EBA warns of wide differences in fintech regulation
31% of European fintech firms are completely unregulated, survey finds
Major differences exist between the way Europe’s various national financial regulators treat financial technology (fintech) firms, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has found.
The largest proportion of firms surveyed in the EBA’s large-scale “mapping exercise” of Europe’s fintech companies, released on August 4, are not subject to any regulation regime at all.
The mapping exercise was set out
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