Speaking at the Treasury's International Fintech conference in London this week, Jenkins explained how 18 months ago he predicted Uber moments that will begin to transform financial services; he now sees a lot of these moments beginning to happen with branch traffic down 50% in the UK in the last few years and Scandinavian countries beginning to look at going completely cashless; he also pointed out that new technologies like distributed ledger, machine learning and AI are becoming more cost effective; his new firm 10X Future Technologies has created a new banking system where you are able to build in this new technology in a seamless way. Source
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Randall Quarles, vice chairman for supervision at the Federal Reserve made recent comments about taking a fresh look at regulations; He stated, “History has shown us that, it’s not just a question of where has the risk that we knew moved, but what new risks are developing? I think that in the regulated area … we ought to be looking at what the implications of the growth of fintech ... I think we ought to be looking at cyber, obviously.” Source
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