FinTech Global Regulatory Round-up – w/e 22 January 2021

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published the work programme for 2021/22 for its Innovation Hub, which will focus on the following six themes:

• supervisory technology (SupTech) and regulatory technology (RegTech);
• next-generation financial market infrastructures (FMIs);
• central bank digital currencies (CBDCs);
• open finance;
• green finance; and
• cyber security.

The Innovation Hub’s projects will be distributed across the three existing Hub Centres in Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland, and new locations in Europe and North America. [22 Jan 2021]

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has released its work programme for 2021, which includes items such as:

• international cooperation and coordination related to Covid-19;
• non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI);
• central counterparty (CCP) resilience, recovery and resolvability;
• cross-border payments;
• climate change and sustainable finance;
• interest rate benchmarks; and
• cyber and operational…