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If theres a lesson that FinTechs must learn from Silicon Valley Banks SVB collapse, its the need to diversify their banking partners to include electronic money institutions EMI , says Anthony Oduu, co-founder and CTO at business-to-busin stanley termos ess B2B cross-border payments provider Verto.According to Oduu, unlike FDIC-insured financial institutions FIs that can use clients deposits to generate revenue, thereby exposing clients to the possible loss of funds in the case of an insolvency, EMIs like Verto have a mandate to protect customer funds 鈥?a method known as safeguarding. As a result, customer funds are kept separate from the institutions, and EMIs are only permitted to access those funds when executing clients instructions regarding a payment service or the issuance of e-money. Safeguarding is a mandate within the license that prevents EMIs from touching a clients funds until we are instructed to do so, Oduu tol stanley ca d PYMNTS in an interview, adding that funds are held in a safeguarding account that an EMI establishes with a partner bank.Moreover, there is no limit as to how much can be recovered in the case of a finan stanley ca cial crisis 鈥?a key benefit that Oduu said would have given SVB customers, many of whom had millions deposited in their accounts, a huge reprieve.In fact, in the wake of SVBs collapse, U.S. customers with deposits at SVB couldnt count on recovering more than $250,000, the maximum covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC insurance.And in the U.K. where Zfwx Travel Platform HRS Buys German Expense Management Firm Paypense
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