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Israeli banking reforms to facilitate fintech growth

Israeli banking authorities are advance reforms to open Israel’s credit market and render it much more competitive.
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Israeli took an important step on fintech reform in June, opening the Israeli credit market to significant competition.

One of the problems facing the Israeli financial market is that just four or five banks control the entire system. The government has spent the last two decades trying to limit their control of the system. Fintech, which uses the latest technologies to transfer and synchronize data, is one reform target.

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