Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 55 | Page 20

Global innovators invited to find solutions financial regulatory and supervisory challenges The Saudi G20 Presidency and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub has launched the G20 TechSprint Initiative to highlight the potential for new technologies to resolve regulatory compliance (RegTech) and supervision (SupTech) challenges. The BIS Innovation Hub, through its Singapore Centre, and the Saudi G20 Presidency have published high-priority RegTech/SupTech operational problems and invite private firms to develop innovative technological solutions. The problem statements identify challenges in regulatory reporting, analytics, monitoring and supervision and have been developed from submissions received from Financial Stability Board (FSB) member jurisdictions. The hackathon-style competition is also supported by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the (APIX) and the RegTec Accelerator (R2A). “TechSprint encapsula core principles of the Hub, which is to devel in the technology spa the functioning of the system,” said Benoît C BIS Innovation Hub. Commenting on the la Saudi G20 presidency the Saudi Arabian Mo Ahmed Alkholifey, said BIS Innovation Hub, w fintech community to effective solutions to p regulatory and superv including by supportin and supervisory respo COVID-19 pandemic. www.intelligentcio.com