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These new centers will expand our reach significantly and help create a global force for FinTech innovation,” he said, according to a press release. BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens called the move “an investment in the future of central banking and the financial system.”.
“Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has identified Blockchain Technology as one of the important research areas having application potential in different domains such as Governance, Banking & Finance, CyberSecurity and so on,” wrote Sanjay Dhotre.
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Ron Plesco, principal of CyberSecurity, and Bob Ruark, principal of Banking and Financial Services Strategy and KPMG’s FinTech leader in the U.S. You need layers of security,” he noted. As well, the people responsible for ID and access security should work with the people responsible for fraud prevention, and vice versa.
The country takes privacy, particularly financial privacy, seriously, passing its CyberSecurity Law in 2016, followed by the Personal Information Security Specifications in 2018 and the MLPS 2.0 Banks, businesses and FinTechs will need to make sure they fully understand these changes as open banking expands.
That could mean collaborating with partners like Sayata, which works with insurers to enhance their risk analysis processes, or other FinTechs that can provide the kinds of technologies needed. But as the market evolves, Lifshitz noted that insurers will have to look beyond technology to adequately analyze their customers’ risk levels.
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