On March 23, 2017, the European Commission ("EC") published a Consultation Document entitled "FinTech: A More Competitive and Innovative European Financial Sector." The Consultation Document seeks comments regarding the development and regulation of novel financial technologies, including distributed ledger technology ("DLT" or "blockchain"), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence ("AI"). The EC hopes to obtain feedback from both financial services providers and consumers that will assist it in developing an appropriate regulatory framework for FinTech. It explains, in the Consultation Document, that "appropriate policies on important issues, such as access to technology, data standardisation and security, personal data protection and data management, need to be put in place," to account for new innovative financial technologies.
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