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Fintech faces new compliance and enforcement challenges

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Published on: 15 August 2022
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Table of contents

  • What are the key Financial crime risks facing payments and crypto-assets firms?
  • What are the rules, and how are they changing?
  • What are the key regulatory enforcement risks for firms?
  • The big trade-off: user experience, risk management and data privacy

Article summary

Law360, Expert analysis: While firms aim to provide an enhanced user experience in the payments and crypto-assets sectors, ensuring preventive measures against financial crime means that a trade-off is unavoidable, as is a shift toward direct regulation of technology and fintech firms, say Sara George and Max Savoie at Sidley.

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