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In this episode, we continued our ongoing series on fintech in Asia by interviewing Simone di Castri, the Managing Director of the RegTech for Regulators Accelerator (R\\xb2A).\\xa0 The mission of R\\xb2A is to enhance the capacity of financial authorities by harnessing innovative technologies and accelerating promising RegTech (regulatory technology) solutions.

Simone guided us through some of the biggest challenges facing financial authorities, and what technological solutions R\\xb2A has been developing to help regulators in emerging markets. R\\xb2A has so far been focused on enhancing the capabilities of financial authorities in Mexico and the Philippines to better understand markets and customer needs in data-rich environments. Some of our key takeaways include:

A critical challenge in banking supervision is the time and resources required to manage and validate data collected from financial institutions; R\\xb2A is solving this using APIs that connect the central bank to financial institutions.

• In the Philippines, R\\xb2A is prototyping a smartphone chat bot powered by machine learning that will enable any citizen to escalate a problem with their financial provider to the consumer protection team at the central bank.
• Emerging and frontier markets are a natural fit for these new tools and techniques given the importance they place on financial inclusion and resource constraints that encourage innovation.

Fast-moving fintech actors have helped spur financial authorities to be more proactive in adopting new technologies in oversight and regulation.

The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or of the Federal Reserve System.