Fintech / Regtech

S&P Global Ratings says Hong Kong’s approach to open banking makes it hard for third-party service providers to participate, limiting the potential of the new digital ecosystem.

The Philippine central bank has simplified the registration process for payment system operators, and created a new consolidated manual of regulations to facilitate compliance.

The ten companies will work with Australia’s big four banks to test the data-sharing ecosystem through open banking APIs in the lead up to open banking’s official launch in February.

Banks are starting to gain real business value from investments into better data governance and architecture, say Irene Liu, David Yakowitz and Catherine Lee at PwC.

Firms must establish resilience as a business-owned strategic initiative, and be willing to prioritise business resilience over efficiency in some cases, says a new DTCC whitepaper.

Financial institutions in India are known to be giving fintech firms and institutional agents direct access to data from credit bureaus, without customer consent.

The paper makes the case for a "embedded supervision", a regulatory framework that automates compliance monitoring using the information in a distributed ledger.

Tencent Credit and Alibaba’s Sesame Credit hold more customer data than any of their online lending peers, but they are not providing the data to the national credit database.

FSC chairman Eun Sung-soo told fintech executives that a 300 billion won fund will be set up to invest in the sector and regulations will be eased to promote fintech development.

The Hub will foster collaboration between central banks and scale up the application of innovative technologies globally, says the HKMA’s Norman Chan.