Technology is redefining financial services-including the way actors make and settle payments, raise capital, extend loans, and memorialize increasingly complex relationships. At the same time, new innovations-from cryptocurrencies to marketplace lending, robo-advising, and mobile payments-are creating novel regulatory issues for anti-money laundering requirements and cybersecurity. This Nutshell provides an overview of some the key developments reshaping finance-and the rules deployed to oversee them.

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