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Data Rights In Finance: Key Public Policy Questions and Answers
Financial sector policymakers are increasingly focused on data rights, touching on such questions as: who owns financial data, what rights do various parties have to use that data and in which ways, and what privacy rights do individuals have.
tags: Fintech Data Regulation
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LedgerX Reveals Bid to Beat Bakkt to Physical Bitcoin Futures Launch
LedgerX has filed for a designated contract market license, which would allow it to offer physically-settled bitcoin futures products to its customers.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets Bitcoin Futures
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S. Korea’s financial industry to adopt open banking to nurture fintech service market
South Korea’s financial industry will step forward to introduce a general-use digital financial transaction protocol this year so that fintech (financial technology) companies can share financial data and build innovative business models.
tags: Fintech OpenBanking
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The Regulation Of Crypto-Asset Platforms – Fin Tech – Canada
The Regulators have noted that there are no Platforms recognized as exchanges (and therefore regulated as such) in Canada. The consultation with stakeholders aims to benefit the trading public (by way of regulation and improved security over their crypto-assets), and the Platforms themselves, which have indicated such regulation would assist with consumer confidence as the Platforms seek to expand their operations.
tags: Fintech Regulation Canada
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Lessons from IMF/WB Experimentation with Crypto-AssetsTechnology (Video)
Spring Meetings session on the IMF/WB Learning Coin project.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets
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Should Central Banks issue Digital Currencies? (Video)
Spring Meetings Session on the “Whys” of central bank digital currency.
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CBDC for Financial Inclusion – Design Considerations (Video)
IMF/WB Spring Meetings Fintech Workshop on central bank digital currency design considerations.
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New financial products launch globally as crypto turns ‘hot’ again
A host of new crypto financial products are launching, just in time to potentially benefit from the renewed interest in bitcoin and other cryptographic assets.
tags: CryptoAssets ETFs Fintech
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Vast majority of endowment funds testing crypto investments
A survey conducted by Global Custodian, The TRADE Crypto and BitGo has shown that endowments are investing in crypto-assets and funds, with 94% stating they invested either directly or through a fund in 2018.
tags: Fintech CryptoAssets
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Privacy risks dash funds’ alternative data dreams
Alternative data could be a rich source of alpha, but most asset managers are handling it more like high grade explosives due to the risk of privacy violations.
FinTech 04/15/2019
