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New York State Department of Financial Services Challenges OCC Authority on Fintech Charters

Data Matters

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced its decision (the Fintech Charter Decision) to begin accepting applications from financial technology (fintech) companies for special purpose national bank charters. The Fintech Charter Decision is discussed in greater detail in a prior Sidley Banking and Financial Services Update.

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Open APIs: A coming of age

CGI

One of the hottest topics at this year’s Sibos conference in Geneva, Switzerland was open APIs (application programming interfaces), and how their introduction is causing concern among some financial institutions, while offering promising opportunities for early adopters. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use. Add new comment.

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Digitizing the credit management journey

CGI

A recent CGI Client Global Insights report capturing the viewpoints of executives across 14 industries and subsectors found that 77 percent in the financial services industry have a defined digital strategy. Leading financial institutions are wisely leaving the world of isolated, one-off credit transactions behind.

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The time for government blockchain proofs of concept is now

CGI

For the past two years, CGI has seen an exponential uptick in commercial sector interest in blockchain beyond just the financial services industry. See a related blog by my colleague Sean Curry titled, “ Blockchain: Should federal agencies use it? ”). Blog moderation guidelines and term of use. Tue, 05/15/2018 - 06:29.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #07 [Scam of the Week] The Turkey-Syria Earthquake

KnowBe4

Blog post with links: [link] [New PhishER Feature] Immediately Add User-Reported Email Threats to Your M365 Blocklist Now there's a super easy way to keep malicious emails away from all your users through the power of the KnowBe4 PhishER platform! Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

The New York State Department of Financial Services recently amended its annuity suitability regulation to apply a “best interest” standard in connection with both life insurance and annuity transactions with consumers. NAIC Adopts White Paper on Understanding the Market for Cannabis Insurance.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2018 National Meeting

Data Matters

The Task Force stressed that the guidance provided in the white paper will not be designed to preempt state authority but rather will assist regulators in providing greater consistency among states’ review of predictive models. The Task Force aims to complete the white paper by the fall of 2018.