Up status. How to continue acting nimbly and doing what they do best, whilst simultaneously retaining their growth curve and building trusted positions in their ecosystem? According to Willem Mosterd and Josje Fiolet, becoming and remaining a successful Scale Up relies o...
08 October 2021 /payments /regulation Sustainable compliance
Ximena Aleman Co-CEO at Prometeo
Many different verticals in the fintech landscape can benefit from open banking APIs – remittances, growth payments, and crypto. But the love story between open banking and startups is just beginning. Among the many benefits, open banking can scale startup processes and operations for onboarding, accounting, identity validation, and payments (by ...
06 October 2021 /regulation /inclusion Open Banking
As GDPR fines start to mount up, the UK is planning to tweak the legislation. What could these changes mean for businesses in the UK? Once again, UK regulators are taking advantage of Brexit to modify a key piece of EU legislation. This time the focus is on GDPR. A consultation launched by the government aims to iron out uncertainties and promote g...
06 October 2021 /regulation
The FinCEN Files revealed money laundering to be a systemic problem, but the Pandora Papers and the recent resignation by the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) chief, David Lewis, suggest a much more broken system, where regulators are barely tipping the iceberg in the fight against financial crime. The Papers also reveal a much higher power at pl...
05 October 2021 /regulation /crime Banking Regulations
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
A Centralised & Digitised Know your Customer ecosystem is quite beneficial in the new age digital economy. It helps quickly onboard customers and avoids duplicates w.r.t submission of documents. That is not all, it helps reduce acquisition costs and improves compliance. In the long term, it also helps in making KYC truly effective and rationali...
05 October 2021 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management
Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer
Historically, the space of individual Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance has always been one step ahead in terms of industry awareness and digitisation trends compared to the connected area of corporate KYC, or “know your business” (KYB) compliance. Hence, to know what’s coming for KYB, it’s worth paying attention to what’s currently happening in...
04 October 2021 /regulation /crime RegTech
Guillaume Forget Executive Vice President at Cryptomathic GmbH
On 21st September, the Swiss-based train manufacturer, Stadler, announced that it lost a €3bn contract with the Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB due to a legally impermissible electronic signature on the purchase agreement.[1] The consequences of such a failure are serious. The costs inherent to a multi-billion public tender are counted in millions a...
04 October 2021 /regulation /identity Digital Identity Management
The pandemic has changed our way of life, not least in the way we work. It has shown us that one size does not fit all when it comes to balancing work and personal lives. As we come out of numerous lockdowns, we’re not seeing a return to the “old normal”. Businesses are changing their models and continuing to experiment, and we are seeing three ...
30 September 2021 /regulation
Karen Hsu CMO at Appdome
Thanks in large part to the global pandemic, consumers are increasingly turning to mobile apps to manage their finances, payments and transactions. In fact, 58% of mobile consumers report using and downloading more mobile apps and buying more products and services on them since the COVID-19 pandemic started, according to the Appdome 2021 Global M...
30 September 2021 /security /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Adam Pogorzelski CEO at Code & Pepper
The UK is a very demanding market for everybody. Including FinTech, which must operate similarly to regular banking institutions. Both legal and technological requirements are there to protect customers’ money. Applied FinTech security standards benefit customers and FinTech organizations and please regulators. What regulations should you take ca
30 September 2021 /security /regulation Information Security
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