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“Solve infrastructure gap in Asia to create a market bigger than US”

Vladislav Solodkiy, managing partner, Life.SREDA, talks about key issues and challenges to financial technology growth in Asia and existing infrastructure gaps that hinder the scaling of fintech in the region.

     
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"Regulators have ‘upped their game’ in ways that would have been considered…

Serdar Güner, director of supervision at the Dubai Financial Services Authority, in a speech during The Future of Finance, Middle East and Africa 2017, discussed how the regulator is facilitating innovation amidst the changes happening…

     
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Mystery shopping becomes an important supervisory tool in retail banking

Rapid developments and increasing competition in the retail banking landscape require greater need for closer supervision and monitoring from industry regulators to protect the rights of the consumers.

     
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The taming of the Chinese insurance industry

China’s insurance industry is undergoing transformation as the authorities try to reign in the speculative practices of some players.

     
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Hard and fast rules

With more than 70% of Southeast Asia being unbanked, fintech possesses tremendous potential to widen financial inclusion and spur economies. Advances in the industry mean more people and companies have the ability to save, borrow and transact.…

     
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Basel capital showdown pits US against Europe

Basel regulators are trying to finalise changes on how to calculate banks’ risky assets. But US and Europe are at loggerheads about what these should look like. After postponing a decision in January, and failing to reach a conclusion in…

     
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The rise of APIs in retail banking

Financial institutions are starting to use APIs to create important linkages between their products and services and their customers and important third party value providers. Early movers to stand to gain mindshare of both customers and…

     
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New regulation to drive innovation in payments

On 13th January 2018, the new European Directive on Payment Services “(EU) 2015/2366” comes into application. With just under a year to go, financial services providers are gearing up for change. What will be ‘PSD2’‘s immediate effect and…