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Chinese Official Urges RegTech Investment

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Lu Lei, Deputy Director of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, has stressed the need for greater investment in regtech to support new market developments. “In the blockchain and the internet core high-frequency trading market, the past era of conducting regular off-site inspection and on-site inspection based on financial statements’ statistics implemented by the traditional financial institutions with single business are over,” he said at the 8th Asia-Pacific Forum on Economy and Finance. “This puts the urgency of real-time regulation on the agenda, and at the same time, implementing real-time regulation will also require payment systems and regtech to support.”

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